Lead for Psychological Practice - Adult Mental Health

Job overview

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Are you an experienced Consultant Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with a passion for leadership, service development & high-quality psychological care?

Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Care Group is seeking an inspiring Lead for Psychological Practice to provide strategic, professional leadership across our Adult MH services including Community, Specialist, Crisis, Mental Health Liaison, Dementia & Inpatient Services.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the future of psychological practice across a large & diverse CG. Working closely with the Lead for Psychological Practice in Family Services, CAMHS & Physical Health Psychology, you will champion psychologically informed care, provide expert guidance and ensure robust clinical governance across services.

We are looking for an experienced Consultant Psychologist with strong influencing and communication skills, who can lead and inspire a vibrant psychological workforce. You will work collaboratively with senior leaders and Applied Psychologists to support strategic planning, service development and the delivery of excellent patient care while maintaining your own clinical practice within the Care Group.

If you are passionate about shaping psychological services, developing professionals and making a lasting impact on mental health care, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical and governance responsibility for all psychological practice across the Care Group, providing strategic clinical leadership and direction in continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology
• Be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
• Professionally responsible for delivery of the designated service across all localities.
• Accountable for own professional practice in delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with complex, severe and/or enduring mental health conditions or learning disabilities including significant challenging behaviours and risk of physical aggression.
• Lead Trust-wide development of service and represent the psychology profession on strategic groups, as agreed with the Managing Director and Director of Psychological Services.
• Represent psychology services at the General Management Team, Quality & Governance Sub-Committee and Mental Health QERG and ensure systematic governance of psychological practice
• Responsible for ensuring a coherent locality psychological leadership provided by the Consultant Clinical Psychologists, with locality responsibilities.
• Responsible for ensuring the provision of effective teaching & training for all psychologists in the designated service. To act as a highly specialist resource in providing expert advice, clinical supervision & training to less experienced colleagues across the service & to other healthcare professionals and external agencies

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A provisional interview date has been arranged for 11 November 2026, but this is subject to change.

For more information, please contact Ben Rogers Director of Psychological Services Ben.Rogers@mpft.nhs.uk

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.