Clinical Psychologist in Harlow

Main area: Clinical Psychologist in Learning Disability

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time, Flexible working, 22.5 hours per week

Job ref: 367-LD&F-101767

Site: Kao Park, Town: Harlow, Essex

Salary: £68,852 - £79,638 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 22/11/2026 23:59

Interview date: 04/12/2026

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission. Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful, Professional.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• The successful post holder will provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to adults with learning disabilities, service providers and carers within the Essex area (both within the community and in-patient services as necessary).
• They will provide highly specialised psychological assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers.
• They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams’ policies and procedures.
• They will use research skills for audit, service development and research and contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychological service provision.

All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and diversity.

Person specification:

• Qualifications:
• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Full Registration as a practitioner psychologist with the HCPC.
• Accredited as a Board-Certified Behaviour Analyst or equivalent accreditation in Positive Behaviour Support or Applied Behaviour Analysis.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Post graduate training in Positive Behaviour Support or Applied Behaviour Analysis.
• Experience:
• Significant experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level with people with a learning disability.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention.
• Previous experience of using Positive Behaviour support with people who have learning disabilities, their families & carers.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

Please note, we do not charge fees for job applications, recruitment processes, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Alison Spencer

Email address: alison.spencer2@nhs.net

Telephone number: 07789 943708

Additional information: Nina Viljoen (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) can also be contacted on n.viljoen@nhs.net or 07879817531.