Clinical Psychologist - Band 7/8a Development post
Band 8a
Main area Clinical Psychologist Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
* Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week (Flexible working patterns considered) Job ref 373-SMH2341
Site Joselyn Solly Resource Centre, Macclesfield. Delamere Resource Centre, Crewe. Town Macclesfield Salary £46,148 - £60,504 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 03/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000
The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.
Clinical Psychologist Band 8a or 7/8a Development post.
We have an exciting opportunity for several passionate and compassionate clinicians to join our team of psychologists & mental health practitioners, in our Complex Needs Service. This service primarily focuses on working with individuals that attract a diagnosis of 'personality disorder'.
You would be joining a team that includes a Consultant, Principal and Clinical Psychologist to help offer assessment, formulation and interventions to our local community. The main modalities of DBT, SCM and MBT are a core part of working, alongside therapeutic skills developed in clinical training and shaped in individual sessions. We are a warm and friendly team and importance is placed on your own supervision and CPD. Training in evidence-based interventions will be provided.
The post is offered as a permanent 8a position for an experienced Clinical Psychologist, and applications are also welcome from recently /soon to be qualified individuals who have a keen desire to work in this area. For newly qualified applicants, the post will be offered as a development post, band 7-8a, in line with the trust’s Preceptorship and Development post protocol.
Informal discussions and visits are welcomed.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high-quality specialist psychology service, including specialist psychological assessment, therapy and consultation to adults who are referred into the Complex Needs Service in East Cheshire & typically attract a diagnosis of 'personality disorder'.
In CWP, we have good links with Northwest doctoral training programmes and regularly offer trainee placements. The post holder would be expected to clinically supervise and manage the workloads of trainee clinical psychologists and assistant psychologists within the service as required.
Supervision will be from the Principal or Consultant Clinical Psychologist and the post holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
There will be opportunities to work with your Clinical Psychologist colleagues to support ongoing service development.
You will be committed to your own continuing professional development and have a role in supporting the development and training of the multi-disciplinary team as well as a critical awareness of the importance of building and maintaining good relationships with other services. There will be opportunities to contribute to service evaluation, audit, and research.
Working for our organisation
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.
As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
We also offer up to three weeks’ induction, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you hit the ground running with CWP.
Detailed job description and main 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.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.
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. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: 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.
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 £16 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.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
* HCPC registration
* Additional Psychotherapy qualification relevant to working with clients with complex psychological and mental health difficulties
Knowledge & Expertise
* Skills in conducting complex psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
* Skills in completing neuropsychological assessments, interpretation of results, and ability to communicate these sensitively as appropriate
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and/or clinically sensitive information to clients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Skills in providing Consultation to other professionals and nonprofessional groups
* Evidence of supervision training/qualification
* Experience of supervising Assistant Psychologists, other psychological practitioners and/or MDT colleagues in psychological approaches
* Experience of research, audit/service evaluation
Experience
* Experience of working as a clinical psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied complex, psychological and mental health difficulties
* Experience of working within multi-professional teams
* Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients
* Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care
* Experience of liaison with other health professionals
* Experience of providing teaching and training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Dr Vicky Selby Job title Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address victoria.selby3@nhs.net Telephone number 01625712100 Additional information
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100.
Giving you time to care, space to think and opportunity to grow
We are Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP). We provide 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. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.
Our services are provided in partnership with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary and independent organisations, people who access our services, their carers and families. The Trust has over 14,500 members and employs more than 4,000 staff across 62 sites, serving a population of over one million people and highly specialist services for two million people.
We offer career opportunities to staff across a range of professions, including:
* Allied health professions - including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, and speech and language therapy
* Medical - including psychiatry and general practice
* Pharmacy
* Clinical support roles
* Estates and facilities
* Support services roles - including HR, communications, ICT, finance and more
At CWP, we believe in giving our staff the time to care, the space to think and the opportunity to grow.
With vacancies across a range of professions, wherever you’re at in your career journey, you’ll find something to suit you. So why not join our team today?
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