Clinical ,Counselling or Forensic Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic 0.6 WTE Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist to join Haltemprice CMHT in the East Riding. We are looking for someone with experience of working in community settings with adults presenting with trauma, severe mental health difficulties, and complex needs.

This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside another psychologist within the team and be part of a well-established Adult Mental Health Psychology Service.

Following a recent service reconfiguration, we have appointed two Principal Psychologists to enhance support, supervision, and governance across psychology services in Hull and the East Riding.

The wider psychology team delivers a range of evidence-based therapies, including MBT, DBT, CAT, EMDR, and Family Therapy, and supports initiatives such as SIGs, CAT care planning peer supervision, and Intensive EMDR.

You will provide psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for people with complex and enduring mental health difficulties, using formulation-driven approaches to inform MDT care planning.

The role also includes opportunities to contribute to teaching, service development, quality improvement, and service evaluation. Additional hours may be available through maternity cover and service innovation projects across the wider psychology workforce.

Main duties of the job

Deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, care planning, and individual/group interventions within the team.

Work autonomously and collaboratively to provide clinical leadership, consultation, and evidence-based psychological care.

Contribute to the development and organisation of community psychological services.

Provide consultation and advice on psychological care and risk management to multidisciplinary colleagues and carers.

Deliver clinical supervision to trainees, assistant psychologists, MHWPs, and qualified psychologists within the speciality.

Participate in research, audit, service evaluation, quality improvement, and service development initiatives.

Support staff through training, supervision, reflective practice, team formulations, and active involvement in MDT meetings.

Maintain professional development through peer forums, CPD opportunities, SIGs, group supervision, and clinical, managerial, and professional supervision.

Actively engage in your own clinical and professional development, supported by the wider psychology team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Completed post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical, forensic or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS (or equivalent if qualified before 1996)
• Successful completion of an accredited or locally recognised clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees ie ISW
• To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC
• Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups

Desirable

• Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. complex PTSD, personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc)

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical, forensic or counselling psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific field where the post is held
• 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.

Desirable

• oAbility to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally

Closing Date: 16 September 2026