Practitioner Psychologist; Clinical, Counselling, Forensic or Health

Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, Forensic or Health)

The closing date is 16 February 2026

If you are passionate about psychology within adult community mental health and being part of supportive multidisciplinary teams, this is the perfect role for you.

The Lincolnshire CMHTs are vibrant, collaborative and supportive. We are motivated to deliver the best service whilst prioritising staff well-being and job satisfaction. We strongly promote CPD and pride ourselves on being a flexible, compassionate employer. We welcome conversations about full/part time, flexible/remote working opportunities.

You will be welcomed into a highly regarded CMHT and the wider multidisciplinary locality as well as a highly skilled and dynamic Psychology division. The vision for this post is for the post-holder to take up the role of team psychologist within the Skegness CMHT, whilst also providing clinical work for the Lincoln-based CMHTs. This arrangement allows flexibility regarding whether the post is based in Lincoln or Skegness, depending on preference.

We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist who already has the competence and experience relevant to a Band 8a position, or a Psychologist who meets the qualification, training and competency for a Band 7 post and can achieve the 8a position through a preceptorship programme.

For further information please contact Eleanor Duke (, East Locality Service Manager) or Dr Amy Richardson (, Lead Psychologist for the East Localities).

The full job description and person specification are attached.

The primary hopes for the role are to:

• Support the embedding of psychologically minded assessment and interventions within our community mental health services.
• To support the team in developing psychologically informed formulation to build a trauma informed understanding of the people who access our services and determine the appropriate treatment pathways that meet their individual needs.
• To provide clinical leadership for the team and enable the implementation of psychologically informed pathways of care and treatment.
• To support a formulation based approach to risk assessment and management that enables considered decision making and responses to individual need.
• To deliver a specialised psychological resource for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems.
• To support co-produced service development within the teams and support research, audit and activities within your interests, expertise and the needs of the service.
• To provide clinical supervision for Trainee psychologists and support the development of new psychologically informed roles.
• To hold a dedicated caseload of individuals allocated from the Lincoln-based teams to provide psychological interventions.
• Newly qualified applicants will be considered for a developmental Band 7 to 8a role over a defined period with a supportive action plan, increased supervision and development

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of "outstanding" for well-led and "good" overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitto find out more.

To be a team psychologist and integrated member of a multi-professional mental health service.

To work as an autonomous psychologist responsible for their own work and carry a personal caseload of team clients.

To complete secondary mental health care psychological assessments, formulations, interventions, and evaluations, both independently and alongside the team.

To provide formal clinical supervision to trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists and to provide a consultation space for the psychology resource within the team.

To support the clinical work of other professions…