Skylight Psychologist​/Senior Skylight Psychologist

Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. We have embarked on our new 10-year strategy for ending homelessness. We know it is not inevitable. We know together we can end it.

It is an exciting and important time to be joining us  work with thousands of people across England, Scotland, and Wales so they can leave homelessness behind for good. We have recently adapted the way our services work to maximise our impact in ending homelessness.

Title:

Senior Practitioner Psychologist (internally this role is known as Senior Skylight Psychologist) or Practitioner Psychologist (internally known as Skylight Psychologist)

The Skylight Psychologist role is offered as a development opportunity for candidates in the first 18 months post qualification. There would be the opportunity to progress to the Senior Skylight Psychologist role when they meet the relevant clinical and leadership competencies, in line with Crisis’ Preceptorship Framework.

Qualifications:

You must be a Practitioner Psychologist registered with the HCPC. For the Skylight Psychologist role, we will consider applications from individuals due to complete doctoral training and register with the HCPC in 2026.

Hours:

Part-time, 3 days (21 hours per week), must include Tuesday and Wednesday. Salary:
Full-time salaries are as follows:

• Skylight Psychologist, qualified within the last 18 months:
  • £52,482 per annum FTE
• Senior Skylight Psychologist:
  • 18 months to 4 years qualified - £60,348 per annum FTE
  • 5 to 7 years qualified - £62,509 per annum FTE.
  • 8+ years qualified - £66,697 per annum FTE.

Please note this opportunity is part-time so these salaries will be pro rata. Our salaries are fixed to counter inequity, and we do not negotiate at offer stage.

Location:

Crisis Skylight Brent, 1-2 Bank Buildings, High St, NW10 4LT
. This is a primarily onsite role, so you can support our members and team face to face, but some homeworking may be considered. About the role

We are committed to ending the homelessness of more people using our direct services, including people with complex needs. To do this, we are seeking a part-time Practitioner Psychologists to join our fantastic team in Crisis Skylight London.

You will form part of the local Leadership team, supporting the implementation of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs). You will support the delivery of our work to members by offering training and leading reflective practice for staff and providing direct services to members at times.

You will also be a part of a national psychology team made up of a Lead Clinical Psychologist, a Regional Lead Clinical Psychologist, and nine Practitioner Psychologists as well as Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placements.

In this role, you will be supporting our bold and diverse operation in Brent that includes our non-commissioned Skylight Service, the commissioned and outcome-based Single Homeless Prevention Service and a range of place-based projects . We support around 1800 people affected by homelessness per year and in the last 12 months ended homelessness for 488 people, predominantly by sourcing accommodation in the private rented sector.

You will also be part of the local leadership group and as such get involved in our outward facing place-based work that aims to shape better system responses to homelessness, working with colleagues from the Local Authority and NHS and the local community and voluntary service.

At Crisis, we understand more Practitioner Psychologists are taking on multiple part-time opportunities within the NHS, academia, private practice and the third sector as this has been the case with our own team. Crisis and our members have benefited from employing people with a variety of different work experience. This an…