# Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Harrow, London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £63665.00 to £70887.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our specialist Harrow Frailty team. The successful candidate will provide high-quality psychology services to older adults in the London Borough of Harrow.

The postholder will work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver individual, systems, and community psychology interventions across multiple agencies. The service accommodates the needs of individuals with difficulties of both functional and organic origins.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing highly specialist psychological assessments for older adults

- Delivering evidence-based psychological interventions tailored to older adults

- Assessing and managing clinical risk

- Acting as a keyworker or care coordinator

- Supporting early identification of psychological needs within the frailty pathway

- Contributing to a psychologically informed framework

- Facilitating and evaluating Community Psychology initiatives

- Providing specialist psychological consultation to MDT colleagues

- Liaising with referrers, GPs, acute hospitals, and voluntary sector partners

- Using psychological theory and research to inform team practice and service development

- Providing clinical supervision and case consultation to assistant psychologists and trainees

The ideal candidate will have:

- A doctoral-level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

- Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist

- Experience of working as a clinical specialist under supervision in older adults services

- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with complex psychological needs

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

We offer a competitive salary of £63,665 to £70,887 per annum, depending on experience.

## Skills

### Required
- specialist psychological assessments
- evidence-based psychological interventions
- clinical risk management
- multidisciplinary teamwork
- psychological theory and research

### Nice to have
- neuropsychology training
- CST training

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