Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, Forensic or Health)

If you are passionate about psychology within adult community mental health and being part of supportive multidisciplinary teams, this is the perfect role for you.

The Early Intervention in Psychosis service in Lincolnshire is vibrant, collaborative and supportive. We are motivated to deliver the best service whilst prioritising staff well-being and job satisfaction. We strongly promote CPD and pride ourselves on being a flexible, compassionate employer. We welcome conversations about full/part time, flexible/remote working opportunities.

You will be welcomed into a highly regarded service and the wider multidisciplinary team as well as a highly skilled and dynamic Psychology resource. Whilst you will predominantly work from your main base, you will be expected to do clinic days in others bases due to the countywide nature of the service.

We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist who already has the competence and experience relevent to an 8a position, or a Psychologist who meets the qualification, training and competency for a Band 7 post and can achieve the 8a position through a preceptorship programme. If the post holder does not hold a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) qualification, they will be expected to complete a CBTp course from Autumn 2026.

For further information please contact Lucy Pearce (lucy.pearce2@nhs.net, Early Intervention in Psychosis Service Manager) or Dr Cheryl Stelfox (c.stelfox@nhs.net, Consultant Psychologist).

The full job description and person specification are attached. The primary hopes for the role are to:

To embed psychological assessment and interventions within the EIP service.

To support the team in developing psychologically informed formulation to build an understanding of the people who access our services and determine the appropriate treatment pathways to meet their clinical needs.

To provide clinical leadership for the team and enable the implementation of psychologically informed pathways of care and treatment.

To support a formulation based approach to risk assessment and management that enables considered decision making and responses to individual need.

To deliver a specialised psychological resource for adults with First Episode Psychosis.

To support coproduced service development within the team and support research, audit and activities within your interests, expertise and the needs of the service.

To provide clinical supervision for Trainee psychologists and Psychological Intervention Facilitators.

To hold a dedicated caseload of individuals allocated from the countywide team to provide psychological interventions.

To deliver CBTp interventions in line with NICE guidelines and to support KPI targets.

Newly qualified applicants will be considered for a developmental Band 7 to 8a role over a defined period in line with the Trust preceptorship policy.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Pearce Job title: Service Manager EiP/Perinatal Email address: lucy.pearce2@nhs.net Telephone number: 01522 421757

Or c.stelfox@nhs.net