# Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-clinicalcounselling-psychologist/76eaec6f-cdd3-4da1-b398-08ac8af1823f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-clinicalcounselling-psychologist/76eaec6f-cdd3-4da1-b398-08ac8af1823f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of inner London HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-04T09:43:02.433Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/South_West_London_St_Georges_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Adult_Community_Services/Adult_Community_Services-v8049333 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8049333?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologists or a Clinical Psychologist to join our Putney and Roehampton Integrated Recovery Hub is one of four multidisciplinary Integrated Recovery Hubs in Wandsworth and provide specialist assessment, treatment and recovery work for adults with a wide variety of severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The Trust has a strong commitment to the development of psychological work, and you will be part of a larger group of psychologists working in the service and will receive regular supervision from the borough psychology professional lead. There are good CPD opportunities within the Trust. ### Main duties of the job You will be responsible for the provision of a systematic clinical psychology service within the context of a multidisciplinary team focusing on: - Specialist psychological assessments - Evidence based psychological interventions - Group work - Teaching, training and consultation to MDT - Service evaluation, audit and development - Provide a training placement to a trainee clinical psychologist The post is for a qualified clinical psychologist registered with the Health & Care Professions Council and who has at least 18 months post qualification experience. We will accept applications from applicants who may not have the required length of experience but may have significant relevant experience for a band 7 role. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients’ care. - To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. - To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. - To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. - To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. - To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to client’s formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan. - To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. - To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. - To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. - To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. ## Job Details We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologists or a Clinical Psychologist to join our Putney and Roehampton Integrated Recovery Hub is one of four multidisciplinary Integrated Recovery Hubs in Wandsworth and provide specialist assessment, treatment and recovery work for adults with a wide variety of severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The Trust has a strong commitment to the development of psychological work, and you will be part of a larger group of psychologists working in the service and will receive regular supervision from the borough psychology professional lead. There are good CPD opportunities within the Trust. ## Job Description You will be responsible for the provision of a systematic clinical psychology service within the context of a multidisciplinary team focusing on: Specialist psychological assessments Evidence based psychological interventions Group work Teaching, training and consultation to MDT Service evaluation, audit and development Provide a training placement to a trainee clinical psychologist The post is for a qualified clinical psychologist registered with the Health & Care Professions Council and who has at least 18 months post qualification experience. We will accept applications from applicants who may not have the required length of experience but may have significant relevant experience for a band 7 role. ## Responsibilities To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients’ care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to client’s formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient 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 highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse - Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology **Desirable** - Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision - Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts ### Knowledge & Skills **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration - 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 providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups - Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology **Desirable** - Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnosis including people experiencing psychosis with personality disorder, substance misuse, learning disability, neurological dysfunction, additional disabilities etc) - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies - Knowledge of recent policy and legislation in relation to people with severe and enduring mental health problems specifically and concerning mental health in general ### Training & Qualification **Essential** - Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and (for Clinical Psychologists) neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology ; OR alternative training outside of the UK that is recognised by the Health & Care Professions Council leading to registration in the UK as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist - Formal training in supervision of other psychologists - To be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council under the appropriate domain specific title **Desirable** - Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology ## Documents - [trust values (pdf, 785.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2069) - [staff benefits (pdf, 239.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2318) - [swlstg diversity (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2314) - [swlstg privacy notice (pdf, 106.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2510) - [dbs information for candidates (pdf, 109.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=627) - [anti racism values into actions (pdf, 815.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2865) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 176.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10338486) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10338487) ## 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.