# Lead Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-clinical-psychologist/7629c6c3-bcc9-4e07-8dc2-65b9b1876235 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-clinical-psychologist/7629c6c3-bcc9-4e07-8dc2-65b9b1876235.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Bodmin - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 Per Annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5 Monday to Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-07T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T10:11:33.984Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cornwall/East_Cornwall_Locality/Cornwall_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Lead_Clinical_Psychologist/Lead_Clinical_Psychologist-v7987018 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7987018?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Lead Practitioner Psychologist to play a key leadership role in developing and delivering integrated health services for adults experiencing mental health difficulties. The post holder will provide a high level of specialist psychological expertise within community mental health settings, supporting complex and challenging cases and ensuring the delivery of effective, evidence-based care. This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply: - Cornwall Foundation Trust - Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust - Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time. ### Main duties of the job As the lead psychologist, you will be responsible for overseeing the allocation of referrals, ensuring interventions are provided by appropriately skilled staff, and maintaining high clinical standards across the service. You will offer specialist assessments, interventions, and evaluations, while also contributing to the development and implementation of psychological care packages for individuals with significant mental health needs or challenging behaviours. This is a community-based role that requires frequent travel to various locations throughout the county including areas that may not be accessible by public transportation. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate how they will manage these travel requirements. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’. ## Job Details We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Lead Practitioner Psychologist to play a key leadership role in developing and delivering integrated health services for adults experiencing mental health difficulties. The post holder will provide a high level of specialist psychological expertise within community mental health settings, supporting complex and challenging cases and ensuring the delivery of effective, evidence-based care. This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply: If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time. ## Job Description As the lead psychologist, you will be responsible for overseeing the allocation of referrals, ensuring interventions are provided by appropriately skilled staff, and maintaining high clinical standards across the service. You will offer specialist assessments, interventions, and evaluations, while also contributing to the development and implementation of psychological care packages for individuals with significant mental health needs or challenging behaviours. This is a community-based role that requires frequent travel to various locations throughout the county including areas that may not be accessible by public transportation. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate how they will manage these travel requirements. ## Responsibilities To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - 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 range of care settings - Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with children and young people with Learning Disability/Autism/Neurodivergence. - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. - Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. - Experience of working with adults presenting with high risk and emotionally dysregulated presentations ### Education & Qualifcations **Essential** - Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (as approved by HCPC/BPS) Or Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (as approved by HCPC/BPS). Or Doctorate in Forensic Psychology / BPS doctoral-level Qualification in Forensic Psychology (Stage 2) (as approved by HCPC/BPS) Or Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Postgraduate doctoral level training in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK), as approved by the HCPC; including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. - Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment modalities in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. co-morbid/complex presentations ). - Additional further training in the use of specific psychometric and/or neuropsychological assessment tools. - Current registration with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist. **Desirable** - Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists including Doctoral Trainees. ## Documents - [autism support (pdf, 38.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=977) - [dyslexia support (pdf, 76.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1833) - [job description (pdf, 389.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10270608) - [parental entitlement (pdf, 300.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1834) - [functional requirements (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10270609) - [recruitment complaints policy (pdf, 113.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=976) ## 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.