Principal Clinical Psychologist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£66,582 - £77,368
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Torquay, TQ2 7AA
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	5 Aug 2026
Closing date:	19 Aug 2026

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Summary

Clinical Leadership Lead the Adult Clinical Health Psychology Service, ensuring safe, effective and equitable service delivery. Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for adults with complex physical health conditions, taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models. Undertake highly complex clinical decision-making involving significant levels of uncertainty and risk. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. Act as an expert resource to multidisciplinary teams regarding psychological aspects of physical health conditions. Promote psychologically informed approaches across healthcare services. To provide clinical and service development consultation to other health and social care staff and foster reflective practice in teams. To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. Leadership and Service Development Lead service planning, development and transformation initiatives within Adult Clinical Health Psychology. Lead the development and implementation of policies, practices and procedures for ACHP and wider CHP service Develop and implement service objectives aligned with Trust priorities and national policy. Monitor service performance and activity, ensuring delivery against agreed standards and performance indicators. Contribute to business planning, workforce planning and service redesign initiatives. Support the development and integration of psychological care pathways across acute and community settings. Management Responsibilities Hold line management responsibility for designated psychology staff. Undertake recruitment, achievement and development reviews, performance management and workforce planning activities. Support compassionate and inclusive staff wellbeing, engagement and retention. Ensure effective deployment of staff resources and management of waiting lists and workload allocation. Manage delegated resources where appropriate. Professional Leadership Provide professional leadership and support to staff within the Clinical Health Psychology Service. Maintain high standards of psychological practice in accordance with HCPC, BPS and Trust governance requirements. Lead on professional standards, policies and procedures relating to psychological practice. Support the development of trainees and junior colleagues. Contribute to professional leadership, service meetings and departmental development activities. Act with integrity and professionalism, modelling Trust values and leadership behaviours. Supervision, Teaching and Training Provide clinical and professional supervision to qualified and trainee psychological professionals. Deliver consultation, teaching and training to psychology and multidisciplinary colleagues. Support training placements and relationships with regional training programmes and universities. Maintain ongoing professional development and contribute to departmental learning initiatives. Research, audit and quality improvement Promote a culture of evidence-based practice, service evaluation and continuous improvement. Lead, support and participate in audit, service evaluation and quality improvement activities. Lead, support and contribute to research activity where appropriate. Ensure clinical practice reflects current evidence and professional standards

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