Principal Psychologist

Change Grow Live; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

A community service organization in the UK is seeking a Principal Psychologist to lead their psychosocial interventions. This role involves developing services to support individuals facing challenges, particularly in drug and alcohol use recovery. Applicants should be registered psychologists with leadership experience and a passion for social justice. This part-time, permanent position offers a salary range of £60,105.53 - £69,701.08 based on experience, with a closing date for applications on 31/8/2025.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of evidence-based interventions.
• Compassionate and inspiring character.

Responsibilities

• Lead psychological interventions and service development.
• Collaborate with colleagues for excellent service delivery.
• Engage in peer support and professional development.

Skills

Leadership

Psychological assessment

Clinical intervention

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Psychologist

Relevant postgraduate qualification

Job description

Overview

Believe in People?

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

At Change Grow Live we care deeply about social justice and the work that we do. If you do too and you have the necessary experience and passion for this post, we encourage you to apply for this innovative leadership position. We are looking for a registered Psychologist who has the appropriate competencies and experience to lead our services.

We are looking for a registered Psychologist to become our Principal Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling/Forensic). In this role you will develop our service and psychosocial interventions offer.

We want all of our services to be Psychologically Informed. We support people experiencing difficulties associated with a range of challenges, most frequently including drug and alcohol use. We want to focus our Psychology resources to support equity and assure quality and delivery of evidence-based interventions as outlined in Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2017.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

• Location – covering Knowsley

• CGL points - Scale Points - 54 – 62 (£60,105.53 - £69,701.08)

• Based from a local delivery hub

• Contracted Hours – 15 hour, part time

• Category – Clinical/Managerial

• Type of contract – Permanent

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

Responsibilities

You will work as part of multidisciplinary teams and your focus will be the excellent delivery of recommended specialised interventions. These form the primary Job Plan for all Psychology positions, contributing to supporting recovery and are detailed within our Job Descriptions.

This is a very exciting time for the organisation and Psychology within it, we will need you to see the bigger picture and support us to adapt our models to meet people’s needs. For you to bring your very best to this role you will need to be open-minded and willing to lead Psychology and Psychological Therapies to develop in this way.

You will be joining a brilliant national team of Psychologists and qualified counsellors; we also have a range of highly committed and passionate staff who deliver psychosocial interventions – whether on a 1-1 basis or in groups. Regular clinical supervision will be from a Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. Our teams are vibrant, diverse, and multidisciplinary – you would be starting in a good place!

You will have the opportunity to work with your peers, engaging in formal and informal peer support, reflective practice, research and CPD opportunities.

If you are compassionate, authentic, inspiring and you want to make a difference, working in an environment where you can use your clinical skills and creativity to achieve the best for people, we would encourage you to read our job description.

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are. We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL points 54 to 62 (£60,105.54 - £69,701.09)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Closing Date

31/8/2025

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Karen Van Gerko | [e-mail] post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.