Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Allergy

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health organization invites applications for a Band 8B Principal Practitioner Psychologist role in Allergy, based at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. The position calls for an experienced psychologist to provide specialist assessment and intervention, supervise team members, and collaborate within a multidisciplinary setting. Candidates must hold a relevant doctorate and HCPC registration. Benefits include generous leave and various employee discounts.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Considerable experience as a practitioner psychologist in relevant settings.
• Experience in assessment and therapeutic work with adults in physical health.
• Experience maintaining professionalism in emotive situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and intervention within a multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to service developments and audit/research projects.
• Supervise junior staff and provide consultation to professionals.

Skills

Communication Skills

Psychological Assessment

Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration

Supervision Skills

Education

Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology

HCPC registration

Post-doctoral training in specialized areas

Job description

0.4wte Band 8B Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Allergy

Available from 1 April 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner psychologist to work in partnership with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) to contribute at a senior level to the ongoing delivery of high quality, psychologically informed care to service users under a specialist Allergy MDT based at Wythenshawe Hospital. Integral to the role will be supporting the experienced MDT to ensure they are able to continue providing excellent biopsychosocial care to those affected by conditions such as food/drug/vaccine allergies, anaphylaxis etc.

This is a well-established service with the current postholder (who has resigned) having been in role since 2016.

You will be well supported through a professional group of other practitioner psychologists working in associated specialities such as severe asthma and cystic fibrosis. Supervision (both professionally and clinically) is integral to this post.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have experience of and enthusiasm for working within Acute Hospital settings and will provide a service of specialist assessment, consultation and intervention, working with a team of multidisciplinary staff. There are excellent opportunities within the service to become involved with service developments and with audit and research projects. The service has close links with Lancaster and Liverpool Doctorate Training Programmes and is the Host Trust for the Manchester Doctorate Programme.

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Job responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification attached to understand more about this role and the main job duties and responsibilities that would be expected from this post

Please see attached job description and person specification

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist registered with the HCPC
• Training in management skills
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological relevance (e.g. within physical health).

Experience

• Considerable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, in relevant settings and services (e.g. Respiratory Medicine specialisms).
• Experience in assessment and therapeutic work with adults with mental health/psychological needs in the setting of physical health problems
• Experience of working with NHS managers, other professional colleagues and other agencies
• Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of multidisciplinary care.
• Experience of representing practitioner psychology in multidisciplinary settings
• Experience of providing supervision (professional / clinical), teaching and / or training.
• Experience of developing and evaluating services
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life span and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, in-patient.

Skills

• Skills in the use of complex and specialised methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals
• The ability to supervise junior staff, maintaining records and adhering to Trust policies as required

Other

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

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.

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am

All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight)