# Senior Applied Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-applied-psychologist/d7d64ac1-0d81-4a1d-bc85-c94db01285ce - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-applied-psychologist/d7d64ac1-0d81-4a1d-bc85-c94db01285ce.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 Inc HCA - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Job share, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-03T12:52:15.721Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Counselling_Psychologist/Clinical_Counselling_Psychologist-v8101619 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8101619?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post will involve working in the newly created referrals and assessment service in City and Hackney. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, the post-holder will carry out triage and assessment, as well as providing consultation with colleagues from other professions to guide initial formulations and ensure service users receive care in the correct pathways. The post-holder will work with the psychological lead to develop good working relationships with in-borough psychological services and partnership agencies, including primary care and third-sector organisations who provide support to specific ethnic, cultural and religious groups in City and Hackney. The post-holder will have a role in developing the service in co-production with service users,  and will provide training and support to multi-disciplinary colleagues. This an exciting opportunity to be involved in the launch of a new service model and we are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about improving the experience of care for service users and increasing equity of access to psychological services for people from marginalised communities. ### Main duties of the job - Undertake specialist assessment of service users Commitment to promoting inclusive ways of working and challenging health inequalities for the populations of City & Hackney. Robust, formulation-driven risk assessment Develop collaborative treatment and safety plans with service users Maintain strong links with the community teams (‘quadrants’) and other parts of the system, including inpatient and voluntary and third sector organisations, to ensure a robust knowledge of the support and interventions available, and proactively addressing and problem solving any interface issues. Offer support, formulation and consultation to the MDT Co-produce ways of working and improvement ideas with experts by experience, people participation and local partners (including voluntary and third sector organisations) To contribute to, and where requested, hold delegated responsibility for maintaining and developing the operational management structure in the service, compliant with Trust Policies and Key performance indicators. To provide clinical supervision and line management as appropriate to B7 psychologist and designated junior colleagues, e.g Clinical Associate Psychologist in Training, Assistant Psychologist and/or Trainee Clinical Psychologist ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - The ‘front door’ is the single point of access for urgent and non-urgent referrals to City & Hackney ELFT secondary care community mental health services. The service seeks to screen referrals and offer comprehensive assessments to service users who meet eligibility criteria within 28 days for non-urgent, and either four or 24 hours for urgent referrals. The senior applied psychologist will be part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in the front door, offering assessments to service users and supporting the rest of the team to integrate psychological thinking into their work, ensuring formulation is at the heart of the service’s practice. The post will be supervised by the principal lead for psychology within the front door and be part of the psychological network throughout the borough and wider trust. The successful candidate will be passionate about inclusive working, ensuring that the diverse populations of City & Hackney are receiving an equitable service. ## Job Details The post will involve working in the newly created referrals and assessment service in City and Hackney. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, the post-holder will carry out triage and assessment, as well as providing consultation with colleagues from other professions to guide initial formulations and ensure service users receive care in the correct pathways. The post-holder will work with the psychological lead to develop good working relationships with in-borough psychological services and partnership agencies, including primary care and third-sector organisations who provide support to specific ethnic, cultural and religious groups in City and Hackney. The post-holder will have a role in developing the service in co-production with service users, and will provide training and support to multi-disciplinary colleagues. This an exciting opportunity to be involved in the launch of a new service model and we are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about improving the experience of care for service users and increasing equity of access to psychological services for people from marginalised communities. ## Job Description Undertake specialist assessment of service users Commitment to promoting inclusive ways of working and challenging health inequalities for the populations of City & Hackney. Robust, formulation-driven risk assessment Develop collaborative treatment and safety plans with service users Maintain strong links with the community teams (‘quadrants’) and other parts of the system, including inpatient and voluntary and third sector organisations, to ensure a robust knowledge of the support and interventions available, and proactively addressing and problem solving any interface issues. Offer support, formulation and consultation to the MDT Co-produce ways of working and improvement ideas with experts by experience, people participation and local partners (including voluntary and third sector organisations) To contribute to, and where requested, hold delegated responsibility for maintaining and developing the operational management structure in the service, compliant with Trust Policies and Key performance indicators. To provide clinical supervision and line management as appropriate to B7 psychologist and designated junior colleagues, e.g Clinical Associate Psychologist in Training, Assistant Psychologist and/or Trainee Clinical Psychologist ## Responsibilities The ‘front door’ is the single point of access for urgent and non-urgent referrals to City & Hackney ELFT secondary care community mental health services. The service seeks to screen referrals and offer comprehensive assessments to service users who meet eligibility criteria within 28 days for non-urgent, and either four or 24 hours for urgent referrals. The senior applied psychologist will be part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in the front door, offering assessments to service users and supporting the rest of the team to integrate psychological thinking into their work, ensuring formulation is at the heart of the service’s practice. The post will be supervised by the principal lead for psychology within the front door and be part of the psychological network throughout the borough and wider trust. The successful candidate will be passionate about inclusive working, ensuring that the diverse populations of City & Hackney are receiving an equitable service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Knowledge of Integrated care agenda - Approaches to addressing population physical and mental health ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstrable experience of working therapeutically in MDT mental health settings directly with service users with severe and complex mental health difficulties including psychosis, personality disorder, complex trauma, substance misuse and significant difficulties in the area of their interpersonal functioning - Experience of psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across the full range of multidisciplinary care - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan - Developing collaborative, formulation-driven risk assessment and safety plan - Experience of the application of psychological assessments and interventions in different cultural contexts - Experience of teaching, line managing and supervising **Desirable** - Experience of supervising staff from other disciplines ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Evidence of continuous professional development particularly in relation to the development of knowledge and skills for working with people with complex mental health difficulties - Strong, demonstrable skills in MDT working, including sharing and developing a formulation that can be used to inform the treatment plan, with the MDT - Knowledge of theory and practice of a number of specialised psychological therapies, such as psychotherapy, MBT, CBT and EMDR - Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis and service evaluation. - To be able to engage with service users, carers and experts-by-experience in the co-production of service development including the assessment process - Able to maintain a high degree of sensitivity and professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse - Knowledge of relevant legislation and best practice guidance, including the mental health act and Nice ### Education/Qualifications/Trainings **Essential** - Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS - Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist - Clinical supervision training for doctoral clinical /counselling psychology trainees **Desirable** - Further training in a therapeutic modality relevant to complex mental health e.g. trauma interventions such as EMDR/ TF-CBT ## 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) - [job description / person specification (pdf, 312.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10395826) - [job description / person specification (pdf, 328.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10395827) ## 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.