Counselling Psychologist jobs in United Kingdom

Are you an HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist looking for a new role where you can make a difference to a developing service?

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Adult Eating Disorders Service (AEDS) on a part-time basis (18.75 hours per week). Based at the Sue Nicholls Centre in Aylesbury, you will be delivering high-quality, specialist psychological care to adults with complex eating disorders. You'll provide assessments, evidence-based interventions (e.g., CBT-ED), and consultation, while also contributing to service development and staff training across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

You'll be supporting junior staff and trainees, developing innovative care pathways, and contributing to audit and research projects to enhance service delivery. Your expertise will be central to delivering compassionate, patient-focused care and driving excellence in clinical outcomes.

If you are a skilled psychologist with a passion for supporting individuals affected by eating disorders, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of mental health care as part of a supportive and forward-thinking team.

This role requires travel between community locations, so you must be comfortable driving for work and able to travel freely within working hours. Applicants must have a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members, and others involved in the patient's care.
• Make skilled evaluations to formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
• Implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups within and across the Adult Eating Disorder service, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, informed by different exploratory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individuals, family, or group.

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe, and excellent"

At Oxford Health, we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

The primary focus for this role is to ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical or counselling psychology service to clients with complex mental health problems including severe, enduring, and multiple disorders, and challenging behaviour.

Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role.

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology including specifically models of psychopathology and psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies

• Experience of working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist within Adult Mental Health Service
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
• Experience of supervision of junior and/or trainee psychologists.
• Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist within Adult Eating Disorder Service.
• Experience of running groups.

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of or qualified in CBT-E or MANTRA

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.

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum, pro rata