Senior Clinical Psychologist or clinical psychologist

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

The closing date is 27 February 2026

This role is three days based in the Urgent Care and Treatment Team (UCAT) North, a multidisciplinary team working with working age adults experiencing mental health crisis. The team is based at St Mary's Hospital, Kettering.

The postholder will work in the MDT to provide assessments, short term interventions, training and support. A proven interest in working with people experiencing complex mental health problems would be an advantage and experience of working with complex presentations would be essential.

Reporting to the Principal Clinical Psychologist who is clinically based in the south of the county, you will receive regular supervision and opportunities for further development.

• Psychological assessment of individuals
• Short term psychological interventions with individuals in crisis
• Supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists where appropriate/required (the trust offers regular placements to trainees from the Oxford and Leicester Doctoral courses in Clinical Psychology)
• Training, case formulation and support to staff in the UCAT team
• Supporting the delivery of psychologically-informed research projects and service development.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.

We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

• Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology OR CBT qualification. Registration with the HCPC or BABCP as appropriate.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• A demonstrated interest in working with people and their families.
• Post-training qualifications in therapy models
• Experience of working in acute/crisis settings
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' care and treatment.
• Experience of risk management and safety planning

• Able to build strong working relationships with service users, families and colleagues.
• Reliable and consistent in approach, demonstrating empathy and an open communication style with all team members.
• A positive approach to working with difference and diversity.
• Demonstrable leadership around the promotion of psychological ways of working.
• Able to work in a flexible way and respond to changing service needs.
• Strong capacity for self-reflection and the ability to encourage and foster the importance of this in others.
• Able to support and encourage others to develop their own practice.
• Able to work with service users and families experiencing acute distress.

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.

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Depending on experience, preceptorship is available for newly qualified applicants.