Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Hull and East Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Psychologist to lead clinical initiatives across adult community mental health services in East Riding. The role involves providing psychological leadership, assessment, and support for clients with complex needs. Ideal candidates will possess a doctoral-level qualification in clinical psychology and significant experience at a senior level. Flexible working patterns are available, and the position offers a competitive salary ranging from £64,455 to £74,896 annually pro-rata.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Commitment to staff development

Qualifications

• Full understanding of clinical practice and standards.
• Significant experience as a practitioner psychologist.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership of the psychological workforce across your area.
• Provide psychological assessment and intervention for complex needs.
• Lead implementation of formulation-based care.

Skills

Effective inter-personal skills

Supervising and mentoring

Effective communication skills

Good time management skills

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Job description

Job Summary

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Provide clinical and professional supervision to psychological professionals within the teams and wider division, alongside other senior colleagues.
• Lead on projects and quality improvement initiatives in your area relating to psychological practice.

About Us

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.

Details

Date posted: 22 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 338-7664450-25

Job locations: Various across East Riding

Trust HQ, Block A, Ground Floor, Beverley Road, Willerby Hill

Hull

HU10 6FE

Person Specification – Qualifications, Education and Training

Essential

• 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 coordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups

Desirable

• 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

• 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

• A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
• Good time management skills

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit: https://www.humber.nhs.uk/ (opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: https://www.humber.nhs.uk/criminal-records-checks/ (opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer Details

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Various across East Riding

Trust HQ, Block A, Ground Floor, Beverley Road, Willerby Hill

Hull

HU10 6FE