Principal Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, innovative and inspiring Psychologist to join our Bridgeways Older Adults Teams. The post holder will be the Psychology Clinical Lead (0.6 WTE) within the Bromley Memory Service, alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, with dedicated time to offering neuropsychological assessments and expertise to the dementia assessment process. The role is varied and involves supporting and developing a range of meaningful post-diagnostic interventions and groups to patients, family and carers.

Working in the Bromley Older Adults Community Mental Health Team (0.2 WTE) there is flexibility to be involved in a range of psychological interventions and exciting initiatives. The post holder will join well-established, friendly and diverse multidisciplinary teams. The position would suit an experienced psychologist looking to develop their skills in senior roles, leadership tasks, supervision, operational and strategic development.

Main duties of the job

This is a varied role, which includes providing specialist individual, family and group interventions, neuropsychological assessment, as well as contributing to the therapeutic functions of the teams. You will support the teams with oversight and embedding of NHS transformation and exciting developments in more diverse and new psychological roles, and will contribute to service planning and development, including attendance at relevant management meetings. You will be professionally accountable to the Bromley OPMH Head of Psychological Therapies, and specialist clinical supervision will be provided within the OPMH service. You will also be supported by team managers.

As well as service development and clinical governance roles, we welcome and encourage research and audit interests, including co-producing research with our service users through our programme of service user involvement. Supervision and CPD are prioritised in the Trust, with a range of training and specialist supervision opportunities available. Some of the modalities used in the team are CAT, EMDR, Psychodynamic, CBT, ACT and Art Psychotherapy, with access to the relevant specialist supervision. We encourage trauma-informed working, integrated multidisciplinary working and embrace a wide range of modalities and approaches.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Leadership or management training
• Recognised supervision training

Experience

Essential

• Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with 2 years at a highly specialist level
• Experience working with a wide range of client groups across the life course and across all care settings (outpatients, community, primary care, inpatient, and residential), while maintaining professionalism in highly emotive, distressing, or abusive situations
• Experience exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a care coordinator and within a multidisciplinary care plan.

Desirable

• Experience of working in older people’s mental health services, including people with dementia and their carers.
• Experience in neuropsychological assessment with adults with comorbid mental health/psychological needs
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (eg. Personality disorders, dual diagnoses, people with medically unexplained symptoms, people with additional disabilities, people with dementia, etc).
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.

Closing Date: 28 July 2026