We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our Pennine Care Learning Disability Care Hub.
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join us. We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the Learning Disability Care Hub. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone’s value should be recognised and respected. We proactively challenge injustices, and publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice.
The Learning Disabilities Care Hub includes five Community Learning Disability Teams across the footprint of Pennine Care. Clinical Psychology is valued locally within our community teams and within the wider Trust. Working base will be discussed at interview.
We offer a robust supervision and development structure. You will be part of an expanding, energetic, innovative Learning Disability Care Hub team that values coproduction and working alongside people with lived experience and promotes trauma informed care.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-agency team, working alongside clinical psychologists, community learning disability nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, and other multidisciplinary mental health practitioners. The Learning Disability Care Hub consists of community learning disability teams delivering services to adults aged 18+ years and with some provision to children and young people.
The postholder will collaborate with other Clinical Psychologists from across the Learning Disability Care Hub to take an active role in coordinating service development and engagement by supporting:
• Service delivery including development and delivery of psychological pathways
• Development and delivery of training
• Conducting research, audit, and evaluation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
To provide clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology for the Learning Disability care hub.
• To ensure the provision of a high-quality clinical psychology pathway.
• To provide highly specialized psychological assessment whilst offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to other colleagues and different professional groups.
• To contribute to research, audit, policy, and service development.
• To propose and implement policy changes within the areas served.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation to individuals and groups of staff across the learning disability care hub, including psychology staff.
• To provide support and cover for the provision of psychology services across the care hub footprint.
• To play an active role in the promotion of psychology and representation of learning disability practitioner psychologists across the care hub and wider systems.
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To develop and engage in pathway development, ensuring the application of trauma informed models of care, using least restrictive practice.
To lead on care planning for service users in receipt of psychology and engage with their families and carer’s.
• To undertake highly specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use and interpretation of complex data from various sources.To undertake clinical duties as necessary to support the psychology offer within the Learning Disabilities care hub.
• To develop psychological formulations of complex difficulties to inform the team’s understanding, treatment, and management of these difficulties; discharge planning; and when appropriate recommendations for further assessment and intervention after discharge
• To provide appropriate structured psychological interventions and psychological therapies.
• To support the development and delivery of therapeutic, psychoeducational or skills development groups as need dictates.
• To harness and support the development of psychosocial skills of other team members by providing clinical supervision, consultation, training and liaison work and opportunities for co-working.
• To develop and maintain appropriate psychosocial supervision frameworks.
• To contribute to the appropriate risk assessment and risk management by providing training and consultation to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• To promote team working and constructive relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• To collaborate with the multi-disciplinary teams across the care hub on the development of best practice.
• To promote a trauma informed model of care across the care hub.
• To provide support, leadership and containment for colleagues working across the care hub.
• To consider and proactively support staff’s wellbeing, including facilitation of debriefs following any incidents and facilitating reflective practice sessions as need dictates.To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies, and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
• To gain highly specialised/extended expertise in particular psychological approaches and/or with client groups and/or in management through further specialist supervision and experience supported by a programme of professional development as identified in an agreed personal development plan.
• To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical line management supervision to psychology staff working in the unit and the wider care hub.
• To provide advice, consultation, training, and clinical supervision to other professionals for their provision of psychologically informed assessment and psychologically based interventions.
• To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology as appropriate.To maintain and develop skills in pre-and post-graduate training and
clinical supervision.
• To contribute to personal development / performance reviews for psychology staff across the care hub.
• To actively participate in continuing professional development involving a variety of activities including attending seminars, conferences, reading and courses.
• To be responsible for maintaining up to date records of any CPD or mandatory training activities undertaken.To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service for the care hub including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
• To exercise responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to the teams, whether in the form of other qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials used in the assessment and treatment of adults, families, and carers.
• To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the care hub.
• To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistants, clinical associates in psychology, and qualified clinical psychologists.To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician in the evaluation, monitoring and development of aspects of the team’s clinical practice, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence- based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
• To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
• To initiate project management working in conjunction with the care hub Project Manager, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to service users and their families.To promote a person-centred service philosophy for service users and carer’s’.
• Ensure, as far as practicable, the full involvement of service users – and where appropriate, relatives and carer’s – in the assessment of service user needs and the formulation and review of their care plans.
• Promote user and carer involvement in the recruitment and training of staff.
• Promote user and Carer involvement in the evaluation and development of service
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Mar 2025