Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

As part of
the reconfiguration of the Learning Disability (LD) CAMHS service we are
recruiting a part-time (27 hours) Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
to play a key role in shaping its future development.

The small
LD CAMHS team prides itself on its flexibility and creativity in meeting
individuals needs and on its close collaboration with other agencies.

The team
now sits under the umbrella of Learning Disability Services, which means that the
postholder will have the direct support of the Trust Lead Psychologist in this
area and sit in a structure alongside the two other Learning Disability
Consultant Psychologists. This will
ensure that their professional development will remain protected during this
period of change.

There will
be flexibility in agreeing a working pattern and official base, with a balance
of working from home. Although
advertised as a 27 hour post we will consider 22.5 hours or more.

Please do contact
us to find out more.

Main duties of the job

The
postholder will provide clinical leadership and oversight of the governance of
the LD CAMHS service. They will work
closely with the Lead Psychologist to shape service development in line with
national drivers and good practice.

They will also
provide clinical supervision and line management to a small number of team
members and empower them to share the leadership responsibilities.

They will
help to develop creative ways of working within the current national financial
constraints to best meet the psychological needs of children and young people
with learning disabilities and the systems around them. Working alongside key
stakeholders they will help to bring psychological thinking to the wider
network.

The
postholder will also hold a suitable caseload of people with learning
disabilities and a range of complex psychological needs.

Given that
this is a new post the postholder will be able to influence its development
over time

We
are happy to discuss this in more detail.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience required specific to the role and clinical area
  • Experience in developing research and development programmes within psychology therapy services
  • Experience in teaching and training of trainee and post-qualification psychological therapists, and of non-psychological staff
  • NHS/Leadership experience managing or providing professional leadership to a range of qualified psychological therapy staff (including recruitment, appraisal, performance management and clinical supervision)
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the application of multi-theoretical psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation with a range of common and complex mental health needs
  • Experience working within multidisciplinary services

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above in psychology.
  • Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
  • Post-graduate level or above training and qualification in NHS leadership/management or equivalent leadership/
  • management experience
  • Eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) by the BPS
  • Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 1 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.