Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Reaside Clinic

Job overview

Are you?

• Creative, reflective, and emotionally resilient
• Passionate about working with people with complex presentations
• Interested in mental health, personality difficulties, trauma, and risk
• Able to work collaboratively while constructively challenging systems
• Compassionate, authentic, and relationship-focused

If you are, then we invite you to apply for a permanent role within our Secure Care and Offender Health Services at Reaside Clinic — a 92-bed medium secure inpatient service supporting adult men experiencing severe and complex mental health difficulties, often alongside histories of violence and offending behaviour.

At Reaside Clinic, you will become part of a highly supportive and expanding Psychological Therapies team made up of: Practitioner Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists, Specialist Psychological Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists. You will work within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment where psychological thinking is central to care, recovery, and service development.

Main duties of the job

This role is a leadership position within an existing team. It combines a combination of opportunities to influence,  lead and contribute to service development initiatives, help integrate develop psychologically informed systems and cultures across services provide supervision and line management,  support research, audit, training, and evaluation projects , and develop professional growth in yourself and others.

We recognise that working in secure care can be both rewarding and challenging. You will be supported by experienced colleagues and strong multi-model supervision structures designed to support your professional development and wellbeing.

We are also committed to helping staff identify and develop their own professional interests — your “shiny thing” — aligning your growth with both your aspirations and service needs.

We actively value diverse backgrounds and perspectives that can bring fresh thinking to our evolving services.

We are committed to continuous professional development and offer:

• Excellent supervision structures
• Opportunities for leadership development
• Access to research and innovation projects
• Supportive multidisciplinary working
• Career progression opportunities across SCOH service                              If you are ready for the next stage in your career and want to contribute to meaningful, psychologically informed care within a supportive and ambitious team, we would love to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

Please click on the link for a little insight into our services and our people

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If you are interested in any of the 8b posts within SCOH then you do not  need to apply separately for roles and that a full time job split between the roles can be considered.