Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professional
- Grade
- AfC Band 8B
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (FTC until 30/09/2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 301-IT-25-7457440
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- One Recovery Bucks
- Town
- High Wycombe
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Psychologist
AfC Band 8B
Job overview
Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering people who use drug and alcohol treatment services to achieve a better quality of life? Would you like to work for Inclusion, a leading and award winning NHS provider of addiction treatment service in England and part of a forward thinking and innovative NHS trust?
Inclusion has an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our team within One Recovery Bucks, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service for people impacted by their own or someone else’s use of alcohol or drugs. Inclusion is fully committed to developing and embedding trauma informed care.
One Recovery Bucks is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Principal Psychologist (0.4 WTE) to join our dynamic team. As a leading NHS community drug and alcohol treatment service provider, we are committed to delivering exceptional care and support to individuals dealing with substance use issues.
Main duties of the job
• Responsible for the provision of a psychology service to young people and adults accessing community drug & alcohol services. This is to incorporate complex assessments leading to psychological formulations of distress; recommendations for treatment options and evaluation of interventions
• As a senior clinician with specialist post-qualification training, the post holder will take responsibility for development of a specific area of psychological knowledge within the Inclusion psychology team. This may include leading or contributing to training, supervision and governance aspects of the specific therapeutic model or approach.
• To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically informed care and treatment.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
• To utilise research and audit skills to guide service development
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification. A summary is provided below:
- To provide a clinical psychology service to patients, with moderate to severe mental health problems, liaising as appropriate with relevant local mental health services
- To work with clients alone as necessary, or to work jointly with others depending on the relevant risk assessment
- To provide expert psychological assessment, formulation and therapy to an exceptionally high standard to patients with a range of mental health problems
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
- To liaise with relevant professionals within inpatient and community settings, coordinating the delivery of psychology services for adults within the localities where services are provided
- To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the multi-disciplinary team
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling / forensic 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 or therapy
- HCPC registration as a practitioner (clinical/counselling/forensic) psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Must have substantial experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist at a highly specialist level.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing difficulties
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable criteria
- Prior experience of working in drug & alcohol services
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dan Harber
- Job title
- Acting Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07470 972 729
- Additional information
- If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Dan as we would love to hear from you.**** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.********This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****
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