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Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Principal Clinical Psychologist to join the Older People’s Mental Health Service. The postholder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for older adults experiencing a range of functional mental health difficulties, including depression, anxiety, psychosis, complex emotional needs, and challenges associated with physical health, ageing and life transitions. The role requires expertise in developing formulation-driven understandings of the interaction between psychological, social, physical and, where relevant, cognitive factors affecting mental wellbeing in later life. This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established Older People’s Psychology Department providing specialist psychological input across the wider service. Working autonomously and within a supportive team, the postholder will provide clinical leadership, consultation and expert psychological care across planned and unplanned care services. The role includes clinical and professional supervision of trainee, assistant and qualified psychologists, supporting workforce development and high-quality practice. Working alongside the Professional Lead, psychology colleagues and wider stakeholders, the postholder will contribute to teaching, service development, quality improvement and service evaluation, helping to embed evidence-based and psychologically informed approaches throughout the older adult care pathway
Main duties of the job
To ensure the systematic development and provision of highly specialist psychological assessments and treatment within a clinical area/division, by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.
To co-ordinate the planning and organisation of specialist psychological services within the locality area as agreed with the Clinical Lead/Operational Manager
To provide clinical supervision and to offer advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care and risk management to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers.
To work alongside other teams and agencies providing expert consultancy regarding service provision for people accessing Trust services
To continue to demonstrate advanced psychological skills in practice and the delivery of the highest quality of care in collaboration with service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies across a number of teams/geographical areas.
To take a lead in contributing/advising the psychological perspective in reviewing, developing and monitoring operational/clinical policy, proposing changes which may impact beyond own area of work To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the relative service area.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
With regards to this vacancy, please refer to the job description and person specification for further information.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching
- Good time management skills
- Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
- Be able to demonstrate leadership/ management skills at an advanced level
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 the full range of care settings
- Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
- Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level.
Desirable
- A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS
- Current HCPC registration
- Clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc.)
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This advert is for Principal Clinical Psychologist with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust in Hull, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Aug 2026.
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