Practitioner Psychologist (Band 7/ 8A) - Welcome Bonus inLeicester inLeicester PUBLISHED 21 AUG 2024

You will have the opportunity to enhance the breath of your psychological skills through a variety of supervision opportunities and continued professional development.
Job Overview


Here in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR), we are innovatively transforming our ways of working with people with relational and emotional needs. This includes developing a Primary Care and Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE) hub, to promote psychologically- and trauma-informed ways of working.

We are keen for a Band 8a, or at Band 7 on a preceptorship, to join us in our pathway. There will be opportunities to work in our transforming secondary care provision and/or work to develop and deliver the Primary Care and Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE) hub.


Working as a psychologist in Leicestershire Partnership Trust


The Trust has a substantial service structure with psychologists in lead roles including at directorate level. We have psychologists as pathway leads for complex trauma, psychosis, and personality disorders who are supported by psychologists at every grade. There are therefore clear career paths for psychologists who join us and we are committed to your development through training and supervision.

We support our psychologists to employ the full range of their skills, and to divide their time accordingly. You will be able to participate in teaching, training, research, service development, supervision, team supervision, reflective practice, and direct clinical work for individuals and groups. It is a great place to be a psychologist, as we get to shape the services people need.


This post attracts a Welcome Bonus of £5,000.
This comprises of an initial payment of £1800 pro rata to hours worked (payable with your first salary); a further payment of £1800 pro rata to hours worked after 12 months service and a final payment of £1400 pro rata to hours worked after 18 months service. Qualifying criteria and Scheme Rules do apply, including a minimum tenure in post of 24 months to avoid any repayment. Full details are available upon request.

To discuss this role please contact - Amanda Tetley, Service Lead/Consultant Psychologist (T .


Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)


This is an exciting time to join the pathway for relational and emotional needs. You will join over 30 staff, where you will work with the Consultant Psychologist, Principal Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Medical Psychotherapist, Peer Support Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. You will help our population through direct and indirect interventions, delivering individual and group interventions and through supervision, training, and consultation. We have practitioners in the service experienced in Mentalization-Based Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Structured Clinical Management, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, trauma approaches, and in delivering integrative psychological approaches.

You will have the opportunity to enhance the breath of your psychological skills through a variety of supervision opportunities and continued professional development. You will have the opportunity to further develop your leadership and service development skills. We will support your development through internal and external training programmes.

We have strong links to the University of Leicester and you can be involved in teaching, trainee placements, and input.


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.
Job Overview

Here in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR), we are innovatively transforming our ways of working with people with relational and emotional needs. This includes developing a Primary Care and Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE) hub, to promote psychologically- and trauma-informed ways of working.

We are keen for a Band 8a, or at Band 7 on a preceptorship, to join us in our pathway. There will be opportunities to work in our transforming secondary care provision and/or work to develop and deliver the Primary Care and Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise sector (VCSE) hub.

Working as a psychologist in Leicestershire Partnership Trust

The Trust has a substantial service structure with psychologists in lead roles including at directorate level. We have psychologists as pathway leads for complex trauma, psychosis, and personality disorders who are supported by psychologists at every grade. There are therefore clear career paths for psychologists who join us and we are committed to your development through training and supervision.

We support our psychologists to employ the full range of their skills, and to divide their time accordingly. You will be able to participate in teaching, training, research, service development, supervision, team supervision, reflective practice, and direct clinical work for individuals and groups. It is a great place to be a psychologist, as we get to shape the services people need.

This post attracts a Welcome Bonus of £5,000.
This comprises of an initial payment of £1800 pro rata to hours worked (payable with your first salary); a further payment of £1800 pro rata to hours worked after 12 months service and a final payment of £1400 pro rata to hours worked after 18 months service. Qualifying criteria and Scheme Rules do apply, including a minimum tenure in post of 24 months to avoid any repayment. Full details are available upon request.

To discuss this role please contact - Amanda Tetley, Service Lead/Consultant Psychologist (T .

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

This is an exciting time to join the pathway for relational and emotional needs. You will join over 30 staff, where you will work with the Consultant Psychologist, Principal Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Medical Psychotherapist, Peer Support Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. You will help our population through direct and indirect interventions, delivering individual and group interventions and through supervision, training, and consultation. We have practitioners in the service experienced in Mentalization-Based Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Structured Clinical Management, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, trauma approaches, and in delivering integrative psychological approaches.

You will have the opportunity to enhance the breath of your psychological skills through a variety of supervision opportunities and continued professional development. You will have the opportunity to further develop your leadership and service development skills. We will support your development through internal and external training programmes.

We have strong links to the University of Leicester and you can be involved in teaching, trainee placements, and input.

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.


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