# Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** North View
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Psychologist
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-01T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17T10:10:44.002Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Eccles_Salford/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8264785
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8264785?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are excited to invite applications for the role of Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Principal Psychological Therapist, to work across and provide clinical leadership to psychology staff within the three Salford Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT’s, working age adults) in relation to all aspects of direct and indirect psychological work.

We are seeking an innovative, responsive, and adaptable Principal Psychologist / Psychological Therapist who will drive service development, support the wider team, and promote collaborative, team-based ways of working that deliver high-quality care and positive outcomes for service users.

### Main duties of the job

The post holder will maintain oversight of the work of more junior psychologists/psychological therapists and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners based within the three CMHTs. They will ensure that all psychological aspects of CMHT service provision continue to be maintained at the highest possible standards, ensuring people who use the service, and their carers/families, receive high quality care.

The postholder will maintain an overview of non-psychology practitioners’ psychosocial intervention work via the provision of co-working opportunities and case formulation, clinical supervision, reflective practice, and training sessions as needed.

They will provide expert psychological assessment, formulation, consultation, and intervention, and play a key role in the continued development of the Psychological Therapies Hub and the wider transformation of community mental health services.

The successful candidate will be trained/accredited, or willing to undertake training/accreditation, in one of the six core therapeutic modalities: SCM, MBT, EMDR, CBT-P&B, CAT, or BFT.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Understanding of a trauma informed approach to distress and the value and purpose of therapeutic relationships as a tool for intervention

### Experience

**Essential**

- Demonstrable significant post-qualification experience of specialist psychological work with adults with complex needs within a secondary care setting and MDT
- Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision and consultation to psychologists, psychological therapists, or other core health professions and non-therapists
- Experience of leadership (e.g. clinical leadership, teaching/training, leading service development, chairing meetings)

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- qualification - doctorate in clinical/counselling psychology or accredited psychological therapist in a NICE recommended talking therapy e.g., accredited CBT therapist, accredited CAT therapist.

**Desirable**

- Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g., CAT, CBT, EMDR etc.).

## Documents

- [8b psychologist jd & ps (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10580439)
- [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931)
- [8b psychological therapist jd & ps (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10580440)

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