Clinical Psychologist - Band 7/8a Development post

Job summary

We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000

The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.

Clinical Psychologist Band 8a or 7/8a Development post.

We have an exciting opportunity for several passionate and compassionate clinicians to join our team of psychologists & mental health practitioners, in our Complex Needs Service. This service primarily focuses on working with individuals that attract a diagnosis of 'personality disorder'.

You would be joining a team that includes a Consultant, Principal and Clinical Psychologist to help offer assessment, formulation and interventions to our local community. The main modalities of DBT, SCM and MBT are a core part of working, alongside therapeutic skills developed in clinical training and shaped in individual sessions. We are a warm and friendly team and importance is placed on your own supervision and CPD. Training in evidence based interventions will be provided.

The post is offered as a permanent 8a position for an experienced Clinical Psychologist, and applications are also welcome from recently /soon to be qualified individuals who have a keen desire to work in this area. For newly qualified applicants, the post will be offered as a development post, band 7-8a, in line with the trust's Preceptorship and Development post protocol.

Informal discussions and visits are welcomed.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high-quality specialist psychology service, including specialist psychological assessment, therapy and consultation to adults who are referred into the Complex Needs Service in East Cheshire & typically attract a diagnosis of 'personality disorder'.

In CWP, we have good links with Northwest doctoral training programmes and regularly offer trainee placements. The post holder would be expected to clinically supervise and manage the workloads of trainee clinical psychologists and assistant psychologists within the service as required.

Supervision will be from the Principal or Consultant Clinical Psychologist and the post holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

There will be opportunities to work with your Clinical Psychologist colleagues to support ongoing service development.

You will be committed to your own continuing professional development and have a role in supporting the development and training of the multi-disciplinary team as well as a critical awareness of the importance of building and maintaining good relationships with other services. There will be opportunities to contribute to service evaluation, audit, and research.

About us

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services. We also offer up to three weeks' induction, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you hit the ground running with CWP.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you'll find something to suit you at CWP.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description (see documents to download section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

1. Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
2. HCPC registration

Desirable

1. Additional Psychotherapy qualification relevant to working with clients with complex psychological and mental health difficulties

Knowledge & Expertise

Essential

1. Skills in conducting complex psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
2. Skills in completing neuropsychological assessments, interpretation of results, and ability to communicate these sensitively as appropriate
3. Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and/or clinically sensitive information to clients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS
4. Evidence of continuing professional development.
5. Skills in providing Consultation to other professionals and nonprofessional groups
6. Evidence of supervision training/qualification
7. Experience of supervising Assistant Psychologists, other psychological practitioners and/or MDT colleagues in psychological approaches
8. Experience of research, audit/service evaluation

Experience

Essential

1. Experience of working as a clinical psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied complex, psychological and mental health difficulties
2. Experience of working within multi-professional teams
3. Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients
4. Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care

Desirable

1. Experience of liaison with other health professionals
2. Experience of providing teaching and training

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration

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