Main area
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
373-SMH2150
Site
Bowmere Hospital
Town
Chester
Salary
£58,972 - £68,525 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/10/2024 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.
This is an exciting opportunity to be the Principal Clinical Psychologist (Band 8b) within the Adult Acute Inpatient Service and High Dependency Rehabilitation Service as part of the First Response pathway.
This post is part of a new initiative to develop acute pathway psychology provision in the Trust and demonstrate CWP’s commitment to improving the psychological and trauma informed care provided to patients, families, and staff in the inpatient services pathway within Cheshire West.
The post involves working across two acute adult inpatient wards, a PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit), and a high dependency rehabilitation ward. You will join an established psychology team and work within a team of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.
Main duties of the job
As the Principal Clinical Psychologist you will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership within the inpatient service in the West locality. You will 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.
This will include developing and maintaining a systematic, high quality, evidence-based psychology service for patients accessing the First Response Service and the Rehabilitation Service in the locality. You will work with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, locality leadership team(s), and speciality clinical network to enhance and evaluate the psychological care offer provided by a multi-professional workforce.
Working for our organisation
Continued Professional Development is available and supported by the Trust. You will be taking a strategic and pragmatic approach to service evaluation, audit, and research as part of on-going quality improvement.
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, 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 Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’ Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment.
An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email – 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* 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 criteria
* Formal qualification in supervision
* BPS chartered status and/or membership of ACPUK.
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential criteria
* 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
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of applied psychology and specialised psychological therapies in working with people with complex difficulties.
Desirable criteria
* Leadership training and/or awareness of different leadership models and systems thinking
Experience
Essential criteria
* 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
Desirable criteria
* Involvement in local and/or national academic and/or professional body and other professional activities.
Applicant requirements
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.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name
Dr Samantha Woodley
Job title
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address
samantha.woodley@nhs.net
Telephone number
01244 397459
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
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