Older Adults Principal Clinical Psychologist - Birkenhead - Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS[...]

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP) Birkenhead

1 month ago

Description

Job Title

Band 8b

Main area: Principal Clinical Psychologist Grade Band 8b

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time)

Job ref: 373-SMH2106-C RR

Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join one of our Community MH Teams. This is an interesting new post which will have considerable input to the service improvement work being undertaken as part of the MH Transformation. We are aiming to develop new and innovative ways to improve the services by ensuring that everything we do is underpinned by holistic, person-centred and trauma-informed approaches. The post-holder will take a clinical leadership role in the co-ordination and implementation of psychological care and ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychological therapies service for patients and their families/carers, with an emphasis on co-production.

Main Duties

The post-holder will join a supportive and friendly senior leadership team which includes senior Clinical Psychologists across the Trust and the Head of Clinical Service and Service Managers for the Wirral area. They will also work closely with the other members of the CMHT leadership team to develop strong working relationships and effective care pathways. A key component of their role is to provide supervision, consultation and training to the wider service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

1. 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 understanding human problems, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
2. HPC registration.
3. Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
4. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
5. BPS chartered status.

Knowledge & Expertise

1. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
2. Well-developed skills for communicating effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
3. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional.
4. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of applied psychology and specialised psychological therapies in working with people with complex difficulties (e.g. severe MH problems; personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).

Experience

1. Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a number of years.
2. Involvement in local and/or national DCP and other professional activities.

About Us

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries. We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall. CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.