Senior Clinical Psychologist

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Leeds is seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join their working age adult acute inpatient service. The role involves providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions, contributing to service development, and supervising assistant psychologists. Candidates should possess doctoral-level training in Clinical Psychology and relevant post-qualification experience. The position includes opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

Benefits

27-33 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

NHS Pension Scheme

Employee wellbeing support

Exclusive discounts

Qualifications

• HCPC registration is required.
• Experience with complex mental health problems.
• Formal training in clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide qualified psychology service to service users and carers.
• Conduct psychological assessments and interventions.
• Supervise assistant psychologists and multidisciplinary team members.

Skills

Post qualification training in therapeutic model

Clinical supervision

Education

Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Senior Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 18 January 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for a clinical psychologist with relevant skills and experience to join the working age adult acute inpatient service psychology team. Psychology staff are integrated into multidisciplinary teams on the wards, where their input is highly valued. The acute/urgent care pathway has a consultant clinical psychologist, psychology and assistant psychology staff who work together as a group of professionals on shared aims and objectives to support colleagues in the delivery of psychological care across the acute pathway. This includes embedding psychological formulation, delivering and overseeing psychological interventions, delivering reflective practice groups, and supporting the ward teams. This is a new post to deliver psychological care into 2 wards at the Newsam Centre, including the psychiatric Intensive Care Ward (PICU), along with an assistant psychologist.

The psychological professions in the Trust are supported by a professional lead structure working to embed the psychological professions strategy. There is access to funding for continuing professional development and training courses. There are also many opportunities to engage in individual and group clinical supervision, training, audit, service evaluation, and research.

We would welcome informal visits prior to interview and would encourage anyone interested in the post to contact Dr Fiona Lowis, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on 07866217224.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified psychology service to service users (SUs) and carers accessing Adult Acute Inpatient Services, including a psychiatric intensive care ward (PICU). To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions. To offer advice and consultation on SUs' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Service policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the service area. To provide a key role in psychological aspects of service development in service areas of primary responsibility. To provide supervision to assistant psychologists and to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on the 27th of January.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) and HCPC registration

Skills

• Additional significant post qualification training in a further therapeutic model relevant to the inpatient service user group.

Experience

• Significant post qualification experience in working with people with complex mental health problems with high levels of acuity and risk.

Knowledge

• Formal Training in the clinical supervision of others.

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.

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust