Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapies
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 8 months (Fixed term 8 months)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-CH7837278
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Vivienne Cohen House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa pro ratum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/04/2026
Employer heading
Clinical /Counselling Psychologist or CBTp therapist
Band 7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
East London Foundation Trust are pleased to offer the opportunity for a Psychologist or Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (with CBTp specialism) to join us in the City and Hackney community mental health service. This post is a fixed term 8 month contract and working 18.75 hours per week.
The psychological therapies service is embedded within various community mental health multidisciplinary teams, which are intended to offer a place-based service responsive to local population needs. We mainly work with people who have a diagnosis of psychosis /BPAD and/or are under care coordination due to the level of their current needs.
Main duties of the job
The role involves both direct and indirect working. The direct work with service users includes consultation, assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions. The post involves working with service users with a wide range of mental health difficulties, mostly people with a diagnosis of psychosis or bipolar affective disorder, and/or are under care coordination due to the level of their current needs. There is an ongoing group treatment programme across the borough and the post holder will be encouraged to contribute to this according to their interests.
Indirect work will include consultation, formulation, supervision and training with the multidisciplinary teams, and also with other services involved in the service user’s care as envisaged by the neighbourhood model.
The post holder will be committed to supporting the work of the wider psychology service in seeking to provide a high quality, equitable, culturally competent and trauma-informed service.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical /counselling psychology or CBTp service to service users under the care of the community mental health teams.
- To bring a psychological perspective to the work of the community mental health teams.
- Clinically supervise the work of assistant psychologists, graduate psychologists and, two years after qualifying, trainee psychologists.
- To promote and facilitate psychological capability within the community mental health teams e.g. via consultation, staff support and reflection and training.
- To support and lead when required, co-production and service-user involvement in psychology-related service development projects.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.
- Follow defined practices and procedures under the management and co-ordination of a senior psychologist.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
- Participate in CPD and other developmental activities, keeping up to date with relevant psychological research and national guidance (DoH, NICE etc).
Person specification
Education/qualification/training
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist or BABCP accredited CBTp therapist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
- Experience of representing psychological therapy services within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of delivering evidence-based psychological assessment and intervention with clients experiencing a range of complex mental health needs including psychosis.
- Experience of developing and carrying out research projects
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with families and carers, and of delivering family therapy following a theoretical
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Highly-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.
- Knowledge of psychological assessment and intervention with clients experiencing severe mental health problems including psychosis.
- Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to provide a culturally-competent and non-stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health
- Ability to support and co-ordinate the work of psychology colleagues within the team/service.
- Knowledge of trauma-informed care and practices
Desirable criteria
- Highly-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised evidence-based psychological therapies relevant to the client group.
- Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems.
- Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Manjumitra Johannessen (He/him)
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07947 380350
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