# Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for a fixed-term, 3-day-a-week role within the Queens Park and Paddington (QPP) Community Mental Health Hub. The successful candidate will provide a psychological service to patients of the QPP Community Mental Health Hub and the wider catchment area.

The post holder will play a key role in the continuing development of the overall psychology service within the team and will be given opportunities to be involved in clinical research and development where appropriate.

**Main Duties of the Job:**

- Provide a high standard of clinical care for clients and junior staff

- Conduct advanced assessments and treatments for clients with acute, chronic, or complex presentations

- Assess clients' needs and direct them to other services as appropriate

- Maintain records as an autonomous practitioner

- Communicate effectively with health and social care professionals and outside agencies regarding client care and progress

- Undertake a significant clinical caseload working under supervision in collaboration with other agencies and health and social care professionals

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide specialist psychological assessments and formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients' mental health problems

- Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups

- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options

- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients

- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals

- Contribute to the development, evaluation, and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services

- Undertake research and provide research advice to other staff

**Benefits:**

- A Trust committed to staff personal development with a trust-wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core

- Flexible working

- Variety of work

- Access to a variety of CPD opportunities

## Skills

### Required
- Clinical Psychology
- Counselling Psychology
- Mental Health

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