Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Pain | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Manchester is seeking an experienced Principal Practitioner Psychologist to join their Pain Management team. The role involves providing specialist assessments and interventions while supporting other psychologists and contributing to service improvements. Ideal candidates will have a Doctorate in Psychology and experience in chronic pain management. Attractive benefits include generous annual leave, pension, and a wellbeing program.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Experience of working within the chronic pain specialism.
• Enthusiasm for providing psychological services in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to contribute to service development and research projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and intervention for chronic pain patients.
• Offer management and clinical supervision to other practitioner psychologists.
• Contribute to ongoing service development and support.

Skills

Experience in chronic pain

Psychological assessment

Management and clinical supervision

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Doctorate in Psychology

Job description

Overview

0.6WTE Band 8B Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Pain

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 (alongside another 8B colleague) to the ongoing delivery of high quality, psychologically informed pain management. The role includes a particular focus on offering senior support and oversight to the development of the pain services including contributing to Pain Management Programmes and providing management/clinical supervision to other practitioner psychologists.

You will be joining a well-developed group of practitioner psychologists working within physical health psychological services. The post holder will be based at Wythenshawe Hospital but provide up to 1 day a week input into a community pain team in Trafford. You would be supported by the Head of Physical Health Psychological Services for GMMH and have access to peer supervision from an experienced practitioner psychologist already in post.

The successful candidate will have experience of and enthusiasm for working within the chronic pain specialism 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 GMMH is the Host Trust for the Manchester Doctorate Programme.

There is a principal practitioner psychologist already in post and the successful candidate will benefit significantly from working alongside them as part of their induction and ongoing development.

Benefits

• Pay Enhancements
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)

This advert closes on Monday 17 Nov 2025