Service Area: Adult Psychological Therapies.

Working Pattern: Remote/Hybrid.

Total Hour: 37.5 hours

Salary: £65,000 to £73,000 per annum

Travel: This will be periodically required to our offices in York and London, and other locations within the UK (reimbursed through expenses). 

Closing Date: Tuesday 18 March at 5pm (we reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a large volume of suitable applications).

Proposed Interview Dates: Onebright London Office - Monday 31 March and Tuesday 1 April 2025.

About our opportunity

The Principal Clinical Lead is a new position at Onebright. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist to work alongside our Head of Adult Psychological Therapies and to lead service provision within either Onebright’s Private Medical Insurance pathway or our Specialised Contracts.

You will:

• Hold clinical accountability and responsibility for either Onebright’s Private Medical Insurance or Specialised Contracts to ensure high quality, accessible and inclusive evidence based psychological services are delivered to our client groups.

• Work collaboratively with the Head of Adult Psychological Therapies, Operational, and Commercial teams supporting strategic development across the business.

• Provide clinical supervision and specialist consultations within Adult Psychological Therapies.

• Attend external meetings with our many contract partners.

• Hold direct line management responsibility for the Clinical Leads and support them in their managerial/supervisory roles and responsibilities.

• Provide evidence-based treatments as approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to clients accessing our services.  

What we need from you 

• Doctoral level training in either clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society.

• Further postgraduate study in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and BABCP accreditation or moving towards accreditation within 6-months of appointment.

• HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist.

• Post-graduate training in at least two evidence based psychological therapies.

• Minimum of five years’ mental health experience working in public and/or private healthcare.

• Minimum of two years’ experience of managing and developing adult healthcare services and teams of staff within these settings.

Please review the Role Profile and Person Specification for more details, and the Onebright Adult Psychological Therapies Organigram. 

More about Onebright 

At Onebright we help individuals and organisations with mental health and wellbeing solutions, providing every person with the best mental healthcare, offering hope for a better future. We work across the mental health continuum from performance optimisation, early intervention, prevention, and treatment. 

Onebright has been providing clinical excellence in mental health across the UK for 30 years.  It is a pioneer in clinical assessments and treatment for children through to adults, delivering services through more than 3,000 clinicians in 49 languages to more than 55,000 people per year.

Our deep understanding of mental health and unrivalled clinical expertise enables us to support businesses from the first interaction with us through to recovery. We have a breadth of existing relationships with the UK’s leading service providers of EAP, PMI and OH which gives us a unique ability to deliver consistent care to employees from whichever channel they reach us.

At Onebright, we lead with integrity and compassion and are here to help our clients every step of the way.

Application process

Should you meet the essential criteria for this position and wish to apply, please press apply now. You will need to upload.

• A CV

• A covering letter which must include a Supporting Statement demonstrating how your experience meets the competencies outlined within the profile using the following headings: 

1. Clinical 

2. Clinical Governance.

3. Leadership and Management.

4. Organisational and Administrative.

5. Personal and Professional Development.

6. Teaching, Training, Supervision of Staff, and Research.

7. Additional Information (optional). 

If you have any other relevant information that would be helpful to know in your application, please add this to section 7. 

Please note should we receive a large volume of applications; we may need to revert to the desirable criteria from the person specification to support shortlisting for interview. 

How we say thank you 

An exciting career is much more than just a salary. We also understand that everyone, regardless of culture, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, or disability status, can contribute to our goal to make our work better for all. Our strength is in our people. So, at Onebright we have a range of benefits that include:

• 26 days holiday with an option to purchase more through our holiday purchase scheme. Plus, bank holidays on top.

• When you need support, we rely on our excellent Employee Assistance Programme to help you with your wellbeing.

• A private company pension with Royal London enabling you to keep one eye on the future.

• Your development is critical to our success so giving you access to Continuous Professional Development is always available to you.

• A very useful cash plan to help with those unexpected health issues such as dentist, eye wear or prescriptions and much more.

• Rewards gateway giving you access to an endless list of little perks and savings with retailers.

• Learning new skills is important so accessing our Onebright L&D platform will engage your enquiring mind.

• We encourage and reward our staff to “Refer Friends & Colleagues” with cash reward when they successfully join us.

At Onebright we like to go further. So, we want to ensure that once you get here, you’ll still be going places.  

Information to help you in your application 

• Onebright is committed to delivering in line with 'safer recruitment' principles and therefore the successful candidate will be required to undertake a credit check and a DBS check (Enhanced or Standard) with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the cost of which will be met by Onebright.

• Onebright is committed to adhering to the Equality Act 2010 and provides equal opportunities to all applicants, staff and clients. Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment Team and we will organise appropriate support.

• Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK, and we will seek to complete a Right to Work check for all candidates.

• For further information about this position please contact – Dr. Glenn Mason, Head of Adult Psychological Therapies – glennmason@onebright.com

• Closing date for applications is Tuesday 18 March at 5pm. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a large volume of suitable applications.