Principal Clinical Psychologist- 18-25 Service

The Trust is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join the newly formed 18-25 service covering the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership footprint.

This post is a fixed term for 8 months 30 hours per week covering maternity leave.

We are happy to consider internal applicants who wish to take up this post as a secondment.

The 18-25 service is a new team being developed to support young people who are transitioning across Children, Young People and Families services to Adult services or Learning Disabilities and Neuro-developmental services. This service has been developed on the back of the NHS Long Term plan which requires a service to be put in place that reaches across mental health services for CYP and Adults aged 0-25.

The 18-25 service has been designed to be a consultation and advice model, this service will not replace the services young people are currently accessing but will support MDT in decision and planning around the young person's care.

The purpose of the 18-25 service is to provide senior clinician support to existing services to enable smooth planning for services for young people, this will come in the form of advice and recommendations regarding complex cases. The service will take a holistic view of the young person's case, looking at supporting services to navigate health, social care and educational services, ultimately breaking down barriers for accessing pathways and services. It will focus on the aspirations and strengths of the young person.

Working within a multidisciplinary team, as an experienced Clinical Psychologist alongside a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, you will be responsible for the systematic provision of high quality, comprehensive, psychologically informed support for adults within the service. You will also be working collaboratively alongside statutory and voluntary organisations and committed to ensuring that personalised care-planning is consistent, empowering and underpinned by robust evidence base models.

The successful candidate will have well developed skills and experience of working with this population both at a direct clinical and ideally strategic level. You will also have a clinical caseload for direct psychological interventions. Supporting the Consultant Clinical Psychologist in service development, audit and evaluation will be further key aspects of the role in collaboration with the senior leadership team. As a senior member of the team, a large part of the role will be supporting other staff, offering a psychologically based understanding of our clients, both with colleagues and within wider multi-professional forums. You will be a key player who develops, contributes to and implements our strategic aims for the team.

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.

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.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.

Please download a copy of the job description for full details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website https://www.cwp.nhs.uk/completing-application-guidance. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or by calling 01244 393100.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the essential criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer YES to the question: Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a Silver award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team on 01244 393100.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.

• 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.
• Registered with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Post-qualification specialist training in particular psychotherapeutic approaches e.g. cognitive analytic psychotherapy, dialectical behaviour therapy.

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate 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.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Knowledge of attachment theory
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience 50 hours supervision in a specific modality, case presentations, group supervision supported by short courses approved by the Psychology Head of Service

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of four years with 2 years at a highly specialist level.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in patient and residential 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 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.

• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care setting
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Upton Lea Resource Centre

Countess of Chester Health Park

Liverpool Road, Chester

CH2 1BQ

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