Lead Principal Practioner Psychologist AOT/GRIP: Sponsorship Available

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking for a dynamic skilled and experienced practitioner psychologist to join our mental health service working with adults with psychosis. This is an exciting time to be joining the Trust as we are looking at improving our services for people experiencing psychosis and bipolar disorder and expanding the psychological provision in our teams.

Working across a number of community teams you will provide expertise in both direct clinical work and leadership/supervision of teams in psychological approaches to care.

This is a key clinical leadership role, working within teams and responsible for continuing to drive and embed the significant work already undertaken to develop services for people with psychosis across Gloucestershire.

The post holder will be responsible for providing highly-specialist advice and consultancy to staff, teams, and patients with direct responsibility for the provision of psychological services within the teams, including supervision of other psychological professionals including assistants and trainees. They will also have a key role to play in service development and quality improvement across care pathways.

Main duties of the job

This role covers teams based in Gloucester, Cheltenham and across the county. All reasonable flexible working requests will be considered, but the post holder will be expected to work across sites in line with service need.

Our specialist mental health services work with adults with severe mental health problems. About 60% of the people we work with have experienced psychosis, and we aim to provide psychologically and trauma informed care and evidence based interventions including CBT-P and Family Therapy.

In this role you will:

Work as part of MDT’s providing specialist psychological formulation, assessment and direct care.

Provide supervision, reflective practice and consultation/advice to colleagues and teams,

Contribute to quality improvement and service development, including research and development activities such as teaching.

Leading workstreams on psychological approaches to care, and specifically working as a part of our developing psychosis pathways

Line manage, supervise and support other psychological professionals, assistants and trainees.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Appropriate qualification for role
  • HCPC or other appropriate professional registration

Desirable

  • CBT-Psychosis / Family Therapy Qualifications (0-1-2)

Experience

Essential

  • Working with client group adults smhp psychosis
  • experience of working in AMH MDT

Desirable

  • Experience of being care coordinator
  • Experience of working at highly specialist level

Skills

Essential

  • Hold driving license
  • Ability to participate in all mandatory and statutory training

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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