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Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Adult Inpatients

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Hull, HU3 5QEView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£66,582 to £77,368

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

4 November 2026

14 days left

Job description

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 ...

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.

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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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

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

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