# Clinical/Counselling Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinicalcounselling-psychologist/787097fe-e3f9-4969-b5a7-466da1c60233 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinicalcounselling-psychologist/787097fe-e3f9-4969-b5a7-466da1c60233.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Adult Mental Health Services - Tower Hamlets Directorate - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** Will consider offering a development post starting at Band 7 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-30T16:11:04.482Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Clapham/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychology/Psychology-v8361271 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8361271?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and inspiring HCPC Registered Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to our Mental Health Care of Older People’s Services in Bedfordshire & Luton. In line with the ELFT Trust Mission, Values and Strategy, the post holder will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality comprehensive specialist psychological service to the service users of the Older Adult Community Mental Health Teams and the Memory Assessment Services (MAS) in Bedfordshire and Luton. This includes provision of psychological and neuropsychological assessments, psychological formulations and delivery of highly specialist psychological interventions to service users in community, residential and inpatient settings. Service users seen by the post holder will include people who have experienced high levels of distress and complex mental health difficulties, and people presenting with distressed behavior associated with neurodegenerative disorders. Service users may present with a high level of risk to both themselves and sometimes to other people. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will : Provide assessment, formulation and psychological interventions. Consultation to the multi-disciplinary community team and inpatient wards in Bedford and Luton and support in the development of care plans for service users. Provide supervision to Assistant, Trainee and Clinical Associates in Psychology. Actively contribute to service development initiatives, audit and research as expected from a senior clinician in the team. With guidance from the Older People’s Psychology Lead, the post holder will liaise closely with psychologists working in other Older People’s teams in Bedfordshire and Luton to develop and maintain a high standard of professional practice across the service. We are willing to consider offering this as a development (preceptorship) post. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We expect all staff to work in line with the Trust's mission, values and strategy with a particular focus on equity. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the details of the post. ### 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 ### Knowledge **Essential** - An in depth knowledge and skills in applying clinical risk assessment and management in own and others’ clinical caseload - Able to communicate at a high level verbally and in writing highly complex, technical and sensitive information to clients, families, carers, and a range of professionals and lay people within and outside the NHS. - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. - Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in older people’s mental health services and memory clinic. - Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health. **Desirable** - Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books. ### Experience **Essential** - 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 range of care settings - Experience in providing psychological assessment and intervention for older people presenting with complex mental health difficulties. - Experience of providing teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. - Experience in working in multidisciplinary settings and representing a psychological perspective in teams and services. - Experience of coproduction with service users, carers, colleagues, stakeholders **Desirable** - Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists. - Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. - Experience in the recruitment of psychology staff. - Experience in contributing to service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services ### Personal/Other **Essential** - Enthusiasm for the field - Able to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others. - Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals. - Willing and able to travel between work sites and to community settings for the delivery of services across Bedfordshire & Luton and London. **Desirable** - Driving license, access to a vehicle and insurance for business travel. ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology - HCPC Registration **Desirable** - Relevant specialist post qualification training/ supervision in Neuropsychology and at least two additional psychological therapeutic modalities - Completed training course in supervision for doctoral psychology trainees. - Quality Improvement Training - Reflective Practice and/or working with group dynamics training. ## Documents - [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090) - [elft staff benefits (pdf, 653.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3107) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [mhcop band 8a psychologist jd (pdf, 288.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10688384) - [mhcop band 8a psychologist ps (pdf, 256.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10688383) - [elft staff benefits leaflet new (pdf, 465.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3106) ## 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.