Principle Clinical or Forensic Psychologist

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

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Principal Clinical or Forensic Psychologist for a full-time role at HMP Hull. This position involves delivering high-quality psychological services, working closely with a multidisciplinary team, and leading on important service projects. Candidates should possess a doctoral level degree in psychology and demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills. This role promises professional development opportunities within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a practitioner psychologist at a senior level.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to clinical area.
• Experience of promoting service user/carer involvement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions.
• Provide psychological advice and consultation.
• Lead on service developments and contribute to projects.

Skills

Leadership skills

Effective communication skills

Time management skills

Experience in supervising and mentoring

Interpersonal skills

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in psychology

Current HCPC registration

Job description

Job summary

We have a permanent Band 8b, full‑time Principle Clinical or Forensic Psychologist position, within our HMP Pathway Services, based at HMP Hull. This work will be in partnership with providers including Tees Esk & Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust and Rethink, supporting prisoners' mental health and well‑being.

You will have an opportunity spend a proportion of your time at the Humber centre to ensure you receive high quality supervision and training from the Lead and Consultant Psychologist of the forensic division.

Candidates will be required to work flexibly within the HMP Partner sites as required, including HMP Humber, HMP Full Sutton and HMP Millsike.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high‑quality psychological service. There is an emphasis on support and close multi‑disciplinary team working. Our approach is compassionate with a focus on embedding trauma informed care.

Reflective practice and creative approaches are highly valued. There will also be opportunities to lead on service wide projects to contribute significantly to improving the quality of the psychological services that we provide.

Applicants should have a strong sense of responsibility and leadership skills as the psychology representative within our prison mental health services.

In summary the role will involve:

• Delivery of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions within a prison mental health team
• Provision of psychological advice and consultation on service users mental health care
• Lead on service and research developments

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.

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Key details

Posted: 19 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: 8b

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

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full‑time

Reference number: 338-7686767-25

Job locations: HMP Hull (Hedon Road, Hull, HU9 5LS)

Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. This role is subject to additional prison vetting, over and above an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants cannot start employment until this has been received.

Person Specification – Qualifications & Knowledge

• Post‑graduate doctoral level training in psychology
• Current HCPC registration
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools, such as is used in neuro‑assessment, as applied in clinical area
• Skills in co‑ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non‑professional groups

Desirable

• Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Leadership or management qualification
• 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.)

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
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co‑ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active service user/carer involvement/participation

Experience – Desirable

• A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi‑professional and multi‑agency partnerships
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Skills & Competencies – Essential

• Effective inter‑personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
• Good time management skills
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others
• Some exposure to hazards e.g. verbal aggression, risk of physical aggression
• Ability to commute between the various sites
• Evidence of resiliency when working with challenging client groups

Skills & Competencies – Desirable

• Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level
• 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 UK Visas and Immigration website (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 Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (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

HMP Hull, Hedon Road, Hull, HU9 5LS

Website: https://www.humber.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)