# Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Adult Inpatients > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-practitioner-psychologist-adult-inpatients/6a1f9afc-fce0-4f9f-b7c5-70bd3b6fc9a7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-practitioner-psychologist-adult-inpatients/6a1f9afc-fce0-4f9f-b7c5-70bd3b6fc9a7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Miranda House - **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 (Monday to Friday - generally 9 to 5 with some flexibility to accommodate IP working hours when needed . Weekend working not expected.) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T11:50:37.497Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Hull/Humber_Teaching_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Mental_Health_Inpatient_Psychology/Adult_Mental_Health_Inpatient_Psychology-v8321732 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8321732?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.humber.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you interested in shaping a new Women’s Mental Health Pathway including an Enhanced Care Unit (ECU)? If you are an experienced psychologist ready to offer leadership to adult inpatient mental health services, we have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Practitioner Psychologist working into the treatment wards and ECU due to open in Spring 2027. We are looking for a person with significant post-qualification experience in adult mental health settings, ideally for women, developing trauma informed pathways and service delivery . The successful applicant will join the adult inpatient psychology hub, comprising friendly and engaged psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists and be part of the broader divisional psychology team with community-based colleagues. You will be responsible for co-ordinating the systematic provision of psychological care to the treatment pathway and the ECU, working closely with your peer Principal Psychologist for Crisis & Assessment Pathway and a counselling psychology trained AC within the ECU. The USPs of this role are working with experienced senior peer support, the opportunity to shape a new women’s pathway and service, steering the model for hub-working across the teams and developing patient focussed pathways between inpatient and community Neighbourhood Teams as they come into fruition . Please see the additional document for more about the vision for the ECU and the inpatient psychology provision going forward. ### Main duties of the job Providing senior clinical leadership within inpatient treatment services with the inpatient psychology team including co-ordinating and supporting the delivery and governance of high-quality psychological services across the treatment wards and the ECU. Promoting the role of psychology within the service and offering professional guidance, training, consultation, supervision and support to the inpatient MDT to aid development and support staff wellbeing. Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and bespoke short-term therapy for individuals with complex mental health needs utilising evidence-based practice. The provision for continuing providing longer-term therapy when people have been discharged back into the community is currently under review. This will require support from the Principal Psychologist in reviewing the need for this. Contributing to service development and service delivery at a senior level, promoting a trauma informed approach within the service and working with senior colleagues to develop and establish the Women’s MH pathway across the treatment units but specifically the 18 bedded female treatment ward and the 6 bedded ECU. The role will also involve supporting workforce development in line with service need and contributing to a positive culture. This will be based upon service evaluation and national guidance. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification as well as the additional information document. We would be happy to answer any questions and speak to you about the role. ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Able to demonstrate effective communication skills - Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change - Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others - Evidence of resiliency when working with challenging client groups **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** - Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. - 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 - Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision - Be able to effectively Chair meetings **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 - Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical, forensic or counselling psychology or its equivalent if qualified before 1993accredited by the BPS - Current HCPC registration - Clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees - Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups - To take a senior clinical role in partnership with the clinical team in managing complex cases **Desirable** - Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to this client group - Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area - Leadership or management qualification ## 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) - [job description and personal spec (pdf, 232.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10713162) - [application guide & interview tips (pdf, 600.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3021) - [additional information about the role (pdf, 136.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10666323) ## 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.