Consultant Adult Psychotherapist and Service Lead

Job summary

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead our Dynamic Psychotherapy Service across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

The service forms part of a wider collaborative network of psychology and psychotherapy services within the Directorate of Mental Health and works in close partnership with Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams through a hub-and-spoke model. This senior post provides clinical, professional, operational and strategic leadership, alongside a senior clinical role, with opportunities to shape specialist psychotherapy provision and collaborative working. Applicants must have a core professional qualification and recognised specialist qualification in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic psychotherapy, with current registration with the CPJA College of the UKCP or British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), alongside extensive senior NHS experience and significant leadership and management experience.

We are looking for an experienced and collaborative leader committed to clinical excellence, workforce development with commitment to deliver an effective and productive specialist psychotherapy provision.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support.

Main duties of the job

To provide senior clinical leadership and line management to a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.

To work with the Directorate Lead Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies and other clinical and operational senior leaders in the Directorate of Mental Health (DMH) Step Up to Great Mental Health Service development plans to support the design, development and delivery of a high-quality, responsive and accessible psychological service in an integrated way within service delivery teams.

To manage the delegated budget of a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.

To be responsible for the day to day management and leadership of the staff working within a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.

Working within a multi professional and recovery-oriented framework to actively facilitate psychologically informed ways of working with people requiring clinical psychology and specialist psychological therapies.

To provide highly advanced clinical leadership and ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the supervision and governance of the clinical practice for a designated area within the Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies service.

To facilitate training, development and application of agreed models of psychological, psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions as needed within the Trust.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Details

• Date posted: 19 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8c
• Salary: £79,504 to £91,609 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 007386
• Job locations: Gwendolen House, Gwendolen Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE5 4QF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

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