Job summary
We are seeking a team member for our Adult Mental Health Crisis and Inpatient Pathway.

Would you like to join us as a full time permanent band 7 to 8a development role as a clinical or counselling psychologist? We are ideally looking for someone with prior experience of working within a hospital environment supporting adults with trauma, severe MH difficulties and complex needs.

This is an opportunity to work alongside other psychologists and assistant psychologists with the support of a senior psychologist within a flexible hub model whilst retaining a main base,ward identity and presence, which would be Newbridges 18 bedded male inpatient treatment unit.

The role involves working in your main ward, assessment and treatment wards as well as crisis pathway.

You will provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation to help people as they enter and leave our service with opportunity to finish short term pieces of work in the community if necessary and liaison with wider services to provide a consistent, safe, trauma informed patient pathway. You will support teams through reflective practice, team formulations and providing supervision, consultation and specialist psychological advice

Working alongside the Principal Psychologist for the inpatient services, the postholder will contribute to teaching, service development, quality improvement and service evaluation, embedding evidence-based and psychologically informed approaches throughout the Inpatient Services.

Main duties of the job
Delivering systematic provision of specialist psychological assessments, joint assessments, formulation, care planning and individual/ group interventions within the inpatient setting, by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.

Working autonomously and within a supportive team, you will provide clinical guidance and advice with evidence based and bespoke psychological care to the service users.

To contribute to the planning and organisation of inpatient services.

To provide clinical supervision to assistants and to offer advice and consultation on service users' psychological care and risk management to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers.

To engage in research, audit, service evaluations, service developments and quality improvement initiatives.

To provide support for staff development including training, group supervision, team formulation sessions, reflective practice and to play an active role within the MDT meetings.

Staying connected to your colleagues professionally and ensuring you are supported through regular attendance at Inpatient Psychology Hub meetings, AMH Specialty meetings, Trustwide Psychology CPD days, CPD, SIGs, group supervision, your clinical, managerial and professional supervision.

About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our websiteWe are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Details
Date posted: 26 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: Depending on experience £49, 387- £64, 750
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 338-8247259-26
Job locations: Newbridges Inpatient Unit, Birkdale Way, Hull, HU9 2BH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent as accredited by the BPS

Desirable

• Evidence of policy implementation and development
• Evidence of undertaking research

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings

Desirable

• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts

Skills and competencies
Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and Diversity

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.