Role: Registered Clinical Psychologist (Band 7)
Location: Northampton
Pay: £53,000–£58,000 per annum (DOE)
Contracted Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Join Our Specialist Mental Health Team
St Matthews Healthcare is looking for an experienced Registered Clinical Psychologist to join our Mental Health Rehabilitation Hospital.
This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, delivering specialist psychological assessment and therapy to adults with complex and enduring mental health conditions. You'll play a key role in clinical leadership, service development and promoting psychologically informed care throughout the organisation.
Why Join St Matthews Healthcare?
At St Matthews Healthcare, we're committed to delivering compassionate, recovery-focused mental health services. We value innovation, collaboration and professional development, creating an environment where psychologists can thrive while helping people achieve meaningful recovery.
The Role:
- Deliver specialist psychological assessments, formulations and evidence-based interventions.
- Manage a complex inpatient caseload within a rehabilitation setting.
- Deliver individual, group and family therapies using approaches including CBT, trauma-informed practice and systemic therapies.
- Provide expert psychological consultation to the multidisciplinary team.
- Supervise Assistant Psychologists, trainee psychologists and other clinical staff.
- Lead quality improvement initiatives, audits and service development.
- Deliver training to staff and contribute to a psychologically informed culture.
- Work collaboratively with families, commissioners and external healthcare professionals to support recovery-focused care.
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology (or equivalent accredited qualification).
- Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Significant post-qualification experience working with severe and enduring mental health conditions.
- Experience within inpatient or rehabilitation mental health services.
- Excellent communication, leadership and report-writing skills.
- Experience supervising junior psychologists or multidisciplinary staff.
Desirable
- Training in specialist therapies such as CBT for Psychosis, EMDR, DBT or Systemic Family Therapy.
- Experience working with Autism, ADHD or Acquired Brain Injury.
- Experience leading audits, service evaluations or research.
- Experience delivering teaching and training.
- Knowledge of NHS commissioning pathways.
Apply Today
If you're an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist looking to make a genuine impact within a specialist rehabilitation service, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and become part of St Matthews Healthcare.
Pay: £53,000.00-£58,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Northampton, Northamptonshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Application question(s):
- Do you require a Certificate of sponsorship to work with us?
Experience:
- Post-qualification inpatient mental health: 2 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
