Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Psychologist Hollybank Rehabilitation Service
Lead Psychologist Hollybank Rehabilitation Service
HavantOn-Site
PermanentFull-Time
£66,582 - £77,368per annumFTE
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Description
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Psychologist Hollybank Rehabilitation Service
The closing date is 24 November 2026
Job summary
This is a new position within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust working as the Lead Psychologist within a Rehabilitation Service in the Secure, Acute and Crisis Division. The post holder will provide senior clinical, professional and strategic psychological leadership to Hollybank Rehabilitation Service Level 2. They will support the wider MDT to ensure psychological thinking is embedded throughout the rehabilitation pathway and people receive trauma informed, formulation-driven and recovery-focused care. The role will enable the post holder to develop a psychological model of mental health rehabilitation, help support the development of the Level 1 Rehab Service in Forest Lodge and provide professional leadership/oversight. The post holder will be required to work closely with the Elmleigh psychology team, rehab multidisciplinary team to promote recovery, independence, positive risk-taking and successful transition into community living.
As a key member of the senior leadership team, this role will have significant autonomy to establish, lead, direct and develop all aspects of the Rehab psychology related offer. The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and psychologically informed intervention for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, in psychosis, and complex rehabilitation needs. You will work directly with service users and families/carers where specialist psychological intervention is needed.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide expert consultation regarding complex clinical presentations, risk, rehabilitation planning and barriers to recovery, and will influence the wider system around the individual, including inpatient, community, social care, housing and other partner organisations.
The role will have a particular focus on ensuring that Hollybank functions as a Level 2 therapeutic rehabilitation environment rather than simply a place of residence, with psychological formulation informing assessment, specialist assessments including neuropsychological assessment, care planning, risk management and rehabilitation goals. They will provide reflective and formulation led clinics to ensure wider workforce and people undergoing Rehab are held in a psychologically safe and effective therapeutic space.
The is an exciting new role to help develop and shape Level 2 Rehab offer at Hollybank & Level 1 offer at Forest Lodge. The psychology element is a new and essential component to our revamped model and the postholder will have an opportunity to be part of an exciting new therapeutic development for our HIOW communities.
About us
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 person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted: 11 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 348-SAC-12966
Job locations: Hollybank, 10 Lavant Drive, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2AW, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications (Essential)
Experience (Essential)
Desirable
Additional Criteria (Essential)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Hollybank, 10 Lavant Drive, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2AW, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Hiring Manager, Hannah Boustred, Hannah.boustred@nhs.net
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Lead Psychologist Hollybank Rehabilitation Service
The closing date is 24 November 2026
Job summary
This is a new position within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust working as the Lead Psychologist within a Rehabilitation Service in the Secure, Acute and Crisis Division. The post holder will provide senior clinical, professional and strategic psychological leadership to Hollybank Rehabilitation Service Level 2. They will support the wider MDT to ensure psychological thinking is embedded throughout the rehabilitation pathway and people receive trauma informed, formulation-driven and recovery-focused care. The role will enable the post holder to develop a psychological model of mental health rehabilitation, help support the development of the Level 1 Rehab Service in Forest Lodge and provide professional leadership/oversight. The post holder will be required to work closely with the Elmleigh psychology team, rehab multidisciplinary team to promote recovery, independence, positive risk-taking and successful transition into community living.
As a key member of the senior leadership team, this role will have significant autonomy to establish, lead, direct and develop all aspects of the Rehab psychology related offer. The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and psychologically informed intervention for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, in psychosis, and complex rehabilitation needs. You will work directly with service users and families/carers where specialist psychological intervention is needed.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide expert consultation regarding complex clinical presentations, risk, rehabilitation planning and barriers to recovery, and will influence the wider system around the individual, including inpatient, community, social care, housing and other partner organisations.
The role will have a particular focus on ensuring that Hollybank functions as a Level 2 therapeutic rehabilitation environment rather than simply a place of residence, with psychological formulation informing assessment, specialist assessments including neuropsychological assessment, care planning, risk management and rehabilitation goals. They will provide reflective and formulation led clinics to ensure wider workforce and people undergoing Rehab are held in a psychologically safe and effective therapeutic space.
The is an exciting new role to help develop and shape Level 2 Rehab offer at Hollybank & Level 1 offer at Forest Lodge. The psychology element is a new and essential component to our revamped model and the postholder will have an opportunity to be part of an exciting new therapeutic development for our HIOW communities.
About us
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 person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted: 11 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 348-SAC-12966
Job locations: Hollybank, 10 Lavant Drive, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2AW, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
- Hold clinical responsibility and provide highly specialist psychological/ neuropsychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people with complex and enduring mental health difficulties, such as psychosis, as part of Hollybank Level 2 Rehab offer.
- Take clinical responsibility for a small caseload of highly complex individuals where specialist psychological expertise is required.
- Provide expert consultation to the MDT regarding complex presentations.
- Provide specialist psychological advice regarding risk assessment and management and support the MDT to undertake positive and proportionate risk-taking where this facilitates recovery and independence.
- Provide psychological leadership in complex case reviews, CPA meetings, discharge planning and placement discussions.
- Work directly with service users and families/carers where specialist psychological intervention is indicated.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications (Essential)
- Doctoral level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or equivalent recognised professional qualification.
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Evidence of post-qualification specialist psychological training.
- Qualification/training in supervision.
Experience (Essential)
- Significant post-qualification experience as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
- Substantial experience working with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
- Significant experience of complex psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
- Experience of working within inpatient and/or rehabilitation services.
- Experience of working with complex risk.
- Experience of providing psychological consultation to MDTs.
- Experience of supervising psychologists and/or psychological practitioners.
- Experience of service development and evaluation including setting up services.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of working autonomously.
- Experience of pathway redesign.
Desirable
- Specialist experience in mental health rehabilitation.
- Experience of working with long-term psychosis.
- Experience of trauma-informed approaches.
- Experience of CBT for psychosis.
Additional Criteria (Essential)
- Attributes emotionally intelligent; calm under pressure; skilled in conflict resolution, with influencing and negotiation skills at executive level.
- Commitment to NHS and Trust values, trauma informed principles, and principles of equity, inclusion, compassion and integrity.
- Role model for restorative, transparent, and inclusive leadership.
- Adaptive under pressure.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Hollybank, 10 Lavant Drive, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2AW, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Hiring Manager, Hannah Boustred, Hannah.boustred@nhs.net
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