Lead Principal Practitioner Psychologist Aot/Grip

Gloucestershire Health And Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic and experienced practitioner psychologist to join our adult mental health service for psychosis and bipolar pathways across Gloucester and Cheltenham.

You will provide expert psychological formulation, direct clinical care within MDTs, and supervise other psychology staff while leading development of psychosis pathways and quality improvement across care networks.

Qualifications

• Essential: Appropriate qualification for role.
• Essential: HCPC or other appropriate professional registration
• Desirable: CBT-Psychosis / Family Therapy Qualifications (0-1-2)

Responsibilities

• Work as part of MDTs providing specialist psychological formulation, assessment and direct care.
• Provide supervision, reflective practice and consultation/advice to colleagues and teams.
• Contribute to quality improvement and service development, including research and development activities such as teaching.
• Leading workstreams on psychological approaches to care, and specifically working as a part of our developing psychosis pathways
• Line manage, supervise and support other psychological professionals, assistants and trainees.

Skills

Driving licence

Mandatory training

Education

HCPC registration

CBT-Psychosis / Family Therapy qualifications

Job description

Job summary We are looking for a dynamic skilled and experienced practitioner psychologist to join our mental health service working with adults with psychosis. This is an exciting time to be joining the Trust as we are looking at improving our services for people experiencing psychosis and bipolar disorder and expanding the psychological provision in our teams. Working across a number of community teams you will provide expertise in both direct clinical work and leadership/supervision of teams in psychological approaches to care. This is a key clinical leadership role, working within teams and responsible for continuing to drive and embed the significant work already undertaken to develop services for people with psychosis across Gloucestershire. The post holder will be responsible for providing highly-specialist advice and consultancy to staff, teams, and patients with direct responsibility for the provision of psychological services within the teams, including supervision of other psychological professionals including assistants and trainees. They will also have a key role to play in service development and quality improvement across care pathways.

Main duties of the job

This role covers teams based in Gloucester, Cheltenham and across the county. All reasonable flexible working requests will be considered, but the post holder will be expected to work across sites in line with service need.

Our specialist mental health services work with adults with severe mental health problems. About 60% of the people we work with have experienced psychosis, and we aim to provide psychologically and trauma informed care and evidence based interventions including CBT-P and Family Therapy.

In this role you will:

• Work as part of MDT's providing specialist psychological formulation, assessment and direct care.
• Provide supervision, reflective practice and consultation/advice to colleagues and teams,
• Contribute to quality improvement and service development, including research and development activities such as teaching.
• Leading workstreams on psychological approaches to care, and specifically working as a part of our developing psychosis pathways
• Line manage, supervise and support other psychological professionals, assistants and trainees.

Qualifications

• Essential: Appropriate qualification for role
• Essential: HCPC or other appropriate professional registration
• Desirable: CBT-Psychosis / Family Therapy Qualifications (0-1-2)

Experience

• Essential: Working with client group adults smhp psychosis
• Essential: Experience of working in AMH MDT
• Desirable: Experience of being care coordinator
• Desirable: Experience of working at highly specialist level

Skills

• Essential: Hold driving license
• Essential: Ability to participate in all mandatory and statutory training

Details

Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 327-26-881
Closing date: 07 December 2026

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. Applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure and Barring Service check.