# Principal Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinical-psychologist/b493f0ab-29a3-4965-bb9d-23b20b0e11a7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinical-psychologist/b493f0ab-29a3-4965-bb9d-23b20b0e11a7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Hull - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Office hours only. We are open to considering applicants who require part time or flexible working arrangements) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-21T16:12:34.280Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Hull/Humber_Teaching_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Older_Peoples_Mental_Health/Older_Peoples_Mental_Health-v8151857 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8151857?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.humber.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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.) ## Documents - [being humber (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2687) - [staff benefits (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2760) - [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2269) - [application guide & interview tips (pdf, 600.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3021) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10465627) ## 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.