# Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-clinical-or-counselling-psychologist/685a2143-85bf-43a2-8b77-f066c7865911 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-clinical-or-counselling-psychologist/685a2143-85bf-43a2-8b77-f066c7865911.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum pro rata Inc HCA - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-26T13:34:08.018Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Psychology/Clinical_Psychology-v8036436 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8036436?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking a highly motivated and creative HCPC-registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join a developing psychology service working across adult homeless hostels in Tower Hamlets. The service is focused on supporting hostel providers to embed Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs), trauma-informed and neuro-informed care. The service takes a non-pathologising, strengths-based and community psychology approach, recognising the impact of adversity, inequality and exclusion on mental health. The role involves close partnership working with hostel staff, residents, and local organisations, with a strong emphasis on lived experience, co-production and inclusion. Within this context, the postholder will play a key role in shaping psychologically informed provision across the system. This includes supporting staff teams through consultation, reflective practice and training; contributing to service development; and improving residents’ access to psychological and therapeutic opportunities. This role is suited to an experienced psychologist with strong systemic thinking and the ability to work across organisational boundaries. You will have experience working with people with complex mental health needs and from diverse backgrounds, and be confident working collaboratively with a range of partners. This is an opportunity to join an innovative service  working at the intersection of mental health and homelessness in a diverse inner-London borough. ### Main duties of the job Core tasks will include facilitating reflective practice, staff training, providing psychological advice (informal, ad hoc, and formal consultation), assessment (including psychometrics and neuropsychological) and brief interventions with service users and carers. The post also involves the development of partnership working across all relevant sectors including health, social care, housing, criminal justice etc. By supporting staff, the goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of homeless people, promote their social connections, community engagement and participation. We aim to develop and deliver our services through co-production with people with lived experience. We would expect you to be fully committed to partnership working and co-production. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For details of the post please see the job description and person specification attached to this advert and do not hesitate to contact Jen Potter-James for more information ## Job Details We are seeking a highly motivated and creative HCPC-registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join a developing psychology service working across adult homeless hostels in Tower Hamlets. The service is focused on supporting hostel providers to embed Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs), trauma-informed and neuro-informed care. The service takes a non-pathologising, strengths-based and community psychology approach, recognising the impact of adversity, inequality and exclusion on mental health. The role involves close partnership working with hostel staff, residents, and local organisations, with a strong emphasis on lived experience, co-production and inclusion. Within this context, the postholder will play a key role in shaping psychologically informed provision across the system. This includes supporting staff teams through consultation, reflective practice and training; contributing to service development; and improving residents’ access to psychological and therapeutic opportunities. This role is suited to an experienced psychologist with strong systemic thinking and the ability to work across organisational boundaries. You will have experience working with people with complex mental health needs and from diverse backgrounds, and be confident working collaboratively with a range of partners. This is an opportunity to join an innovative service working at the intersection of mental health and homelessness in a diverse inner-London borough. ## Job Description Core tasks will include facilitating reflective practice, staff training, providing psychological advice (informal, ad hoc, and formal consultation), assessment (including psychometrics and neuropsychological) and brief interventions with service users and carers. The post also involves the development of partnership working across all relevant sectors including health, social care, housing, criminal justice etc. By supporting staff, the goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of homeless people, promote their social connections, community engagement and participation. We aim to develop and deliver our services through co-production with people with lived experience. We would expect you to be fully committed to partnership working and co-production. ## Responsibilities For details of the post please see the job description and person specification attached to this advert and do not hesitate to contact Jen Potter-James for more information ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviour - Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to contain the stress of others - Demonstrably respectful approach to service users, carers, colleagues, other professionals and professional contacts. Willingness to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally **Desirable** - Experience of co-production with people with lived experience of mental distress ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling sychologist in a multi-disciplinary team for adults with complex mental health needs - Experience of teaching, training, consultation and/or professional and clinical supervision **Desirable** - Experience of working in partnership within homelessness and/or third sector agencies - Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups - Ability to provide a culturally competent and non-stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health **Desirable** - Knowledge of the the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for complex health and social needs (e.g. trauma, self-harm, people diagnosed with 'personality disorder', psychosis, dual diagnosis, homelessness, persons with additional disabilities etc) - Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific populations that psychological services have traditionally fund difficult to work with ### Education/qualification/training **Essential** - HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling psychologist with post qualification experience **Desirable** - Further training in a therapeutic modality or psychological intervention relevant to homelessness e.g. trauma, trauma informed approaches, addiction ## Documents - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [tower hamlets psychology in hostels band 8a jd&ps (pdf, 416.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10331674) ## 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.