Consultant Clinical Psychologist Acute Care Lead

This is an ideal role for a suitably qualified psychologist with a keen interest in extensive opportunities for service development and supporting patients with complex needs. We have close links to the University of Southampton's clinical psychology training course, and there are regular opportunities to have trainee clinical psychologists on placement.

We can be flexible about hours worked, though you will be asked to participate in team meetings at certain times in the week. Remote working will be limited, as this role requires working with patients on the ward and the CRHTT (Crisis Resolution Home Treatment) team.

You will be expected to hold a couple of long-term cases from the community teams, and there is also potential to work closely with the IOW acute psychology team.

As a senior clinician, with substantial clinical experience and post-qualification training, the post-holder will provide a high level of expertise across the Acute Care Services. The post-holder will oversee and co-ordinate service development and direct delivery of psychological assessment and interventions in line with the current evidence base and best practice.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8c
Salary: £79,504 to £91,609 a year Based on full time hours
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 348-PSE-12828

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice.

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a substantial period with substantial post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
• 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 including outpatient, Acute, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for individuals' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists and psychological therapists
• Experience of multi-professional…