# Practitioner (Clinical/Counselling) Psychologist in HIV > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/practitioner-clinicalcounselling-psychologist-in-hiv/04e2ab0d-b89c-4f41-b6ff-0ce119fceac7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/practitioner-clinicalcounselling-psychologist-in-hiv/04e2ab0d-b89c-4f41-b6ff-0ce119fceac7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** North Middlesex University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 Prorata Per Annum Including HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent: 0.2 WTE (1 DAY ) - **Employment type:** Part time - 7.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-11T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-28T16:31:02.609Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/HIV_Service/HIV_Service-v8214974 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8214974?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview To provide one day of qualified psychological assessment and therapy to patients of the Alexander Pringle HIV service. This will include psychological assessments and intervention for patients presenting with mental health difficulties related to, or impacting, their physical health diagnosis and care To provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non- psychologist colleagues and working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post holder may offer clinical supervision to trainee clinical / counselling psychologists. The role includes provision of reflective supervision to non psychology team members and provision of teaching sessions to the team under the supervision of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist The post holder will be based at the North Middlesex Hospital, Alexander Pringle HIV unit for one day per week. Ideally this will be a Thursday or Friday, two half days would be considered. This is an on-site post ### Main duties of the job To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a relevant senior clinical/counselling psychologist. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals within the HIV Service, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about psychological treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment formulation and treatment plans of Haematology and HIV patients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress within both uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary care ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To provide clinical and professional supervision to trainee psychologists To participate fully and implement standards devised from Trust’s clinical and research governance activity. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the Health Professions Council and Trust data protection policies and procedures. ### 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 as a qualified / trainee Practitioner psychologist - Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment **Desirable** - Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. - Experience within HIV/Clinical psychology health settings. - Experience and interest in working with socially excluded/ stigmatized populations ### Skills and aptitudes **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment - A high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to patients and professional persons within and outside the NHS. - Ability to act as a practitioner psychologist and work autonomously in hospital settings. - Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. - Knowledge and understanding of confidentiality issues **Desirable** - Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health. - Highly developed knowledge of the psychological theory and practice - Doctorate level knowledge of research design and methodology practiced within the field of clinical psychology - Experience of working within a multicultural framework. ### Education and professional qualifications **Essential** - Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or Counselling Psychology - Registration with Health and Care Professions Council **Desirable** - Postgraduate training and accreditation in a therapy modality such as CBT, EMDR systemic or narrative therapy ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10522787) - [person specification (pdf, 205.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10522788) ## 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.