Lead Clinical Psychologist (Eating Disorders)

Job summary

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The successful applicant will be ale to negotiate a set working week of between 22.5 hours to 37.5 hours.

Are you an experienced and creative Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about service innovation, development, and supporting multidisciplinary teams to deliver outstanding care? We are seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate, and collaborative Clinical Psychologist with experience in Eating Disorders services to join a new multidisciplinary team of professionals.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the continued development of the Gloucestershire Eating Disorders Service. While contributing to service transformation and recovery following the pandemic, the post holder will have a strong focus on supporting, developing, and empowering colleagues across the multidisciplinary team. Working alongside clinical and operational leaders, you will help shape service improvements, enhance psychological practice, and ensure staff have the skills, confidence, and support needed to provide safe, effective, and recovery-focused care.

You will demonstrate strong and compassionate leadership skills, with extensive experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working and service development. You will be committed to supporting and developing others, fostering a positive team culture, and enabling colleagues to deliver high-quality psychological interventions.

Main duties of the job

The service is engaged in an ambitious transformation programme, providing the successful candidate with opportunities to support the implementation of new psychological interventions and treatment initiatives, contribute to workforce development, and help build a sustainable and resilient service for those accessing Eating Disorders care.

You will play a leading role in ensuring this forward-thinking service remains psychologically informed, providing expert consultation, training and supervision, while championing psychological thinking across the multidisciplinary team. A key aspect of the role will be supporting and developing colleagues to enhance psychological practice, build confidence and capability, and promote excellent patient outcomes.

The post holder will be expected to role model and promote the Trust's values in all aspects of their work, fostering a culture of compassion, respect, collaboration and continuous improvement. Through supportive leadership and a commitment to staff wellbeing, you will help create an environment where colleagues feel valued, empowered and able to deliver the highest standards of care.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Details

Date posted

01 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

327-26-383-C

Job locations

Eastgate House/Brownhill Centre

Gloucester/Cheltenham

Gloucester/Cheltenham

GL51 9ER

United Kingdom

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