Job Overview
Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!
Here in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR), we are innovatively transforming ways of working with people with relational and emotional difficulties often described diagnostically as “Personality Disorder”. As part of this, we are keen for another Principal Psychologist to join us in our secondary care psychologically-led dedicated provision as a Clinical Lead.
The service has over 30 staff, including Psychologists, a Medical Psychotherapist, Peer Support Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. We offer a range of psychological and psychologically-informed approaches within the tradition of trauma-informed care, including Mentalization-Based Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, and a structured clinical management approach. We would be very keen to hear from applicants with an interest and training in any of these approaches. We will support your training and continued professional development in these models to support your delivery of clinical leadership.
The Trust has a substantial service structure with psychologists in lead roles including at directorate level. We have psychologists as pathway leads for community psychology, rehabilitation, psychosis and “personality disorder” 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.
The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths. You’ll be joining an organisation with a genuine team culture built on openness, growth, and truly looking after one another.
We also offer:
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A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days, rising with length of service
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Free onsite parking
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Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
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Health and Wellbeing Support
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Various Staff Support Networks
Interview date: 17th July 2026 - If you have been shortlisted, we will contact you with further details.
To discuss this role please contact - Amanda Tetley, Service Lead/Consultant Psychologist (T 0116 295 2350/[email protected]).
