Overview

As a Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (Wellbeing), you'll provide expert advice and support to colleagues operating in complex, risk-based roles. You'll deliver consultations focused on vulnerability, resilience and risk, and carry out direct and indirect clinical assessments drawing on psychometrics, interviews and clinical observations, where appropriate. This is a rewarding and influential role where you'll be responsible for multi-disciplinary work with wide-reaching impact. You might undertake collaborative health surveillance and impact monitoring, offer wellbeing consultations to corporate teams, or highlight the psychological aspects of complex casework to business partners. This includes offering reflective practice to colleagues managing high-risk roles. You'll also oversee the delivery of specialist clinical interventions, including risk management and trauma work. Whether you're presenting psychology-informed training sessions or developing assessments that support high-risk role selection, you'll engage with our teams, the wider behavioural science community and government partners to develop best practice approaches. You'll also participate in small-scale research and audit projects, and regular peer supervision and ethical practice reflection. It's a role with plenty of collaboration. You'll work with Personal Security, Occupational Health, and Employee Assistance/Health and Wellbeing, and act as a role model for professionalism, inclusion and evidence-based practices. As you seek to enhance our processes, you'll also seize opportunities to further your own skills as you stay up to date with Health and Care Professions Council requirements. You may also attend relevant conferences in the UK and internationally, and travel to other locations nationally where required.

About GCHQ and Diversity

GCHQ is proud to have achieved Leader status within the Department for Work and Pensions' Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who best meet the essential minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview, if it is practical for us to do so.

Minimum Criteria / Responsibilities and Qualifications

To secure an interview for this role, the minimum criteria (in order of application process) are:

1. A Master's or Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology (or their equivalent, conferring eligibility for chartership with the British Psychological Society)
2. Health & Care Professions Council registration
3. Significant experience of working at NHS Band 7 (or its equivalent) as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
4. Experience delivering training in a multidisciplinary team setting and extensive post-qualification work with young adult or adult clinical populations; ability to conduct psychological assessments and deliver training to psychology and non-psychology colleagues
5. Proven ability to deliver clinical advice and consultation, with clear reports and documentation
6. Expertise in psychometric testing, formulation and risk assessment
7. Commitment to continuing professional development and staying updated with relevant clinical and research findings

Salary and Working Arrangements

Salary: £50,838 to £62,437 with an additional concessionary payment. You may qualify for an Individual Recruitment Premium of £7,392 to £10,212 (effective from day one). This is not guaranteed year-on-year and is reviewed annually. Flexible working: full-time and part-time hours (minimum 3 days per week). Remote/homeworking options are limited due to the nature of the work. Flexible hours considered, subject to business needs.

Rewards and Benefits

• 25 days annual leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
• Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Excellent pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Facilities such as gym, restaurant and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
• Paid parental and adoption leave