Job summary
Are you looking to further develop your career within a supportive and innovative service? If so, this could be the next role for you. We are seeking a motivated and experienced Principal Clinical Psychologist to join the Community Mental Health Directorate, based at the Lyme Brook Centre, Newcastle-under-Lyme. The role is primarily office-based, with some flexibility for remote working.

PLEASE NOTE THAT INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD IN PERSON AT THE LYME BROOK CENTRE.

Our service provides a range of evidence-based clinical pathways for people experiencing complex mental health difficulties, including complex trauma, interpersonal difficulties, and psychosis. We work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality, psychologically informed care.

This post offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your expertise in delivering psychological interventions while gaining valuable experience in leadership, supervision, and service development. You will work within an integrated multidisciplinary team alongside a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and other psychological practitioners.

Main duties of the job
The service is committed to supporting continuing professional development and provides excellent opportunities for supervision, research, audit, and quality improvement initiatives. We maintain strong links with the Staffordshire University Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Programme.

About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.

Job responsibilities
We have strong links with services across the Trust and with VCSE partners, enabling us to provide joined-up care and ensure service users receive timely and effective support. There are opportunities to develop specialist skills in a range of therapeutic approaches through NHSE funded training such as CAT, CBT and EMDR. We also offer access to specialist supervision and interest groups in a variety of models.

Essential Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist

Essential Experience

• Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
• Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
• Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.

Essential Knowledge

• Evidence-based practice relevant to the role

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Contact
Contact name: Charlotte Morris (Consultant Clinical Psychologist)
Email: charlotte.morris@combined.nhs.uk

Closing date: 17 November 2026

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The Trust is committed to equality of opportunity and diversity.