Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist(UK Visa Sponsorship)

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist to join our Access to Mental Wellbeing Team. This senior post sits within a compassionate, multi-disciplinary mental health service that supports people across County Durham & Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

This role involves delivering expert clinical psychological care, offering supervision, and contributing to service leadership and development. Applicants must hold doctoral-level psychology training and be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Role Purpose

As a senior applied psychologist, you will:

• Provide direct clinical work with people experiencing complex and severe mental health problems.
• Promote psychological thinking across the team by supporting staff to develop formulations and reflective practice.
• Offer clinical supervision, training, and professional development for colleagues and trainees.
• Provide specialist assessment, formulation, and delivery of evidence-based interventions.
• Support staff wellbeing and contribute to service improvements.
• Provide professional leadership and contribute to clinical governance.

About the Team

The Access to Mental Wellbeing Team offers psychological supports across a range of care settings. Our philosophy emphasises recovery, collaboration, and evidence-based practice. We work with people with complex presentations including psychosis, personality-related distress, and individuals with co-occurring needs.

We are connected to academic training pathways, including strong links with the local clinical psychology training programme, providing opportunities for supervision, teaching, research and service evaluation.

What We Are Looking For

Essential Qualifications & Registrations

You must have:

• Doctoral level training in Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
• Current registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Post-doctoral training in additional specialist areas of practice.
• Training in clinical supervision (including doctoral trainee supervision).
• Training in care coordination.
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD).

Desirable

• Current BPS Chartership or Higher Qualification.
• Experience working collaboratively across statutory, voluntary and private sectors.

Experience & Skills

You will have:

• Significant experience working as a qualified psychologist with people with severe mental health problems.
• Experience exercising full clinical responsibility as a care coordinator in a multidisciplinary context.
• Demonstrated experience in training, teaching and supervising others.
• Doctoral-level understanding of risk assessment/management, clinical governance, relevant legislation, and research methodology.
• Knowledge of the mental health social inclusion agenda.

Personal Attributes

You should be:

• Able to engage sensitively and effectively with people in high distress.
• Flexible, resilient, and professionally self-aware.
• Comfortable working both autonomously and collaboratively.
• Committed to ongoing professional learning and reflective practice.

Other Requirements

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Applicants requiring visa sponsorship are welcome. Guidance on the UK skilled worker route is available here:
UK Visas and Immigration – Skilled Worker Visa 

Overseas applicants must provide criminal record certificates from countries they have lived in for 12+ months over the last 10 years.

Why Work With Us?

We offer:

• A supportive team environment with strong clinical leadership.
• Opportunities for professional development and CPD.
• Engagement in teaching, research and audit.
• Meaningful involvement with service improvement.
• A culture that values staff wellbeing and reflective practice.