Job Description

Job Overview

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We have an excellent opportunity for a Part time Band 8A Clinical Psychologist to join our AMH Urgent Care/Planned Care services providing input to the Homeless Mental Health Service (HMHS) specifically supporting people with substance use difficulties.


This post is 22.5 hours per week, which can be worked flexibly, based at OSL House, LE19 1XU.


The post sits within our award-winning Homeless Mental Health Service (HMHS) supporting a Public Health initiative to reach those who are rough sleeping with substance use difficulties within the City. This role is expected to include some street outreach work and clinical work in venues where those experiencing homelessness feel comfortable (e.g. frequently from city centre hostels and day centres).


The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.


We also offer:


A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days, increasing to 29 days after 5 years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service

Free onsite parking Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance Health and Wellbeing Support Various Staff Support Networks

For further information or informal discussion please do not hesitate to contact one of the following:

Suzanne Elliott 0116 295 8442 suzanne.elliott13@nhs.net

Dani Harker-Brown 0116 295 8442 danielle.harker-brown1@nhs.net

Cathryn Richardson 0116 295 3098 cathryn.richardson@nhs.net

Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

You will work alongside 2 established 8b Clinical Psychologists who will offer regular clinical supervision, line management and ad hoc support.


You will offer specialist assessment, formulation and intervention to service-users. Indirect work will include reflective practice, psychologically-informed training and supervising others. You will play a key role in service development, including in further nurturing a psychologically-informed service culture.


The post offers the opportunity to develop leadership qualities and a substantial part of the indirect work will be multi-agency partnership working. Crucially, these services view the difficulties faced by service-users within the socio-political context of their lives and you will be able to develop this aspect of your psychology praxis.


We have strong links to the University of Leicester DClinPsy course; offering teaching sessions, trainee placements and input to the development of the curriculum. Our service is also part of a network of LPT clinical psychologists representing adult mental health, child, learning disability, neuropsychology, health psychology and forensic mental health, and you will be encouraged to be a part of this forum. The Trust has excellent on-line and face to face training sessions and applications for external training are welcomed. There is a substantial range of staff well-being initiatives within the Trust which you will be supported to take up as appropriate. You will also be encouraged to evaluate and research, with a Trust QI objective being to support staff to publish.


LPT's Homeless Mental Health Service is nationally recognized for our work over three decades with people experiencing homelessness and other forms of severe and multiple disadvantage. You will be encouraged to contribute to the development of the national psychology in homelessness network and the faculty of homeless mental health.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us


Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.


We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.


Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.


We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.


For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).


All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.


For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.


Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.