Job Overview

Start the New Year with a Fresh Challenge – Join Us in Jersey!

Are you ready for a new start in 2026? Come and work as a Clinical Psychologist on the stunning island of Jersey, leading psychological care within our Adult Inpatient Mental Health Service at Orchard ward.

You’ll join a committed multidisciplinary team (MDT) and take the lead in shaping and delivering high-quality psychological provision, supported by an Assistant Psychologist. Psychology is highly valued within Inpatient Services and has a strong, respected presence across the service.

What you’ll do:

• Provide clinical assessments, formulations, and interventions for service users.

• Offer supervision and delegated line management for psychology staff on Orchard Ward.

• Lead on staff support, debriefing, and team formulation sessions.

• Contribute to service development, promoting efficient, therapeutic, and recovery-focused practice.

• Support positive risk-taking and strengthen communication and service user involvement.

What we’re looking for:

• An HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist with enthusiasm for inpatient mental health work.

• Confidence in supervision, consultation, and team-based approaches.

• Experience or interest in complex healthcare systems and service improvement.

• A team player who values collaboration and compassionate care.

You’ll work alongside a skilled and welcoming MDT including psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, art therapy, and HCAs. You’ll also receive specialist supervision and support from the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Adult Mental Health.

Make your next move count — join a service where your voice and expertise truly matter.

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For an informal discussion, contact Olivia Card at o.card@health.gov.je.

Job Purpose

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients admitted to the inpatient service  based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological problems including developmental background, long term personality adaptations, interpersonal patterns of relating, service, and diagnostic issues. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations which draw upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

 In the context of the multidisciplinary team, to be professionally responsibility for the psychological assessment, care plan development and treatment of clients admitted to the inpatient environment.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex/sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.

To provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team, particularly where there are conflicting opinions about the multiple options available for assessment and intervention.

Statutory Responsibilities

The postholder will have to comply with all relevant States Laws, such as the Health and  

Safety at Work (Jersey) Law 1989 and any other associated legislation, Standing Orders,  

Financial Directions, and other relevant Codes of Practice, in respect of managing the key  

project deliverables of programmes and costs through the active management of  

procurement, approval, financial and administrative procedures. 

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health Law Jersey 2016 

To work in accordance with the Data Protection (Jersey) Law; 

This role is politically restricted. The jobholder is not permitted to undertake political activity  

involving standing for election to the States or as a Parish Constable, or publicly supporting  

someone who is standing for election or playing a public part in any political manner This role is politically restricted. The jobholder is not permitted to undertake political activity involving standing for election to the States or as a Parish Constable, or publicly supporting someone who is standing for election or playing a public part in any political manner. 

Job Specific Outcomes 1 of 2

To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.  

To provide core clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to be responsible for the assessment and evaluation of such competencies. 

To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to clinical psychologists attached to the team. 

To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients’ functioning. 

To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology as appropriate. 

To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision. 

To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. 

To provide professional management and clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and assistant and senior assistant clinical psychologists working in the service sector to which the postholder is attached. 

To take the psychology lead, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team’s operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care. 

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.  To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research including doctoral trainee clinical psychologists and assistant and senior assistant clinical psychologists undertaking research as appropriate.  

Job Specific Outcomes 2 of 2

Management, recruitment, policy and service development 

1. To participate as the principal clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. 

2. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to a team, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of patients.  

3. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. 

4. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant and higher assistant clinical psychologists, clinical psychologists and senior clinical psychologists. 

Qualifications

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent) 

HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist or eligibility for registration                                                                                                  

Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist for a minimum of 2 years, potentially as a senior psychologist.

Knowledge

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS. 

Formal training in supervision of other psychologists 

Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course  

and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings  

including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings  

Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly  

emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. 

Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and  

treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. 

Experience of teaching,  

training and/or professional and clinical supervision. 

Familiarity with codes of practice of Health and Social Care Professions Council (HCPC). 

Good understanding of safeguarding.

Technical Work Based Skills

Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. 

Skills in the delivery of psychologically informed groups.  

Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology. 

Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. 

Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. 

Formal training in supervision of other psychologists. 

General skills / attributes

Strong relationship building with both internal and external stakeholders up to and including at a senior level, and especially good therapeutic relationship with clients.  

Ability to assessment and formulation complex factors contributing to service user’s risk and develop strategies for their mitigation. 

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment  

intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and  

intense concentration. 

Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive  

information to clients, their families, carers and other  

professional colleagues both within and outside the Care group / Government of Jersey. 

Ability to adapt personal style in order to influence others and gain support for ideas.  

Demonstrates empathy towards individual clients. 

Experience

A minimum of two years experience of working as a clinical psychologist with adults and families with mental health issues 

Well-developed experience of working with people with severe, complex and/or chronic mental health problems.  

Experience of teaching, training and supervising professional and clinical practise of qualified and unqualified staff.  

Experience of liaison and joint working with other statutory agencies.  

Personal Attributes

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