Principal Practitioner Psychologist

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!

Here in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR), we are innovatively transforming ways of working with people with relational and emotional difficulties often described diagnostically as Personality Disorder. As part of this, we are keen for another Principal Psychologist to join us in our secondary care psychologically-led dedicated provision as a Clinical Lead.

The service has over 30 staff, including Psychologists, a Medical Psychotherapist, Peer Support Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. We offer a range of psychological and psychologically-informed approaches within the tradition of trauma-informed care, including Mentalization-Based Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, and a structured clinical management approach. We would be very keen to hear from applicants with an interest and training in any of these approaches. We will support your training and continued professional development in these models to support your delivery of clinical leadership.

The Trust has a substantial service structure with psychologists in lead roles including at directorate level. We have psychologists as pathway leads for community psychology, rehabilitation, psychosis and personality disorder who are supported by psychologists at every grade.

Main duties of the job

We are very pleased to be able to offer this new role to further enhance our services clinical leadership.

The role will offer an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-disciplinary leadership team leading the ongoing transformation of the service. You will work alongside the Consultant Clinical Lead, other Clinical Leads, and Team Managers to lead this change; offering an exciting opportunity to enhance your strategic and clinical leadership skills. You will take a key clinical leadership role in the service alongside other Psychological Clinical Leads. You will be responsible for leading the implementation and delivery of psychological interventions, including Structured Clinical Management. You will be supported by the Consultant Psychologist Lead, who will offer professional, managerial, and clinical supervision. The role will offer a variety of opportunities which will include clinical leadership, direct formulation and intervention, delivering training, service development, group and 1:1 clinical supervision, consultation to others, and service evaluation.

There will be opportunities to shape the role and for continued professional development in areas relevant to service delivery and development. As part of an extensive wider psychology structure you will, through regular networking and supervision, be supported to apply the range of Clinical Psychologist capacities thereby developing yourself and our offers.

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: 26 May 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8b
• Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 006557
• Job locations: Francis Dixon Lodge, Gwendolen House, Gwendolen Road, Leicester, Leicester, LE5 4QF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

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