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North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust Principal Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 17 November 2026

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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 onensuring 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 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). 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.

Details

Date posted

03 November 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

232-CMT-8346721

Job locations

The Lyme Brook Centre

Stoke on Trent

ST5 7NJ

United Kingdom

Job description

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.

Job description

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 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

Experience

Essential

• 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.

Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence- based practice relevant to the role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 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

Experience

Essential

• 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.

Knowledge

Essential

• 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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

The Lyme Brook Centre

Stoke on Trent

ST5 7NJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

The Lyme Brook Centre

Stoke on Trent

ST5 7NJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Charlotte Morris

[email protected]

Details

Date posted

03 November 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

232-CMT-8346721

Job locations

The Lyme Brook Centre

Stoke on Trent

ST5 7NJ

United Kingdom

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