You will offer specialist assessment, formulation and intervention to service-users. Indirect work will include reflective practice and psychologically-informed training and supervising others. You will play a key role in service development, including in further nurturing a psychologically-informed service culture.

The post offers the opportunity to develop leadership qualities and a substantial part of the indirect work will be multi-agency partnership working. Crucially, these services view the difficulties faced by service-users within the socio-political context of their lives and you will be able to develop this aspect of your psychology praxis.

We have strong links to the University of Leicester DClinPsy course; offering teaching sessions, trainee placements and input to the development of the curriculum. Our service is also part of a network of LPT clinical psychologists representing adult mental health, child, learning disability, neuropsychology, health psychology and forensic mental health, and you will be encouraged to be a part of this forum. The Trust has excellent on-line and face to face training sessions and applications for external training are welcomed. There is a substantial range of staff well-being initiatives within the Trust which you will be supported to take up as appropriate. You will also be encouraged to evaluate and research with a Trust QI objective and offer to support staff to publish.

LPT's Homeless Mental Health Service is nationally recognized for our work over three decades with people experiencing homelessness and other forms of severe and multiple disadvantage. You will be encouraged to contribute to the development of the national Psychology in homelessness network and the faculty of homeless mental health.

Shortlisting criteria

Qualifications (Essential Criteria)

• PhD or DClinPsych or equivalent in Clinical Psychology including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS/HCPC.

Experience (Essential Criteria)

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management of risk.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Experience of providing consultation to other staff groups outside clinical psychology.
• Doctoral-level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.