Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 338-7664450-25
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Various across East Riding
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
We are excited to advertise a senior psychologist post to provide senior clinical leadership across the East Riding geographical area in adult community mental health services.
You will take a key role in continuing to develop and implement the mental health division psychological workforce strategy in your area, and provide senior psychological leadership to the psychological workforce within your service area.
You will work alongside other senior leaders to support and strengthen the role of formulation-based care across your area, providing quick access to psychological assessment and formulation for service-users with the most complex needs, in conjunction with psychological colleagues from inpatient and crisis services.
If you are interested in taking a senior role that balances complex direct clinical work as well as indirect working and leadership and service development, we are keen to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Please see the specific job descriptions and person specifications for full details. Key duties include:
- Provide leadership of the psychological workforce across your area
- Provide psychological assessment, consultation, formulation and intervention across your area with a focus on clients with the most complex needs.
- In collaboration with psychological colleagues in unplanned care services, to provide and ensure timely access to assessment and formulation for clients with complex needs and high presenting risks, and to make and support the implementation of recommendations for other clinicians/services/agencies as part of that work.
- Provide regular psychological consultation, assessment and formulation slots, both direct and indirect with colleagues from across the service and wider division, to support psychologically-informed care.
- Lead the implementation of formulation-based care from the beginning of a client’s journey within the service.
- To provide the senior psychological voice in the development and implementation of psychological provision and pathways across the teams, ensuring that the psychological workforce within the service work within the aims of the divisional psychological workforce strategy.
- To provide clinical and professional supervision to psychological professionals within the teams and wider division, alongside other senior colleagues.
- To lead on projects and quality improvement initiatives in your area relating to psychological practice .
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job descriptions and person specifications.
This role is part of a new , more resourced senior leadership team that will be providing you with robust peer support and development opportunities.
Please see the additional document attached to the advert to learn more about the area, the opportunities and the wider support network associated with this post.
Person specification
Qualifications, Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS
- Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups
Desirable criteria
- Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc.)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups , across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
Desirable criteria
- A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
- Good time management skills
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dawn Peters
- Job title
- Professional Lead for AMH Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07883897248
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