Clinical Psychologist

Job summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Psychologist to work at Swanwick Lodge Secure Children's Home which cares for up to 10 young people who are held under section 25 of the Children's Act, on welfare placements. The home is owned and run by Hampshire County Council, who deliver the care and education for the young people in the home. Young people typically stay for around 6 months, but this can vary based on their individual needs.

This is a rare and rewarding opportunity for a recently qualified psychologist to take up the role at band 7, with a clear development pathway to Band 8a. You'll be supported through regular supervision, training and hands-on experience designed to help you grow into a confident, senior clinician. This is a great space to develop systemic and leadership skills, post training.

The post holder will join an engaging, friendly and supportive team that is a valued resource within the home. The health and wellbeing team is commissioned separately to the care and education elements in the home, but we work together very closely with our integrated colleagues to understand and meet the needs of the young people. As part of integrated working our delivery is scaffolded by the SECURE STAIRS framework and a central part of our role is to offer wellbeing support to the wider team including the delivery of training, a variety of reflective spaces, and supporting the integrated team to engage in formulations for the young people.

This post is for 30 hours per week.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary health and wellbeing team and will be responsible for individual work with the young people, as well as working with the integrated team to continue to embed and champion the SECURE STAIRS framework. Support will be provided by the onsite Principal Psychologist, as well as the Integrated Health and Wellbeing Service Manager.

You will have opportunity to work with the other Clinical Psychologists both within the Trust and across the Secure Accommodation Network to benefit from peer support and have the chance to attend local and national networking events, as well as training relevant to the role.

This is an exciting opportunity, so we are looking for someone who has the enthusiasm and commitment to working with young people with challenging needs. If you are dedicated, compassionate and strive for a rewarding role that can offer plenty of training and development, we would like to hear from you.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details
Date posted 18 September 2026
Pay scheme Agenda for change
Band Band 8a
Salary £57,528 to £64,750 a year
Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Part-time
Reference number 348-CFS-12555
Job locations Swanwick Lodge, Glen Road, off Swanwick Lane, Southampton, Hampshire, SO31 7HD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Doctoral level training in applied psychology.
• Post-holder must be HCPC registered (or working towards this if qualifying this year)
• To have undertaken systemic practice training equivalent to the foundation year of systemic practice or be working towards this, this includes the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology courses where systemic therapy is a core model.

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Qualification in systemic practice/family therapy

Experience
Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients in clinical mental health settings, e.g, hospital or community mental health teams.
• Experience of working with service users with complex psychological needs.
• Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients.
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for service users psychological care within the context of a multidisciplinary teams and care plans.
• Experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of liaison with other health professionals.
• Experience of supervision of staff.

Desirable

• Post qualification experience in secure/inpatient/forensic or other relevant clinical settings
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of delivering group programmes
• Experience of working with young people presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Swanwick Lodge, Glen Road, off Swanwick Lane, Southampton, Hampshire, SO31 7HD, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Hiring Manager, Lucinda Chown, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.