Job Description

ID - 1158

Position:

Head of Psychology

Salary:

80,000 / annum

Shifts Pattern:

37.5 Hours a week

Location:

York YO32

Role Overview

An exciting leadership opportunity to oversee and develop psychological services within a medium-secure care environment. This senior role combines clinical practice, team leadership, service development, and strategic collaboration to ensure excellence in psychologically informed care.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and develop the psychology department, ensuring consistently high standards of clinical and professional practice. Manage a clinical caseload and deliver formulation-led care, including individual psychological assessments and interventions such as EMDR, DBT, CBT, and CAT. Work closely with the senior management team -- including the Hospital Director, Director of Clinical Services, and Medical Director -- to drive service development and quality outcomes. Provide consultation on psychological aspects of organisational functioning, including staff wellbeing and creating a psychologically informed culture. Deliver reflective practice groups, contribute to clinical governance, and embed trauma-informed psychological practices across the service. Lead on clinical and organisational project management, offering training, supervision, and mentorship to the psychology team. Ensure robust clinical governance, adherence to service standards, and ongoing service evaluation and innovation.

Required Qualifications & Experience

Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic Psychology (HCPC/BPS accredited) with current HCPC registration. Extensive experience in forensic or complex mental health settings, including leadership roles within psychological services. Proficiency in psychological assessment, formulation, and delivery of multiple therapeutic modalities (e.g., EMDR, DBT, CBT, CAT). Strong knowledge of clinical governance, safeguarding legislation, equality and diversity, duty of care, and mental health standards. Demonstrated leadership, consultancy, and project-management skills with the ability to supervise staff and drive service-wide change.

Desired Attributes

Experience in trauma-informed care and service configuration or reconfiguration. Track record of delivering reflective practice, training, and staff support to multi-disciplinary teams. Experience with audit, research, or service evaluation to support evidence-based service improvement.
Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Pay: 80,000.00 per year

Application question(s):

When are you available for an interview? How soon can you join us? Do you have required Qualification for this Role ? Do you need a Sponsorship to work in UK ? Do you have experience working as a Head of Psychology within a Hospital ?
Work Location: In person