Principal Clinical Psychologist - Locality Lead - Wirral
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000
This is an exciting opportunity to be the Principal Clinical Psychologist (Band 8b) to work as Psychology Lead within the Crisis and Home Treatment as part of the First Response pathway. There are three posts available in total, one for each locality. These posts are part of a new initiative to develop Acute Pathway Psychology provision in the Trust and demonstrate CWPs commitment to improving the psychological and trauma informed care provided to patients, families, and staff in the acute services pathway.
Main duties of the job
As the Principal Clinical Psychologist Locality Lead you will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership within the Crisis and Home Treatment Team. This will include developing and maintaining a systematic, high quality, evidence-based psychology service for patients accessing the First Response Service in the locality. You will work with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, locality leadership team(s) and specialty 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 also provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention, and input to care and treatment planning and discharge planning for individual patients, working as part of the multidisciplinary team and as an autonomous Clinical Psychologist.
About us
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* 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
Desirable
* Formal qualification in supervision
* BPS chartered status and/or membership of ACPUK.
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
* 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
Experience
Essential
* 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
* Service development experience
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Springview Psychiatric Unit
Clatterbridge Health Park
Bebington
CH63 4JY
Employer's website
https://www.cwp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/
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