# Lead for the Psychological Professions > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-for-the-psychological-professions/687115df-3cb5-4c69-91d4-453a80788bdb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-for-the-psychological-professions/687115df-3cb5-4c69-91d4-453a80788bdb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust - **Location:** The Beacon - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Lead (legacy management group) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £94356.00 to £108814.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-09-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-28T12:10:54.936Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9313-26-0385 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.leicspart.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=7292&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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! We have an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Consultant Psychological Therapist to join us as our Directorate Lead of the Psychological Professions within the Directorate of Mental Health (DMH). We are looking for a forward-thinking consultant Clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist with exceptional leadership and project management skills to lead Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapy Services in the Mental Health Directorate, and to take a lead role in the design, development and implementation of the psychological therapy pathway within our directorate-wide transformation programme. This post will provide direct line management and leadership to our Psychology and Psychological Therapy Services and pathways across DMH. This full-time 8D post is a key role in our mental health directorate management team and will report to the director of mental health services. It is a great opportunity to demonstrate your leadership and clinical skills, including some direct clinical interventions together with consultation, training, supervision and reflective practice. Please see attached document titled Advert DMH Lead for PP for full details of the role and organisation. ### Main duties of the job As the Directorate Lead for Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapies within the Mental Health Directorate, the role is responsible for leading psychology and psychotherapy services across Mental Health Services for Older People, specialist psychotherapy services, and all psychology and psychological therapy pathways within Planned Care, Urgent Care and Inpatient Services. Working as part of the Directorate Senior Management Team, the post holder collaborates with Clinical Leads to design, develop and deliver high-quality, accessible and integrated psychological services, while providing line management, budget oversight and strategic direction. The role also promotes psychologically informed and recovery-focused practice, provides advanced clinical leadership, ensures effective governance and supervision arrangements, supports training and professional development, and maintains high standards of psychological care and clinical practice across the Directorate. We are looking for a forward-thinking consultant clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist with exceptional leadership and project management skills to lead Psychology and Specialist Psychological Therapy Services in the Mental Health Directorate, and to take a lead role in the design, development and implementation of the psychological therapy pathway within our directorate-wide transformation programme. ### 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: 28 August 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 8d - Salary: £94,356 to £108,814 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: 007276 - Job locations: OSL House, East Link, Meridian Business Park, Leicester, Leicester, LE19 1XU, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto “Apply for this job” and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification. ## Person Specification ### General **Essential** - Self-awareness and advanced understanding of impact of self – including use of own power and authority – on others. - Compassionate and dedicated approach to working with people requiring contact with psychology and specialist psychological therapies. - Willingness to work collaboratively with colleagues, including with the service implementation group - Willingness to travel, work out of a variety of sites and to negotiate the terms of using different locations for the work of the service - 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. ### Mobility **Essential** - This will either be not applicable or own transport or suitable alternative. Dependence on public transport is not suitable for this role - You must demonstrate how you would meet the stated mobility requirement on your application form ### Trust Values **Essential** - Demonstrates a commitment to the Trust’s Values: Compassion; Trust; Respect; Integrity ### Qualifications **Essential** - Core qualification as an Applied Psychologist or Psychological Therapist, and current registration with appropriate regulatory and professional bodies (e.g. HCPC, BABCP, UKCP etc.) - Management/ leadership training or experience at a senior level ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by the full range of professional groups in psychological working and psychologically informed practice within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services. - An ability to demonstrate leadership and organisational skills. - Ability to contain, manage and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others. ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Evidence through core training or post-qualification qualifications/experience of models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. - Education in a relevant subject (clinical and/or leadership/ management) to a Doctoral level, or equivalent, including evidence of advanced research skills. - Further training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, together with an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice with an experienced clinical supervisor, at an equivalent level to a postgraduate diploma. - Completion of a clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees. ### Standard Requirements **Essential** - Commitment to Equality & Valuing Diversity Principles - Understanding of Confidentiality & Data Protection - Understanding of the service users of the Trust (which could include lived experience of conditions the Trust deals with or of receiving services relevant to those the Trust provides) ### Experience and Knowledge **Essential** - Excellent professional knowledge of clinical presentations typically encountered in the services constituting the Directorate of Mental Health including a broad and deep understanding of definitions, conventions of diagnosis, treatment and support options, risk management, research evidence and national policy - Therapeutic and psycho-educational individual, group and family skills appropriate to leading practice in services constituting the Directorate of Mental Health. - Knowledge and skill in the use of a variety of psychological assessment approaches, including self-assessment and clinical interview tools. - Ability to clinically lead, supervise and evaluate the practice of a multidisciplinary staff. - Ability to identify the training needs of staff of all backgrounds and to devise strategies to ensure those needs are met. - A knowledge of and commitment of the principles of social inclusion and a recovery approach to service delivery. - An understanding of the stigma and exclusion faced by people with mental health problems and a commitment to ensuring that services with LPT challenge such disadvantage. - Excellent and demonstrable knowledge and skill with regard to managing the clinical and other risk associated including risk management strategies devised in conjunction with partner agencies. - Ability to use influencing and negotiating skills, including in situations of controversy and conflict. - Ability to produce highest quality written reports to deadlines, as required. - Demonstrable ability to utilise and interpret Psychometric Tests competently - Extensive experience of providing psychological and psycho-educational services to people making use of psychology and specialist psychological therapy services. - Extensive experience of working with multidisciplinary colleagues and in multi-agency environments. - Extensive experience of providing supervision and consultation to multidisciplinary staff. - Skills and knowledge of research and audit relevant to the service at doctoral level or equivalent, with experience of undertaking professional research and service evaluation and/or audit. - Experience of working in partnership and in consultative ways with service users and carers. - Experience in influencing and collaborating with colleagues at all levels of own organisation and with partner agencies. - Leadership experience across a range of services - Demonstrable experience of leading and managing projects and change within an organisation. - Experience of a range of professional leadership and management activities, e.g. recruitment procedures, performance management and appraisals. - Experience of representing one or more professional groups within a professional forum. - Experience of delivering graduate and post-graduate training. - Experience in ensuring management processes and frameworks for Psychological Practitioners working within MH Services. - Experience of developing / providing specialist Psychological Services within MH Services. - Capacity to work collaboratively and closely with a range of Specialist Practitioners delivering Psychological Services from the broad range of professional backgrounds. ## Documents - [Job Description (PDF, KB)](https://www.jobs.leicspart.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=22386&JobId=7292) - [Advert DMH Lead for PP (DOCX, KB)](https://www.jobs.leicspart.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=22387&JobId=7292) - [Information For Applicants - 2025 (PDF, KB)](https://www.jobs.leicspart.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=22155&JobId=7292) ## 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.