Clinical Psychologist - Crht

Hampshire And Isle Of Wight Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Newport, East Cowes, Binstead; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join the Mental Health Liaison and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment (CRHT) teams on the Isle of Wight.

You will provide clinical and professional leadership, supervise colleagues, and help shape service development while maintaining a strong clinical presence within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent.
• Registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
• Accredited registration with relevant psychological bodies (e.g. HCPC, BABCP, ACAT, EMDR Association).

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and professional leadership across the Mental Health Liaison and CRHT teams.
• Supervise, mentor and guide colleagues while maintaining a strong clinical presence.
• Collaborate with nursing, medical and allied health professionals to develop services and promote best practice.

Job description

Job summary

We're looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join our Mental Health Liaison and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment (CRHT) teams on the Isle of Wight.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting people experiencing acute mental health crises, helping them access timely assessment, treatment and support when they need it most. You will work as part of a compassionate and skilled multidisciplinary team that is committed to improving outcomes for service users and their families.

As a Clinical Psychologist, you will provide both clinical and professional leadership across the Mental Health Liaison and CRHT teams. You will support colleagues through supervision, mentoring, and day-to-day guidance, while maintaining a strong clinical presence and leading by example. Working alongside nursing, medical, and allied health professionals, you will contribute to service development, promote best practice and help ensure the highest standards of care for those accessing our services.

Main duties of the job

You will have experience of working with adults experiencing mental health crises and be confident working in partnership with families, carers, and partner agencies with a person-centred approach. Strong communication skills, clinical judgement and a commitment to supporting people through their recovery and transition back into the community is essential.

This role offers the opportunity to make a genuine difference, helping shape and develop crisis and liaison services across the Isle of Wight while supporting the professional growth of teams around you.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Based on full time hours
Band: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Closing date: 01 November 2026
Reference number: 348-IOW-12824

Essential qualifications

• A doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent, and registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
• Or qualification as an RMN, social worker or occupational therapist with post-qualification training in psychological therapy equivalent to a diploma or above. Applications from qualified psychological therapists without a core professional training will also be considered if they meet the other criteria.
• AND accredited registration with a relevant psychological professional body (e.g. HCPC, BABCP, ACAT, EMDR Association).

Desirable qualifications

• Training and qualifications in staff training, other psychological therapies, or other fields of applied psychology.

Essential experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of individuals and their families across a range of care settings (e.g. inpatient, community and primary care settings).
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

Desirable experience

• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapy in specific groups (e.g. psychosis, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Job locations

Newport Health and Wellbeing Centre, 62 High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1BA; East Cowes Medical Centre, Church Path, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO32 6RP; Ryde Health and Wellbeing Centre, Pellhurst Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 3DT

For questions about the job, contact:

Ana Ambrose, Hiring Manager, [e-mail], 01983681801

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/