Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

We are seeking a clinical or counselling psychologist to work in the North Islington Core team. North London Foundation Trust (NLFT) community mental health services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation, and Core teams are at the forefront of this. We are developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector.

Main duties of the jobThe post holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team providing assessments, formulations, and interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London borough of Islington. This would require a sound knowledge and experience of CBT and other evidence base interventions in both groups and individual contexts. They will also support and offer liaison, education, supervision, and consultation to GPs, members of the multidisciplinary team and the wider Primary Care Network.

Postholders will be part of newly developing Virtual Psychology Hubs within each borough as well as being integrated within the MDT. This will support more effective co-ordination and delivery of psychological interventions within the borough.

About us North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for allWe will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Details Date posted
06 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 7

Salary
58,133 to 65,261 a year

Per annum including HCAS

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time

Reference number
455-NLFT-8245500

Job locations

North Islington Core Team1 Lowther Rd London N7  8US
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Job responsibilities

Please see the attached

Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see the attached

Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Registrations

Essential Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society or the British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence and other relevant qualifications in CBTCurrent registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical or counselling psychologist

Skills/ Abilities

Essential Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests) intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, including challenging behaviours. Specific knowledge of severe mental illness.

Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHSAbility to offer a multi-theoretical formulation and to communicate this in a clear and concise manner

Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting and experience of working jointly with other professional disciplines

Ability to work flexibly and creatively according to the needs of local primary care services

Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations…