Clinical ,Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

Transformation Unit; Hull and East Yorkshire; Remote; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Principal Practitioner Psychologist to lead psychology provision within the Crisis and Acute Assessment pathway. The role focuses on senior clinical leadership, complex case work, and developing trauma-informed care across inpatient and community settings.

You will join the adult inpatient psychology hub, working with experienced colleagues and trainees to shape services and foster effective multidisciplinary collaboration.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical, forensic or counselling psychology.
• Current HCPC registration is required.
• Completed clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinical leadership within Crisis and Acute Assessment inpatient services.
• Coordinate delivery and governance of high-quality psychological services.
• Offer professional guidance, training, supervision and support to MDT.
• Provide specialist assessment and formulation for complex cases.
• Develop trauma-informed pathways and streamline care across inpatient and community services.
• Support workforce development and contribute to service evaluation.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Strategic planning

Chartered psychologist

Education

Doctoral level training (clinical/forensic/counselling psychology)

HCPC registration

Clinical supervision training

Job description

Main area Adult Mental Health Crisis and Assessment Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday - generally 9 to 5 with some flexibility to accommodate IP working hours when needed . Weekend working not expected.) Job ref 338-8382272-26

Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Miranda House Town Hull Salary £66,582 - £77,368 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/11/2026 23:59

Clinical ,Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

Are you interested in shaping the Crisis Service and Acute Assessment Ward psychological provision?

If you are an experienced psychologist ready to offer leadership to Crisis and Acute Assessment mental health services, we have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Practitioner Psychologist. We are looking for a person with significant post-qualification experience in adult mental health settings, ideally with complex and acute presentations, developing trauma informed pathways and service delivery.
The successful applicant will join the adult inpatient psychology hub, comprising friendly and engaged psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists and be part of the broader divisional psychology team with community-based colleagues.

You will be responsible for co-ordinating the systematic provision of psychological care to the Crisis & Assessment Pathway, working closely with the Principal Practitioner Psychologist responsible for the treatment wards.

The USPs of this role are working with experienced senior peer support, the opportunity to further develop the Crisis and Acute Assessment pathway and service, steering the model for hub-working across the teams and developing patient focussed pathways between inpatient and community Neighbourhood Teams as they come into fruition .

Main duties of the job

Providing senior clinical leadership within Crisis and Acute Assessment inpatient services with the inpatient psychology team, including co-ordinating and supporting the delivery and governance of high-quality psychological services. This includes the Mental Health Crisis and Intervention Team (MHCIT), Acute Assessment ward and Psychiatric intensive Care Unit (PICU).

Promoting the role of psychology within the service and offering professional guidance, training, consultation, supervision and support to the MDT to aid development and support staff wellbeing.

Provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation for individuals with complex mental health needs utilising evidence-based practice. The role requires linking with the treatment wards psychology team and community services to ensure good communication about the patient’s psychological needs.

Contributing to service development and service delivery at a senior level, promoting a trauma informed approach within the service and working with senior colleagues to develop and establish more streamline pathways across the Crisis and Acute mental health services to the treatment wards and into the Planned Care Mental Health Services.

The role will also involve supporting workforce development in line with service need and contributing to a positive culture. This will be based upon service evaluation and national guidance.

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 regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job description and Person Specification as well as the additional information document.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical, forensic or counselling psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS
• Current HCPC registration
• Completed clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees
• Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups
• To take a senior clinical role in partnership with the clinical team in managing complex cases
• Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to this client group
• Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

Knowledge and experience

• 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
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• 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
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Be able to effectively Chair meetings
• A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others
• Evidence of resiliency when working with challenging client groups
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Be able to demonstrate leadership/ management skills at an advanced level

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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 Dawn Peters Job title Professional Lead - Adult Mental Health Psychology Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07919545370

Additional information

Richard Pearson

Principal Clinical Psychologist for Crisis and Assessment Pathway

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