Senior Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Band 8a

Main area Staff Psychological Support Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Part time applicants may be considered and are encouraged to contact the recruiting manager for a discussion) Job
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Site Lotus House Town Northampton Salary £55,690 - £62,682 Recently qualified psychologists will be considered at Band 7 Salary period Yearly Closing 21/01/2026 23:59 Interview date 13/02/2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join 14 Arches, Staff Psychology & Counselling; a psychology-led service offering psychological support to NHS staff working in Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. The service is based in Northampton but provides support across sites where NHFT staff are based.

You would be joining an innovative and enthusiastic team of two principal psychologists and two experienced counsellors, supported by a clinical administrator. Psychologists within the service offer one-to-one consultations to colleagues, in which we explore an area of concern and help make sense of what is going on; we also offer support to teams and team leaders, consulting when there are difficulties and providing input to teams through structured activities and reflective practice.

We are looking for an innovative and dedicated clinician with a strong commitment to improving psychological wellbeing for NHS staff and an interest in using their skills in a range of individual and group interventions with staff. Strengths will be psychological formulation which draws on a range of models, and the ability to communicate and share psychological thinking with colleagues. Also important will be the ability in the postholder to work at a systemic level, develop practice and take forward a project within the service.

You would be expected to work alongside the established psychologists and counsellors within the service, delivering support to colleagues who refer in, supporting service evaluation and development and contributing to supervision, governance and service development. This would include:

• Providing psychological consultations to individual staff who refer into the service around a concern which is impacting them at work
• Offering consultancy to managers around team issues
• Designing and delivering interventions with staff teams
• Developing and delivering psychologically informed groups
• Helping to deliver our pathway for staff experiencing distressing and potentially traumatic incidents at work, including preventative work, post-event support to teams and trauma therapy to individuals
• Utilising research skills for audit, service evaluation/development and research within the service.
• Providing supervision to other psychological professionals within the service e.g. trainee psychologists, counsellors
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies & procedures

Joining this service can offer:

• Regular supervision from one of the principal psychologists in the service
• Monthly reflective practice within the team
• Opportunity to work within a well established and integrated Psychological Professions Network, which provides access to monthly CPD meetings, organisational support and opportunities to connect with psychological professionals working across the Trust.
• Support to develop supervision and teaching skills, with clinical psychology trainees through both the University of Leicester and University of Oxford Clinical Psychology Doctoral training programmes.

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.

You would like to discuss this opportunity please contact Dr Marianne Welford, Principal Clinical Psychologist/Joint Service Lead () or Dr Anna Richards, Principal Counselling Psychologist/Joint Service Lead () to arrange a time.

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

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalent
• Eligible/Registered with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
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