# Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinicalforensiccounselling-psychologist/71a94f26-4923-40a5-a7c2-addf23056804 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinicalforensiccounselling-psychologist/71a94f26-4923-40a5-a7c2-addf23056804.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** HMP Wormwood Scrubs - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum including HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 15 hours per week (2 days a week) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-24T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-11T08:01:23.706Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Forensic_Counselling_Psychology/Clinical_Forensic_Counselling_Psychology-v8256062 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8256062?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will be required to support the delivery of care currently in the form of New Models of Care, enabling the service to meet the London Wide service specification standards for Prison Healthcare. The post holder will support the therapies team to ensure they work to an agreed operational policy and offer integrated triage, assessment and intervention to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems in line with the New Models of Care. To provide a qualified specialist psychology service to patients under the care of the Mental Health team and Therapies Service within the Prison. The role includes providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To provide supervision to unqualified psychology staff and to support senior staff to further develop the service. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service. ### Main duties of the job Provide specialist psychological assessments using psychometric tests, self-reports, observations, and interviews. Formulate evidence-based treatment plans for complex mental health and behavioural needs across care settings. Deliver individual, family, and group interventions, refining formulations using multiple models. Provide expert guidance and consultation to multidisciplinary teams, contributing to shared psychological frameworks and service-wide understanding. Conduct risk assessments, manage risk, and advise other staff on risk factors. Act as care coordinator under CPA when required, leading planning and reviews. Deliver clinical supervision to junior psychologists, trainees, and MDT staff. Provide consultation, training, and teaching across pre/post-qualification programs, internal teams, and external agencies. Receive regular supervision from a senior clinical psychologist while pursuing agreed specialist professional development. Communicate assessment, formulation, and treatment details in a skilled, sensitive manner to clients, families, and multidisciplinary networks, actively monitoring care progress. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see Job Description and Person Specification attachment. PERSON SPECIFICATION - GENERAL INFORMATION Job Title: Clinical/Forensic/counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist Band: 7 Department: North London Forensic Service A person specification should comprise of a list of attributes required of the role. Essential criteria are those without which, the post holder would be unable to adequately perform the job. Desirable criteria are those that may enable the candidate to perform better or require a shorter orientation period. You should not include any reference to numbers of years’ experience unless justified. ### 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 ### SKILLS AND ABILITIES **Essential** - Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. - Able to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff. **Desirable** - Skill in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working with mentally disordered offenders. - Trained in the ADOS/ADI-R - Formal training in supervision. ### EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE **Essential** - Experience of working within a forensic setting/service (ideally prison environment) either in a B7 role, or as a trainee. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence. Experience of teaching, training and providing supervision. - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence. - Experience of teaching, training and providing supervision. **Desirable** - Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. ### EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS **Essential** - Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, health psychology or counselling psychology - HCPC registration **Desirable** - Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. ## Documents - [person specification (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10569167) - [band 7 psychologist jd (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10569165) - [person specification band 7 (pdf, 40.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10569166) - [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959) ## 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.