Job summary
- Main area
- LS Perinatal
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-H&F-075
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Armstrong Way
- Town
- Southall
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum pro rata inclusive of 15% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/01/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/01/2026
Employer heading
Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 7
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for motivated and creative individuals, who are looking to develop specialist skills in an innovative and expanding service:
Band 7 Clinical / Counselling Psychologist in the Tri-Borough Perinatal Service (0.6wte)
This is an innovative award winning service delivering new models of specialist care within in West London NHS Trust. Perinatal Mental Health services benefited from significant national funding with the largest expansion of posts being within psychological therapies. This is in recognition of the choices and preference for psychological interventions of women accessing perinatal mental health services.
The role will be based in Ealing with the need to flexibly/attend meetings at the other team locations across the Trust. The successful candidate will need to be able to work on Mondays and Wednesdays.
This would be an ideal opportunity for an excellent clinician who has experience in Perinatal Mental Health or associated areas. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain exposure and enhance their knowledge and skills with the support of a highly specialised team which will help the post holder to develop their own specialist skills in Perinatal Mental Health.
We will support successful candidates to develop a bespoke training programme to facilitate their development within the post.
Main duties of the job
Provide assessments of patients referred to the Perinatal Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
To provide a comprehensive psychological therapy service to patients within the perinatal service who may have a wide range of psychological needs. This will include the provision of evidence-based treatments for trauma (Trauma focussed CBT or EMDR).
To provide evidence based interventions to women, couples and families, where appropriate, considering the specific needs of families who are pregnant or have a young baby.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both the evidence base, theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have shaped the individual, family or group.
To be responsible for implementing a range of time-limited psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of a range of theoretical approaches.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent) in Clinical Psychology OR Counselling Psychology
- Eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society
- HCPC registered or, for those outside the UK, eligible and will be registered by the time of taking up post.
Desirable criteria
- Further training in trauma focussed interventions (CBT, EMDR or NET)
- Training in motivational interviewing or other specific behaviour change techniques
- Advanced keyboard skills and computer literacy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems
- Experience of facilitating therapeutic groups
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical /counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with parent infant attachment focused interventions e.g. video interaction guidance.
- Experience of running structured psycho-educational group-based interventions
- Experience of working with couples and families
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable criteria
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of NHS primary and secondary care structures
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to manage time effectively and meet deadlines.
- Commitment to reflecting on own performance, seeking and accepting constructive feedback and learning from own and team experiences.
- Self-motivated, able to work autonomously and independently with confidence when required.
- Exercise initiative, flexibility, tact and self-awareness
- Willing to use peer and group supervision creatively.
- Be able to work flexibly if required
- Be aware of the limitations in own competencies and seek appropriate senior advice and leadership
- Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust.
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
- Nic Horley
- Job title
- Specialist Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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