Daytime Healthcare are assisting a top national mental healthcare provider to source a Lead Psychologist to join the team in Oldham.
With experience from the NHS or the private sector as a Senior or Lead Psychologist, you will carry a caseload that includes assessing service users with complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatment within mental health care services.
What you will be doing:
You will work 37.5 hours a week as the Lead Psychologist for a service that offers a specialist mental health service for men who are deaf and who have complex communication needs.
As a Lead Psychologist, you will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working and risk assessments. You will also support the clinical teams in creating reports with service users to increase engagement through interventions and developing new initiatives.
To be successful as a Lead Psychologist, you'll have:
* To be registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist and Charterable status with the British Psychological Society
* Successful completion of a Doctorate level qualification in applied psychology either through the British Psychological Society or a recognised training body, enabling registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Competence in assessing, formulating, and working therapeutically with service users
* Ability to identify and proactively resol...