# Director of Psychological Professions > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/director-of-psychological-professions/6bbb0972-f0d4-46d2-8a46-95795eb40689 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/director-of-psychological-professions/6bbb0972-f0d4-46d2-8a46-95795eb40689.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Manchester - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 9 - **Salary:** £112,782 - £129,783 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T12:12:50.941Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Manchester/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8033768 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8033768?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview GMMH is looking for experienced and ambitious consultant psychological professionals as candidates for the Director for Psychological Professions / Chief Psychological Professions Officer role. The appointee will be responsible for senior strategic leadership, professional governance, workforce development, and driving improvement across psychological services in line with the GMMH Psychological Professions Plan. GMMH has developed leadership roles for each of the professional groups and strong care group leadership for the psychological professions. The successful candidate would be expected to work with professional lead colleagues toward a psychologically safe, just and learning culture underpinned by compassionate and trauma informed leadership. ### Main duties of the job Complete JD/PS is attached to the advert. - Provide strategic and professional leadership for all psychological professions within the trust. - Lead long‑term service development, ensuring psychological interventions are high‑quality, evidence‑based, and well‑integrated across clinical services. - Act as the Trust’s senior professional advisor on psychological practice, governance, and workforce issues. - Professional responsibility for psychological professionals, including supervision systems, appraisal, CPD, and recruitment frameworks. - Strategic workforce leadership, including retention, recruitment, and development of new psychological roles. - Clinical and research governance, ensuring safe, effective, and consistent psychological practice across services. - Performance management of psychological services, including developing systems to monitor quality and value for money. - Budgetary contribution, supporting senior managers in planning and managing resources for psychological services. - Representing the Trust regionally and nationally, influencing policy and contributing to wider NHS psychological professions strategy. - Compassionate, inclusive leadership with strong collaboration skills. - Commitment to service user and carer involvement in shaping psychological services. - Alignment with Trust values, such as respect, quality, improving lives, and working together. - Experience working in large, complex organisations and with external partners. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification Staff benefits - Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays. - 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years - Excellent pension - Cycle to work scheme - Salary sacrifice car scheme - Wellbeing programme - Blue Light Card Discounts ## Job Details GMMH is looking for experienced and ambitious consultant psychological professionals as candidates for the Director for Psychological Professions / Chief Psychological Professions Officer role. The appointee will be responsible for senior strategic leadership, professional governance, workforce development, and driving improvement across psychological services in line with the GMMH Psychological Professions Plan. GMMH has developed leadership roles for each of the professional groups and strong care group leadership for the psychological professions. The successful candidate would be expected to work with professional lead colleagues toward a psychologically safe, just and learning culture underpinned by compassionate and trauma informed leadership. ## Job Description Complete JD/PS is attached to the advert. Provide strategic and professional leadership for all psychological professions within the trust. Lead long‑term service development, ensuring psychological interventions are high‑quality, evidence‑based, and well‑integrated across clinical services. Act as the Trust’s senior professional advisor on psychological practice, governance, and workforce issues. Professional responsibility for psychological professionals, including supervision systems, appraisal, CPD, and recruitment frameworks. Strategic workforce leadership, including retention, recruitment, and development of new psychological roles. Clinical and research governance, ensuring safe, effective, and consistent psychological practice across services. Performance management of psychological services, including developing systems to monitor quality and value for money. Budgetary contribution, supporting senior managers in planning and managing resources for psychological services. Representing the Trust regionally and nationally, influencing policy and contributing to wider NHS psychological professions strategy. Compassionate, inclusive leadership with strong collaboration skills. Commitment to service user and carer involvement in shaping psychological services. Alignment with Trust values, such as respect, quality, improving lives, and working together. Experience working in large, complex organisations and with external partners. ## Responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification Staff benefits Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years Excellent pension Cycle to work scheme Salary sacrifice car scheme Wellbeing programme Blue Light Card Discounts ## Person Specification ### Personal **Essential** - Have credible and personal integrity, open, honest and inclusive. - Ability to work in a complex environment. - Flexible in style and approach Displays strong collaborative leadership qualities. - Ability to lead, motivate, inspire and empower others to achieve objectives and aspirations. - Ability to assimilate, interpret, and analyse complex information and present to others. - The resilience necessary to overcome obstacles and resistance Results driven / outcome focused System and process orientate. - Ability to sustain intense periods of concentration. - Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services. **Desirable** - Personal experience of managing mental health problems. - Ability to demonstrate the trust values within the work setting. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience within Mental Health Services at a Senior Psychological Professional Level. - Experience of continuing professional development. - Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders. - Ability to manage complex and sensitive situations. - Ability to work within and meet clear performance targets and indicators Knowledge of working experience of service redesign. - Financial and budgetary management experience. - Ability to work in a complex environment. - Display strong collective leadership qualities. - Ability to communicate highly complex and/or sensitive information in challenging environments. - Influencing, persuasion and negotiating skills. - Experience of user and carer involvement in the evaluation of services. - 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 a full range of care settings. - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment. - Experience of teaching, training, and professional and clinical supervision. Experience of professional management of qualified and pre qualified psychological professionals. **Desirable** - Experience of professional management, selection and recruitment of qualified psychologists and other healthcare professionals. - Experience of having sole responsibility for a key area of service provision within psychology services. - Proven ability to plan, implement, develop and evaluate new service initiatives. - Experience of representing the profession or service in local policy forums. Experience of managing a Psychological Service Budget. - Experience of the application of psychological principles in different cultural contexts ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Doctoral level knowledge of psychological theory. - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. - Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. - Ability to organise time effectively. - Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non professional groups. - Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals. - Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis. - Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological interventions, including CBT. - Ability to provide thorough risk assessments. - Knowledge of legislation in relation to clients with complex, severe and enduring mental health problems and of mental health legislation. - Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies interventions. - Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS, HCPC and accrediting bodies. - Formal training in supervision of other psychological professionals. - Ability to demonstrate critical reasoning skills, to question received wisdom and arrive at sound judgements where information is not available and expert opinion may differ. - Ability to think strategically, to retain the wider picture and create a viable vision and to demonstrate critical reasoning. - High level analytical and judgmental skills. - High level planning and organisation skills. - Familiarity with computer use including word processing, spread sheets, database programmes and PowerPoint. - Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills. - Ability to contain, manage and work with organisational stress and ability to contain the stress of others. - Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours. - Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. - Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. - Ability to clearly articulate the role of the psychological professions based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy. **Desirable** - Ability to interpret financial and performance data in order to create strategic plans. - Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions in specific difficult to treat groups. Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological interventions. Knowledge of models and/or strategies of management and leadership. - A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area. - Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books. ### Education/Qualification **Essential** - Doctoral level training in psychological practice, including models of psychopathology, lifespan developmental psychology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological interventions. - Registered with HCPC (or equivalent) as a practitioner psychologist. - Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. - A recognised Management/Leadership Qualification. **Desirable** - Eligibility to be a chartered clinical psychologist with British Psychological Society ### Planning & Organisational Skills **Essential** - Can demonstrate a high level of organisational skills and ability. - Can demonstrate Project Management skills ## Documents - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) - [jd/ps - director of psychological professions (pdf, 230.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10321502) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.