Head of Psychology and Psychological Therapies

Are you an experienced Clinical Psychologist looking for an opportunity to shape the future of adult mental health services while continuing to make a meaningful difference in clinical practice? This is a highly influential leadership role within Community Mental Health Services (CMHS), where you will play a pivotal part in driving service excellence, innovation, and strategic development across adult psychology services. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Group, you will provide professional and clinical leadership to psychologists and multidisciplinary teams, helping to deliver compassionate, effective, and evidence-based care for people accessing mental health services. You will balance strategic leadership with hands-on clinical practice, maintaining a specialist clinical caseload while leading service transformation, workforce development, and quality improvement initiatives. This is an outstanding opportunity to influence service delivery at both local and county-wide levels, work collaboratively with senior leaders and partner organisations, and leave a lasting impact on the future of mental health care., In this role, you will:

• Provide inspirational clinical and professional leadership for adult psychology services across Community Mental Health Services.
• Lead the development and delivery of high-quality, responsive, and evidence-based psychological services.
• Influence strategic planning and service transformation across the Adult Mental Health Directorate.
• Maintain an expert clinical caseload, delivering consultant-level assessment, formulation, therapy, consultation, and supervision.
• Support and develop psychological skills across the wider workforce through training, coaching, consultation, and supervision.
• Lead service improvement, quality assurance, audit, research, and innovation programmes.
• Work collaboratively with senior leaders, service users, carers, clinicians, and external partners to improve outcomes and patient experience.
• Champion safe, effective care by promoting strong governance, risk management, and continuous learning.
• Contribute to workforce planning, recruitment, staff development, and succession planning to build resilient and high-performing teams.
• Represent the service and Trust at senior-level meetings, partnerships, and multi-agency forums.
  
  As an organisation, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits including flexible working, NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance and a commitment to career development.You will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a wide range of NHS exclusive shopping & leisure discounts.We are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer we welcome applications from all backgrounds.Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable.Somerset offers the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!