Clinical Psychologist (6-Month Maternity Cover)
HCRG Care GroupBath, South West
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with HCRG Care Group based in Bath. The advertised salary is £49,387 to £56,515. Applications close on 27 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Make a Lasting Difference for People with Learning Disabilities This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and compassionate Clinical Psycholo...
Make a Lasting Difference for People with Learning Disabilities. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and compassionate Clinical Psychologist to join our Learning Disability Service on a 6-month fixed-term maternity cover contract, with an anticipated start date of October 2026. In this rewarding role, you will provide highly specialist psychological support to adults with learning disabilities and complex needs, helping them achieve improved wellbeing, greater independence and better quality of life. You will work closely with individuals, families, carers, and professionals, ensuring psychological expertise is at the heart of person-centred care. As part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will use advanced clinical knowledge and evidence-based approaches to assess, formulate, and deliver psychological interventions for individuals presenting with highly complex needs. You will also provide consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to colleagues and partner agencies, helping to embed psychologically informed practice across the service. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a skilled psychologist to contribute to an established service, make a meaningful impact within a specialist population, and support the continued delivery of high-quality care during a period of maternity leave cover.
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be inclusive of everyone.
Essential: - Qualifications: DClinPsy (or equivalent), current HCPC registration, and eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist status.
How this role compares
We hold 965 NHS vacancies in South West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £34,098. This role pays more than about 72% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,546 of them in South West.
You have 6 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
HCRG Care Group has 107 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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