Senior Clinical Psychologist

Site HMP Woodhill Town Milton Keynes – Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum (pro rata if P/T). Closing 26/01/2026 23:59

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London’s population, Milton Keynes and surrounding areas. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run. Our diverse catchment area spans over 100 first languages, from affluent to deprived communities. We are proud of our diversity and actively promote equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Senior Psychological Therapist to join our forward‑thinking, friendly and expanding Mental Health Inreach Team at HMP Woodhill
. Join our Surrey Prisons Health Care Team and look after the healthcare needs of prisoners, promoting health and well‑being. We seek someone passionate about working with people in custody, with trauma, adversity and offending.

• To provide a key role in integrating clinical psychology within the wider mental health team.
• To provide a comprehensive specialist clinical psychology service to service users.
• To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy as well as offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to other members of the clinical team.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Health & Justice Services Directorate.
• To provide clinical supervision to other members of the team when appropriate.
• To contribute to the reflective practice and critical thinking of the team on a case‑by‑case basis (e.g. complex case reviews) and in service improvement.

CNWL’s Health and Justice Services are led by a highly motivated team with vast experience in healthcare within secure environments. We employ a range of psychologists and psychological therapists with clinical, counselling and forensic training. Psychologists work across prisons, YOIs, secure hospitals, with children and adults, men and women and across security categories. Psychologists also lead four specialist Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) commissioned services and Sexual Behaviour Services in the youth estate.

Joining a large, forward‑thinking Trust will bring excellent development opportunities, an exciting career structure and job satisfaction. Psychologists from across Health and Justice come together for professional and clinical development. High‑quality supervision and continuing professional development are integral to our approach and to our intent to support and retain an excellent team. Focused training which contributes to your own development and to our service development will be supported.

• To carry out specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the client’s difficulties.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of…