Role: LA 2028 Lead Psychologist

ParalympicsGB is seeking an exceptional Lead Psychologist to provide strategic leadership for Psychology across the LA 2028 Paralympic Games cycle. Working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, Head of Performance Services and other lead practitioners, the successful candidate will shape and deliver an integrated Psychology service that supports performance, wellbeing and team effectiveness from Games preparation through to post-Games transition.

This role represents an exciting evolution in ParalympicsGB’s approach to Psychology. We are seeking a leader who can help create a psychologically informed Team environment, where psychology contributes not only to mental health and wellbeing, but also to performance, leadership, culture, decision-making and belonging. Through the integration of clinical, performance and environmental psychology principles, the role will help create the conditions in which athletes and staff can thrive and perform at their best under the unique pressures of the Paralympic Games.

Given the breadth of the role, ParalympicsGB welcomes applications from psychologists with diverse professional backgrounds whose expertise spans both psychological wellbeing and human performance, including but not limited to Clinical, Sport and Exercise, Counselling and Occupational Psychology.

For further information about the role, please see the Role Description

For details of the person specification please download the Role Description

Please send a role specific cover letter and CV to Alex Dickinson-Shill, alex.shill@paralympics.org.uk. All enquiries are to be directed to the email listed and no phone enquiries will be taken.

Closing Date: 5pm Friday 30 October 2026

Interviews: Friday 27 November 2026 in Loughborough.

Candidates who have been shortlisted for interview will be notified during the week commencing 9th November 2026

Please submit a completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form available here:

ParalympicsGB LA 2028 Recruitment Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

We are fully committed to the principles of the equality of opportunity. No job applicant will receive less favourable treatment, on the grounds of age, race, disability, parental or marital status, religious belief, sex, gender, social status, or sexual orientation.

To find out more about our efforts, you can read our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Plan.

And to see our Leadership’s commitment to inclusion, you can read our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Leadership Charter.

We are ParalympicsGB, the National Paralympic Committee for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is our responsibility to select, prepare, enter, fund, and manage the ParalympicsGB team at the Paralympic Games.

London 2012 kindled a passion for disability sport in Great Britain and demonstrated the power of the Paralympics to inspire a shift in perceptions of disability and ability. Now, with Paris 2024 and Milano-Cortina 2026 fresh in our minds, we have our sights firmly set on the LA 2028 Summer Paralympics. Our ambition is to use the positive power of sport to inspire a change in attitudes to disability and bring about equality for disabled people in sport, education, and society, and with the launch of Championing Change, our 10-year strategy from 2022-2032 it could not be a more exciting time to join the team!

As a ParalympicsGB team member you are expected to exhibit the highest levels of professionalism, including demonstrating the BPA’s core values, at all times:

Excellence – Everything we do reflects our ambition to be world leading. We care deeply about what we do and bring a flexible approach to our interactions with others. Like the athletes we support, we will always challenge ourselves and others to do better.

Respect – Our relationships with each other, our partners and the wider community are based on respect, trust and a deep-seated belief in diversity, inclusion and the value of our differences.

Integrity – We demand the highest standards from ourselves and others, seeking always to do the right thing and to engage with openness and transparency in all that we do.