Principal Psychologist
Overview:
Service Based – Principal Psychologist
(Clinical, Counselling, Forensic)
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At Change Grow Live we care deeply about social justice and the work that we do. If you do too and you have the necessary experience and passion for this post, we encourage you to apply for this innovative leadership position. We are looking for a registered Psychologist who has the appropriate competencies and experience to lead our services.
We are looking for an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist to become our Principal Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling/Forensic). In this role you will develop our service and psychosocial interventions offer.
We want all of our services to be Psychologically Informed. We support people experiencing difficulties associated with a range of challenges, most frequently including drug and alcohol use. We want to focus our Psychology resources to support equity and assure quality and delivery of evidence-based interventions as outlined in Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2017.
- Change Grow Live Salary Scale
- Scale Points
- 54 – 62 £59,217
- £68,67 (based on full time hours, pro rata for part time)
- Location – Based at one of our delivery hubs (Worksop, Mansfield and Hucknall)
- Contracted Hours – part time 22.5 hours
- Category – Clinical/Managerial
- Type of contract – Fixed Term until 31st March 2026
- please note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.
Responsibilities:
Career progression. Leadership skills. An opportunity to make a difference. If this is what you are looking for, here’s a chance to be part of a team where you can use your clinical skills and your creativity to achieve the best for people. Our multidisciplinary team supports people experiencing alcohol/drug use and co-occurring difficulties to receive high quality care.We are looking for an HCPC registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to help us to develop our psychology and trauma -informed service. This post offers opportunities for flexible working. Part time hours would also be considered for the right candidate.
The post will be working across Nottinghamshire, but can be based at one of the 3 service hubs across the county (Worksop/Mansfield/Hucknall).
We know that many of the people we work with experience a combination of challenges in their lives (substance use, mental health issues, housing issues, criminal justice involvement, domestic abuse). We refer to this as Severe Multiple Disadvantage (SMD).This post will be working alongside the SMD Team that specialise in Outreach, Housing sustainment, and comorbidity around mental health and substance use.
Nottinghamshire is taking a test and learn approach to look at how we can best support people accessing substance use services, where there is an additional housing need. CGL is committed to the MEAM approach (Making Every Adult Matter) in supporting those experiencing SMD.This focusses on recognising the impact of trauma, appreciating and utilising those with lived experience, looking at where we as services can be more flexible, and identifying where the systems we work in need to be improved. It is an exciting time to join us, with recommendations for significant increases in psychology employment within substance use services over the next 5 years (The Independent Review on drugs, Dame Carol Black, July 2021).
Responsibilities
Our model emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety and helps people to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment in their lives and in their communities. As part of our team, you would have the freedom to work flexibly and creatively to establish what’s needed to have the most positive impact for people who use services.
You will help to develop the psychology service within the SMD teams, ensuring that psychological perspectives are central to everyone’s thinking. You will support the empowerment of teams and individuals to increase knowledge, skills, and professional confidence around the needs of the people who access our services.Through consultancy, reflective practice, team formulation, training, and clinical case management, you will help the wider team create an innovative and effective trauma-informed service.
Our national Psychology Directorate provides connection, peer support, reflective practice and CPD relevant to psychology. You will also be part of a friendly and supportive local Nottinghamshire psychology team, including qualified psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainees.Regular clinical supervision will be provided by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist within this team. If you’re a team player who shares our organisational values of being bold, compassionate, and open, this could be the role for you.
Our values are to be compassionate, open, and bold.
Does this sound like you? If so, please read the job description and person specification and we look forward to receiving your application soon.
Please contact Dr Kathy Huke Consultant Clinical Psychologist for further information or an informal discussion.
kathy.huke@cgl.org.uk
You will work as part of multidisciplinary teams and your focus will be the excellent delivery of recommended specialised interventions. These form the primary Job Plan for all Psychology positions, contributing to supporting recovery and are detailed within our Job Descriptions.
The overarching Job Descriptions for Change Grow Live apply but the focus of this role is work related to the psychological support of people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantages, including homelessness. The role may work in Change Grow Live services and alongside the range of services related to supporting people experiencing homelessness with or at risk of becoming homeless which the postholder is expected to work closely with.
This is a very exciting time for the organisation and Psychology within it, we will need you to see the bigger picture and support us to adapt our models to meet people’s needs. For you to bring your very best to this role you will need to be open-minded and willing to lead Psychology and Psychological Therapies to develop in this way.
You will be joining a brilliant national team of Psychologists and qualified counsellors; we also have a range of highly committed and passionate staff who deliver psychosocial interventions – whether on a 1-1 basis or in groups. Regular clinical supervision will be from a Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.Our teams are vibrant, diverse, and multidisciplinary – you would be starting in a good place!
You will have the opportunity to work with your peers, engaging in formal and informal peer support, reflective practice, research and CPD opportunities.
If you are compassionate, authentic, inspiring and you want to make a difference, working in an environment where you can use your clinical skills and creativity to achieve the best for people, we would encourage you to read our job description.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 54 to 62 (£59,217.28 - £68,671.02)
ILW / OLW /Fringe: N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
Interview Date: 24/3/2026
Closing Date: 9/3/2026
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: Kathy Huke | Kathy.Huke@cgl.org.uk
: This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.