# Clinical or Counselling Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-or-counselling-psychologist/7c437164-769e-46e6-8b3c-039331549ef7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-or-counselling-psychologist/7c437164-769e-46e6-8b3c-039331549ef7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Willerby Hill Trust Headquarters - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7, Band 8 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £64,750 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 26.25 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-13T12:45:45.708Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Trust_HQ_Willerby_Hill_Site/Humber_Teaching_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Mental_Health_Community_Psychology/Adult_Mental_Health_Community_Psychology-v8327874 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8327874?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.humber.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are offering a development 7 to 8a post to an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Haltemprice Community Mental Health Services in the East Riding. The post is for 0.7wte at band 7 reducing to 0.6wte at band 8a to remain within the financial envelope. We are looking for someone with prior experience of working within a community setting for adults with trauma, severe mental health difficulties and complex needs. This is an opportunity to share a team psychologist role with an experienced colleague, making it an ideal development environment. You will work together on the delivery of psychology and benefitting from the close support of a peer within the same team. We are also in the process of aligning our psychology delivery to a Neighbourhood Teams model and we welcome your input into that process and having a voice in shaping services. We have recently reconfigured our community services to optimise the level of support for psychology staff and support the governance of psychology provision across Hull and East Riding. To that end we have recruited two Principal Psychologists across these areas. Additional hours may be immediately available to cover maternity leave. We also welcome applicants meeting the criteria for the 8a role. ### Main duties of the job - Delivering systematic provision of highly specialist psychological assessments, joint assessments, formulations, consultation, care planning and individual group interventions within Haltemprice CMHT by providing strong effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions, and practice. - To contribute to the planning and organisation of community psychological services. - To provide clinical supervision and to offer advice and consultation on service users' psychological care and risk management to non-psychologist colleagues , and to other non-professional carers.To provide supervision to psychology assistants. - To engage in research, audit, service evaluations, service developments and quality improvement initiatives. - To provide support for the staff development including training, group supervision, team formulation sessions, reflective and to play an active role within the MDT meetings. - Staying connected to your colleagues professionally and ensuring you are supported through regular attendance at Community Psychology meetings, AMH Speciality meetings, Trust wide Psychology CPD days, CPD SIGs, group supervision, your clinical managerial and professional supervision. - Being active in your own clinical and professional development which we will actively support you with. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities With regards to this vacancy, please refer to the job description and person specification for further information. Please see additional documents for further information on the post, the development paperwork , the AMH specialty and the wider service. We would very much welcome a discussion with you about the post and contact details are within the additional document attached to the advert. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups , across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings - Experience of working with trauma cases **Desirable** - Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. - Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision ### Qualifications **Essential** - Completed post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS (or equivalent if qualified before 1996) - To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC - - Skills in providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups **Desirable** - Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area - Additional short specialist courses with demonstrable impact on practice. - Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychology practice - Completion of BPS accredited supervision course enabling supervision of doctoral trainees. ### Skills and Competencies **Essential** - Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity - Able to demonstrate effective communication skills - written and verbal - Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change **Desirable** - Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally - Be able to demonstrate leadership/project management skills at an advanced level ## Documents - [being humber (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2687) - [staff benefits (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2760) - [development paperwork (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672968) - [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2269) - [application guide & interview tips (pdf, 600.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3021) - [additional information about the role (pdf, 96.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672969) - [7 job description and person specification (pdf, 216.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672966) - [8a job description and person specification (pdf, 224.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672967) - [destination humber - allied health professionals (pdf, 11.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2512) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.