Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a psychologist with an interest in inpatient mental health and a passion for bringing psychological ways of working to complex systems?

If so, read on!

We are looking for an enthusiastic qualifiedpsychologistwith experience in working with systems and families, to join the Newham Acute Psychology Service (NAPS). This team provides psychological services to the people who reside, work and visit Newham Centre for Mental Health (NCMH). This post is advertised at 12 months but will end on 14th September 2027, irrespective of start date.

Why work with us?

Within the NAPS team you will be encouraged to bring your ideas and creativity to develop the psychology provision in your wards and across the service. Staff development and innovation is very important to us. See below for a list of some of our current projects:

• Relational Security and patient engagement.
• Quality improvement projects.
• Sensory interventions in NCMH.

CPD opportunities

• Collaboration with the local MDT and Therapies services.
• Research opportunities in collaboration with NELFT and the University of East London.
• CPD opportunities (e.g. systemic working, indirect approaches, leadership) within a Band 8a role.
• Local Secondary Care Psychological Services network offers further opportunities for learning and connection.

You will be responsible for bringing psychological approaches to our adult triage mental health wards. Our overall aim within the NAPS team is to foster a compassionate, safe and therapeutic culture for all people within the service. You would be expected to play an active part in planning, prioritising and reflecting on how best to organise your work to move towards this aim.

Roles will include direct interventions with patients in group, individual and family sessions; staff support and development including team formulation, reflective practice and training; leadership of co-production, evaluation and quality improvement (QI) initiatives throughout the service. There is a current focus on supporting the discharge process and interface in collaboration with our community services. Where required, this may involve seeing families in their homes.

We are looking for applicants who bring enthusiasm and creativity around inpatient working. Experience in acute mh services and providing culturally inclusive psychological approaches in NHS services is also highly desirable as well as an ability to speak an additional local language.

The Trust has embraced flexible working. We are interested in hybrid ways of working that are within the scope of the role.

We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate; their ideas, passions and aspirations into our team.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.

Our values are

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

For full details of the job, please refer to the attached Job Description and Personal Specification

Please note

This post is advertised at 12 months but will end on 14th September 2027, irrespective of start date.

This advert closes on Friday 31 Jul 2026