# Principal Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-psychologist/565ae268-a9a4-400e-90cb-81ff0319dad5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-psychologist/565ae268-a9a4-400e-90cb-81ff0319dad5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Manchester - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-24T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-10T09:00:45.579Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Manchester/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Psychology_education/Clinical_Psychology_education-v8027650 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8027650?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview GMMH are seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist with the passion, expertise, and leadership skills to shape the training experience of our trainee clinical psychologists. We are recruiting a Principal Clinical Psychologist to work closely with the Chief Psychological Professions Officer and senior GMMH clinical psychologists to ensure high‑quality training, support, and development for GMMH‑employed trainee clinical psychologists. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, supportive team of senior clinical psychologists and administrative colleagues, acting as a practice educator and champion for clinical psychology training within the Trust. We are looking for someone with strong clinical leadership experience, a solid understanding of clinical psychology training, and the confidence to guide and support trainees throughout their training journey. The postholder will play a pivotal role in helping GMMH meet its responsibilities under the NHSE education agreement and in maintaining a safe, inclusive, and effective learning environment. If you are passionate about developing future clinical psychologists and want to make a meaningful impact on training within a large and diverse mental health Trust, we would love to hear from you. ### Main duties of the job Main Duties of the Role The postholder will: - Provide line management support to GMMH‑employed trainee clinical psychologists on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme. - Ensure GMMH meets its obligations under the NHSE education agreement. - Support trainees who require reasonable adjustments, ensuring equitable access to training. - Promote and maintain a positive, psychologically safe learning culture within GMMH clinical psychology training. - Work closely with trainees, the University of Manchester Programme team, and GMMH clinical psychologists who offer training placements. - Contribute to the development and coordination of high‑quality training experiences across the Trust. Training, ongoing supervision, and support from senior GMMH colleagues will be provided where needed. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification Staff benefits - Pay Enhancements:  – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays. - 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years - Excellent pension - Cycle to work scheme - Salary sacrifice car scheme - Wellbeing programme - Blue Light Card Discounts - fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles) Our GMMH Trust Values and behaviour framework are part of what makes us different. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. The appointee will be expected to embrace the values and behaviour framework and embed these into the learning environment they support. ## Job Details GMMH are seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist with the passion, expertise, and leadership skills to shape the training experience of our trainee clinical psychologists. We are recruiting a Principal Clinical Psychologist to work closely with the Chief Psychological Professions Officer and senior GMMH clinical psychologists to ensure high‑quality training, support, and development for GMMH‑employed trainee clinical psychologists. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, supportive team of senior clinical psychologists and administrative colleagues, acting as a practice educator and champion for clinical psychology training within the Trust. We are looking for someone with strong clinical leadership experience, a solid understanding of clinical psychology training, and the confidence to guide and support trainees throughout their training journey. The postholder will play a pivotal role in helping GMMH meet its responsibilities under the NHSE education agreement and in maintaining a safe, inclusive, and effective learning environment. If you are passionate about developing future clinical psychologists and want to make a meaningful impact on training within a large and diverse mental health Trust, we would love to hear from you. ## Job Description Main Duties of the Role The postholder will: Provide line management support to GMMH‑employed trainee clinical psychologists on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme. Ensure GMMH meets its obligations under the NHSE education agreement. Support trainees who require reasonable adjustments, ensuring equitable access to training. Promote and maintain a positive, psychologically safe learning culture within GMMH clinical psychology training. Work closely with trainees, the University of Manchester Programme team, and GMMH clinical psychologists who offer training placements. Contribute to the development and coordination of high‑quality training experiences across the Trust. Training, ongoing supervision, and support from senior GMMH colleagues will be provided where needed. ## Responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification Staff benefits Pay Enhancements: – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years Excellent pension Cycle to work scheme Salary sacrifice car scheme Wellbeing programme Blue Light Card Discounts fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles) Our GMMH Trust Values and behaviour framework are part of what makes us different. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. The appointee will be expected to embrace the values and behaviour framework and embed these into the learning environment they support. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge and awareness of staff requiring reasonable adjustments, how to support them and meet their needs. **Desirable** - Experience of supporting staff with additional needs, disability passports and academic support. ### Experience **Essential** - Further specialist managerial experience and training, including supervision, management and training of clinical psychology staff. Significant experience of service development and leadership. Experience of developing assessments, formulations and therapeutic intervention to people presenting with complex mental health problems. **Desirable** - Worked within a trauma-informed environment. - Experience of clinical psychology training or staff management - Experience of providing supervision and training to multi-disciplinary staff ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - Doctoral degree in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) - Current HCPC registration as a clinical psychologist. **Desirable** - Further post graduate or specialist training in psychology leadership / staff management ## Documents - [practice educator (pdf, 288.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10314761) - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) ## 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.