Consultant Applied Psychologist

Haringey GP Federation; Selby; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS mental health provider in Selby is offering a part-time role as a Consultant Applied Psychologist. The position involves leading a multidisciplinary team to support prison leavers with complex health needs, ensuring they receive appropriate healthcare services after release. Candidates should have postgraduate training in psychology and demonstrate experience within diverse client groups. This role promises a crucial contribution to mental health services aiming for rehabilitation and support in the community.

Qualifications

• Must have substantial experience in applied psychology with various client groups.
• Experience in leadership roles within multidisciplinary teams.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in relevant fields.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary team to support individuals transitioning from prison.
• Deliver psychological interventions and support to prison leavers.
• Ensure quality of care and assurance through interdisciplinary collaboration.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Project management

Risk assessment

Evidence-based practice

Teaching and training

Education

Post-graduate training in psychology

HCPC registration

Job description

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Applied Psychologist

The closing date is 27 January 2026We have an exciting part time (30 hours) opportunity for an experienced applied psychologist – fixed term (12 months) to undertake the Consultant Applied Psychologist – gradient Clinical Lead role within the North East-wide Enhanced Reconnect Service.

The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team to support prison leavers with complex health needs in overcoming barriers to accessing healthcare services upon their release from custody. The post holder will work in both prison and community settings across the North East to support people in the final months of their sentence and up to a year post-release.

The model adopted by the Enhanced Reconnect Service is psychologically‑led, trauma‑informed and neuro‑diverse. The service offers interventions, structured support, advocacy, signposting and engagement with community‑based health and support services.

Main duties of the job

This role is in the Enhanced Reconnect Service, based at Lanchester Road Hospital and covering the whole of the North East. The service is one of four Deinen National pilots supporting prison leavers assessed as presenting high risk of harm with complex health needs linked with their offending. The service prioritises individuals convicted of terrorism‑related offences and those identified as at risk of extremism. One of the national pilot objectives is to address health needs that if left unmet could lead to extremist behaviours. The postholder will work closely with probation/prison colleagues and willSys excellent working relationships with health and care services across the area.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care – our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

To provide the overarching leadership to the service ensuring a psychological, trauma-informed approach is adopted and lead on the delivery of this enhanced pathway of care. To provide assurance to senior management and commissioners on-awaited the quality of care that is provided. You will support senior management with liaison with Integrated Care Systems and Provider Collaboratives to ensure a smooth and planned journey through the care system. You will liaise and work closely with providers in prison establishments to support release planning that is relevant, accessible and appropriate for those in the Enhanced Reconnect cohort. You will oversee a referral pathway that allows stepping up and down to the Enhanced Reconnect service in line with the service specification, namely the 3 classifications of 1. National Security Division; 2. At Risk of Extremism; 3. Regional Probation Service identified as very high/high risk and complex.

You will offer specialist assessment and interventions for this complex group of individuals within the criminal justice system. You will support complex case management through coordinated interventions, support and riskუპ management from multiple agencies (i.e. health, criminal justice, local authorities, substance misuse, employment and voluntary sector organisations). The majority of this service will be delivered within local approved premises.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team and will work alongside and with health‑care navigators and peer support workers with Rethink Mental Illness and Humankind.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• Trained in care co‑ordination
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Registration with BPS

Experience

• Must have substantial experience of: Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients'/cloud psychological care as a care co‑ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team.
• Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
• Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
• Research and development
• Project management of quality and service improvement initiatives
• Must have experience of: Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non‑qualified members of the refinuer profession.

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of: Evidence‑based practice relevant to the role
• Risk assessment and risk management
• Clinical governance
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice.
• Audit and research methodology
• Social Inclusion agenda
• Highly developed knowledge of: The care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour.
• The Trust's Quality Improvement System.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Tees Esk andèque Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

£76,965 to £88,682 a year pro rata, per annum