HIGHLY SPECIALIST CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

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Main area: CAMHS Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (salary - if employed on preceptorship will start bottom of band 7 though recruited into 8a post)
Job ref: 311-HYM658-25-A

Site: Springleigh clinic
Town: Stalybridge
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 PA, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/04/2025 23:59

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople.

Tameside and Glossop Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is based in Stalybridge, Tameside. We are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including Education, Children’s Social Care (CSC) and the Third Sector and as a locality well on the way to being fully aligned to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are fully committed to supporting our staff in their development with great access to CPD opportunities, a robust clinical and management supervision structure, and access to an in-house training programme covering key areas of clinical practice as part of your induction.

We are extremely proud to be a forward-thinking service with a long history of innovative service development. This is a really exciting time to become part of our service, as we are steadily expanding our offer. As such we are delighted to be actively seeking to recruit a new clinical psychologist who will be joining our already well established, highly skilled and supportive staff team here in Tameside and Glossop. You will join a well-established team of over 10 clinical psychologists with expertise in a wide range of clinical areas in CAMHS where you will be well supported in your own development.

If you think you might be interested in this post, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities of the Post:

1. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology input to core CAMHS and specialist LD/ND CAMHS pathways.
2. To undertake direct assessment and intervention with our children, young people and their families and to supervise that provided by other staff within the multi-disciplinary team over time.
3. To contribute to the provision of risk assessment and management as part of the core CAMHS duty offer.
4. To offer training and consultation both internally and externally to our partner agencies.
5. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.
6. To utilise skills for audit, service evaluation and service development as appropriate.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance.
• Access to Continued Professional Development.
• Involvement in improvement and research activities.
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Role Summary:

We currently very excited to be looking to recruit a 1.0 WTE 8a (or band 7 preceptorship into 8a) Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist into our service.

This is an exciting opportunity to take up a post based within our Core CAMHS service, with some specialist time inputting into our CAMHS Learning Disability and / or Neurodevelopmental Pathways too, and to receive regular, specialist clinical supervision from senior clinical psychologists with expertise across all areas.

As well as those with some post-qualification experience interested in an 8a post, we would also be keen to hear from applicants who would be interested in a preceptorship post starting on a band 7 with a move to 8a after a period of experience and development. This would suit newly or recently qualified clinical psychologists.

Person specification

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. Registration with BPS HCPC Registered.
• Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a specialist level. Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of working with families and carers. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric testing, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Specialist training in therapeutic work with children, young people and families.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

What happens after your application has been received?

You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.

What happens if I am offered the position after interview?

The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.

What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?

By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:

• Identity verification.
• Right to work check.
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role).
• Professional registration and/or qualification check.
• Occupational health assessment.
• Employment history and reference validation.

All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.

If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.

What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?

Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

Other important information

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
• Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
• We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure your application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: DR PAULA CLARE HULL
Job title: CONSULTANT CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Email address: paula.hull2@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0161 716 3600

If you have problems applying, contact

Address: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
Telephone: 01617163181