Principal Psychologist

Are you an experienced and compassionate Psychologist looking for an opportunity to combine clinical excellence with leadership and service development? Join Farmfield Hospital as the Principal Psychologist to play a key role in shaping and delivering high-quality psychological services within a specialist multidisciplinary environment.
As Principal Psychologist, you will provide clinical leadership, expert psychological assessment, and evidence-based therapeutic interventions for individuals with complex mental health needs. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will help ensure service users receive high-quality, person-centred care that supports recovery and positive outcomes.
You will undertake comprehensive psychological assessments, develop formulations, and deliver a range of therapeutic interventions tailored to individual needs. Using your advanced clinical expertise, you will provide specialist input into treatment planning, make complex clinical decisions, and support the delivery of effective, evidence-based care.
Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will contribute to the development and coordination of psychology services, ensuring high professional standards and promoting continuous improvement. You will provide consultation, guidance, and psychological expertise to colleagues across the service, helping to embed psychologically informed approaches and support the wider multidisciplinary team.
A key aspect of the role will be providing supervision, training, and professional support to psychology colleagues and other staff groups, helping to develop capability and enhance the quality of care delivered across the service. You will also contribute to risk assessment and management processes, offering specialist advice on the psychological needs of service users and supporting safe, effective decision-making.
As a senior member of the clinical team, you will play an important role in service development and quality improvement. You will contribute to audits, research, policy development, and service evaluation activities, using data and evidence to enhance clinical practice and improve outcomes for service users.
If you're passionate about clinical leadership, innovation, and delivering outstanding psychological care, we'd love to hear from you.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
An Honours Degree in Psychology, or an equivalent qualification, recognised for graduate membership of the BPS.
A Doctoral Degree in a Practitioner Psychology discipline or an equivalent qualification recognised by the HCPC.
HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Proficient knowledge of diverse clinical presentations.
Proficient knowledge of psychological theories and models underpinning assessment, formulation and intervention.
Proficient knowledge of evidence-based psychological interventions.
Proficient awareness of service user individualised needs and contexts.
Proficient knowledge of psychometrics and use of validated assessment tools.
Proficient knowledge of statistical procedures, research methods, audit processes, and outcome evaluation.
Proficient knowledge of clinical risk assessment, safeguarding and legal/ethical frameworks relevant to clinical practice.
Ability to identify and proactively resolve problems within a service.
Understanding of clinical governance, policy frameworks and legislation in relation to clinical presentations and particular service user group.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriate record keeping.
Eligible for Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) status with the BPS. (D)
Evidence of postgraduate study in a subject relevant to the study of Psychology. (D)
Specialised training or experience in a relevant area of Psychology. (D)
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