Principal Clinical Psychologist - Locality Leads
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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We are looking to recruit Principal Clinical Psychologist Leads. These posts are part of the next phase in creating an established and sustainable Psychology workforce within the acute mental health pathway based in inpatient services already established. The benefits of these posts include being able to develop a service, whilst also being connected to established psychology teams and the wider psychology network.
Suitable candidates can express their preference for working within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) or Mental Health Liaison Service (MHLS). Candidates can express their preference for working within one of three localities; Wirral, West Cheshire, or East/Central Cheshire. The posts can be up to 1.0wte, and we can consider full or part time working.
As the Principal Clinical Psychologist Locality Lead you will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership within either the CRHTT, or the MHLS, based on your preference within one locality.
Main duties of the job
You will work with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, locality leadership team(s) and speciality clinical network to enhance and evaluate the psychological care offer within the Acute Pathway (First Response Service) provided by a multi-professional workforce. Providing training, consultancy, supervision and support to multi-professional staff, teams and managers will be essential. As will taking a strategic and pragmatic approach to service evaluation, audit and research as part of on-going quality improvement. You will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention, as well as input to care planning and discharge planning. Both working as part of the multidisciplinary team and as an autonomous Clinical Psychologist.
CWP is an innovative and transformational all-ages mental health service provider. There will be opportunities to join internal and external professional and clinical networks, undertake research, and provide training and support to the next generation of psychology and mental health practitioners.
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.
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.
At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
* HCPC registration
* BPS chartered status and/or membership of ACPUK.
Knowledge and Expertise
* Highly specialist skills in undertaking complex psychological and cognitive/neuropsychological assessment, intervention and evaluation frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* 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.
* Formally trained and expert in supervising Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
* 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).
* Leadership training and/or awareness of different leadership models and systems thinking
Experience
* Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
* Experience of providing consultation, training, support and supervision/reflective practice to other professionals and non-professionals.
* Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
* Involvement in local and/or national academic and/or professional body and other professional activities.
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.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number
373-SMH2336
Job locations
Wirral/ Chester / Cheshire East by preference
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