Principal Clinical Psychologist (Community Lead)
The closing date is 12 July 2026
Responsible for leading psychological care within the Andover Community Mental Health Team, managing qualified Psychology & Psychological Therapies staff, attached assistants, graduate psychologists, clinical associate psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists on placement and clinical psychologists as appropriate.
Responsibilities
- Take clinical leadership responsibility for the implementation and coordination of psychological care for the teams they are responsible for.
- Ensure systematic provision of high‑quality specialist psychological services for individuals and their families/carers, with an emphasis on co‑production and a trauma‑informed approach.
- Undertake complex assessments and intervention strategies, including specialist neuropsychological assessment.
- Offer consultancy and provide expert advice to acute services colleagues and the wider multi‑professional clinical team, other agencies and non‑professional carers.
- Provide leadership, consultation, supervision and support to psychologists and other members of the clinical team who provide psychologically based care and treatment within this setting.
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
About the Trust
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined‑up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community‑based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older people’s care. We also deliver extensive physical health services and neurological rehabilitation across Hampshire.
Qualifications
- Post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Post‑doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy.
- Management training.
- Accreditation as a therapist with BABCP, SfDBT, ACAT or similar body.
Experience
- In‑depth experience of working as a principal clinical psychologist.
- Experience with a wide variety of patient groups across the full life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment within a multi‑professional care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of representing psychology within multidisciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of applying psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of managing staff.
- Experience of providing neuropsychological assessment.
Additional Criteria
- Skills in the use of complex psychological assessment and intervention methods requiring sustained concentration.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, delivering technical, clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and professional colleagues.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of working with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Competence in applying interventions for people with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Ability to explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress in patients and through supervision of other staff.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required to verify previous convictions.
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