Main area: Mental Health
Grade Band: 7 or Band 8a dependent on experience
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Compressed hours
30 hours per week (Non-working day may not be Wednesday. Happy to discuss flexible working)
Job ref: 437-6701714
Employer: Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hexagon Tower
Town: Manchester
Salary: £46,148 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/12/2024 23:59
Senior Psychotherapist/Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 7 or Band 8a dependent on experience
Job overview
An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen to develop services by offering a permanent Band 7 or Band 8a Senior Psychotherapist/clinical/counselling psychologist (0.8 wte).
We are keen to consider applications from individuals with direct perinatal experience or those seeking to develop their skills in a new and innovative role.
Come and join our expanding psychological therapies team within a passionate and friendly service.
The Specialist Perinatal Service is a well-established multidisciplinary community team providing a range of tailored approaches to meet the mental health needs of women, birthing people, and their families in the perinatal period.
Our core purpose is to work with women, birthing people to address their mental health needs and mitigate any impact on the unborn baby and infant. We aim to provide a timely, integrated, high quality, and effective service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake initial assessments and direct therapeutic work with women/birthing people experiencing a wide range of mental health problems, often relating to complex trauma or attachment difficulties.
There are also opportunities for indirect working, including supervision, consultation, and training to both colleagues within the Specialist Perinatal Team and wider systems.
The post offers an incredibly supportive team working environment. The successful post holder will receive regular and consistent line management, clinical and professional supervision, and develop relationships with established psychologists and psychological therapists working within the service.
Our service is keen to recruit people who enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary team, who are passionate, creative, adaptable, and responsive to working with and meeting the needs of women, birthing people, partners, and families during such a fundamentally important and crucial time.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Professional qualification in Clinical / Counselling Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
* Registration as a Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist with the HCPC
* Post qualification training in a specialised area of psychological practice (e.g. CBT, IPT, CFT, EMDR, Systemic, CAT, DBT etc)
* Training in recognised Parent Infant Mental Health courses
* Completed formal training in supervision
Experience
* Experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist
* Experience of working with client groups experiencing moderate-severe mental health problems across the life span
* Experience of delivering structured psychological interventions to clients with complex psychological problems
* Experience of working with trauma and providing trauma-focused psychological therapy
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment
* Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
* Experience of providing supervision
* Experience of providing teaching and training
* Experience of working in specialist perinatal services
* Experience of working in parent-infant mental health settings, where the child is less than 2 years old
Knowledge
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups
* Practitioner level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
* Knowledge of policy and legislation in relation to perinatal mental health
Skills and Abilities
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
* Skills in formulation of dynamic risk and development and implementation of positive risk management plans
* Ability to organise time effectively
* Ability to use own initiative and to work under supervision where appropriate
* Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
* Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups
Other Requirements
* Ability to teach and train others
* Ability to identify, and employ as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
* Ability to travel to a range of locations in a timely and efficient manner.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Important Information about working for GMMH:
All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve.
If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
Sponsorship
We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa.
If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility.
**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**
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