Explore a psychological profession with us
Whether you're interested in clinical psychology, counselling, or other specialist roles, this is your starting point for discovering what's possible.
Our psychological workforce comprises more than 700 people who work in more than 20 different professions. Psychological professionals work across our services and settings, offering rewarding roles at every stage of your career.
A career with us means delivering high quality, evidence-based clinical care to meet the psychological needs of people in our community and inpatient services. It also involves supporting multi-professional colleagues and teams to provide psychologically informed care.
All roles listed are postgraduate options, so you'll need to have completed an undergraduate degree before pursuing further training.
Take a look at our leaflets, presentations, and video clips featuring our professionals.
About a psychological therapy career with us
Dr Bridget Gemal talks about what it's like working for the NHS and the different psychological therapy career options discussed in our 'Meet a Psychological Therapist' series.
Meet our professionals
Each spring, we host an online 'Meet a Psychological Therapist' event. It's a great opportunity to hear real experiences, ask questions, and explore your options.
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Art therapy
Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of expression and communication. Art therapists work with children, young people, adults and the elderly.
Art Therapy Psychological Professions guide
File size: 122KB
Art Psychotherapy Presentation
File size: 5.64MB
Assistant psychology
Applying methods and conducting tests to assess a patient’s needs, devising treatment programmes and delivery therapy, monitoring a patient’s progress, and carrying out research.
Assistant Psychology Psychological guide
File size: 106KB
Assistant Psychologist presentation
File size: 1.7MB
Clinical associate in psychology (CAP)
CAPs are trained to provide high quality evidence based psychological interventions, drawing on psychological assessments and formulations. CAPs often work within the context of a multidisciplinary team and may work with service users who have multiple long-standing difficulties.
CAPs may also contribute to service-based audit and research, along with training and supervision of other staff, within their scope of practice.
Clinical Associate In Psychology guide
File size: 200KB
Clinical Associate In Psychology Presentation
File size: 3.74MB
Clinical health psychologists
We help patients to make sense of their situation, develop new ways of coping, cope with the uncertainty of future health and treatment, and adjust to everyday life while living with the effect of their health problem.
We work with individuals, groups, and sometimes with families and carers.
Clinical Health Psychologists Professions Guide
File size: 116KB
Clinical Health Psychology presentation
File size: 1.77MB
Clinical neuropsychologist
Sally Finnie walks us through how to become a Neuropsychologist, which teams they can work in, and who can benefit from the care and treatment they provide.
You'll also learn about the training and skills needed to succeed and how Sally personally faced this challenge head-on.
Clinical Neuropsychology Psychological Professions guide
File size: 152KB
Clinical Neuropsychology presentation
File size: 2.73MB
Clinical psychologists and counselling psychologists
Clinical psychologists are highly skilled in the assessment of mental distress, considering a range of factors that contribute and maintain someone’s suffering, and working actively in therapy with clients to alleviate distress and change unhelpful patterns.
Counselling psychologists take a phenomenological approach to their work, meaning that they work with exploration and enquiry to understand the individual’s unique subjective psychological experience to empower their recovery and alleviate distress.
Counselling Psychologists Guide
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Clinical Psychologists and Counselling presentation
File size: 2.58MB
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
CBT covers a range of talking therapies based on the theory that thoughts, feelings, what we do, and how our body feels are all connected.
If we change one of these we can alter the others. CBT therapists can offer individual sessions or lead CBT as part of a group.
CBT Professions Guide
File size: 132KB
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Presentation
File size: 1.73MB
Mental health and wellbeing practitioner (MHWP)
MHWPs were introduced in 2022 as part of NHS Long Term Plan to improve access to psychologically-informed care for patients with severe mental health problems.
They support adults on their journey to better mental health, providing compassionate, person-centred care, focused on service-user goals.
MHWP career guide
File size: 189KB
Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP) presentation
File size: 3.43MB
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy is designed to help people with serious psychological disorders to understand and change complex emotional and relational problems thereby reducing symptoms and alleviating distress.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Career Guide
File size: 107KB
Psychodynamic Psychology Presentation
File size: 1.75MB
Psychological wellbeing practitioner (PWP)
PWP’s deliver Low Intensity CBT, which can help give patients the tools and strategies to change any thoughts and behaviours that contributing to feeling depressed or anxious.
Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner PWP guide
File size: 151KB
PWP career presentation
File size: 1.73MB
Systemic family therapy
Family therapists try to help everyone to feel safe so they can talk about their difficult thoughts and feelings, understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on family strengths, and work together to make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.
Systemic Family Therapy career guide
File size: 146KB
Systemic Family Psychotherapy presentation
File size: 1.71MB