Principal Applied Psychologist

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Knaresborough, York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Principal Applied Psychologist to work in a multi-disciplinary team focused on learning disabilities in North Yorkshire. The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership, therapeutic support, and develop psychological services across Harrogate and York. This role offers flexible working and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working options

Strong peer support and supervision

Qualifications

• Substantial experience as applied psychologist in learning disabilities.
• Experience providing clinical leadership and supervision.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practices and legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct and indirect therapeutic support to clients.
• Lead development of psychological therapies in locality.
• Contribute to clinical leadership for multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical supervision

Therapeutic support

Evidence-based practice

Education

Doctoral level in clinical/counseling psychology

HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist

Post-doctoral training

Job description

Overview

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 13 October 2025

The Adult Learning Disability service in the North Yorkshire, York and Selby (NYYS) care group are looking to increase the senior psychology leadership offer across the locality to work as part of our multi-disciplinary teams.

We have 0.6FTE (22.5hrs) of 8b Principal Applied Psychologist time available. The base for these hours is across the teams in our locality as follows:

• 0.4FTE (15hrs) in Harrogate
• 0.2FTE (7.5hrs) in York
• Some slight variation in hours at each base may be possible.

We would ask that candidates include on their applications an expression of interest in one or more base, stating the total hours they\'d be interested to work and the bases they would be interested to work at – i.e. 0.9FTE in total across York and Harrogate localities, or 0.5FTE in Scarborough, etc.

These newly created posts offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced applied psychologist to work with the Psychological Professions Lead to continue to develop and improve psychological services across the NYYS locality for people with learning disabilities.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will hold a complex clinical caseload offering direct and indirect therapeutic support to people with learning disabilities, their families, carers and staff teams. They will contribute to the collective clinical leadership of one or more multidisciplinary team across the locality ensuring high quality and well governed intervention and services. The duties will include provision of highly specialist consultation, reflection, formulation, training, supervision and promotion of psychological thinking and staff wellbeing.

Another key part of the successful candidates\' roles will be to lead the development of one or more governed psychological therapy across the locality, including the provision of highly specialist case consultation / specialist clinics and leading the training and development of psychologists and other MDT professionals in the locality.

In addition, the successful candidates will also offer clinical supervision and development support to band 7-8a psychologists, trainees and assistant psychology colleagues; contributing to the professional leadership of the psychological professions and lead an area of service development and improvement.

About us

We provide excellent opportunities for peer support/supervision, CPD, teaching/training, research and audit in line with strategic developments. There are also strong links to the local Hull, Leeds and Teesside Clinical Psychology Doctorate Programmes as we are key providers of academic and clinical experience components both in terms of teaching and clinical/ research supervision.

This post is 0.6FTE. We are happy to discuss flexible working. The post will require working in base as standard, with limited options to work from home.

We are very keen to support practitioners to obtain further professional training with relevance to the service (e.g., CBT, PBS, Systemic Family Therapy, etc). Our trust is also invested in staff wellbeing opportunities, which is very much supported by the service.

You will be working in an area of natural beauty across the North Yorkshire coast and North York Moors.

Job responsibilities

Applicants should have significant experience working in Learning Disability services and show a passion for working in this clinical speciality. The successful applicants will be enthusiastic, motivated, and demonstrate a commitment to delivering safe and high-quality health care and excellence in evidence-based practice. They will be working alongside a supportive leadership team where opportunities to develop special interests and co-work will be encouraged.

Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective leadership team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust\'s strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).

We utilise the NHS Leadership Academy framework and this will form part of your interview and selection process. Please review the attached document for guidance in your application process.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• Trained in care co-ordination
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Registration with BPS

Experience

• Must have substantial experience of: Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a full range of clinical severity
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients\' psychological care within a multidisciplinary team
• Must have experience of providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession
• Significant community or inpatient experience in a learning disability setting
• Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of evidence- based practice relevant to the role
• Risk assessment and risk management
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

0.4FTE Harrogate, 0.2FTE York, Some slight variation in hours at each base may be possible.

Systems House, York or Alexander House, Knaresborough

£62,215 to £72,293 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share

Reference number

Job locations

0.4FTE Harrogate, 0.2FTE York, Some slight variation in hours at each base may be possible.

Systems House, York or Alexander House, Knaresborough