Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Staff benefits
1. Pay Enhancements:
Band
Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am
All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight)
1. 1: Time plus 47%, Time plus 94%
2. 2: Time plus 41%, Time plus 83%
3. 3: Time plus 35%, Time plus 69%
4. 4 - 9: Time plus 30%, Time plus 60%
* 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
* Excellent pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Salary sacrifice car scheme
* Wellbeing programme
* Blue Light Card Discounts
* fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Good Honours Degree in Psychology
* Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
* Eligibility to register as Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with HCPC
* BPS Accreditation
Desirable criteria
* Related Academic Qualification to Masters or Doctoral Level
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems, including highly emotive and distressing problems, challenging behaviour, severe and enduring mental health problems.
* Experience of working within and contributing to a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of specialist psychological & assessment (including neuropsychological assessment) and treatment of older adult clients and those with psychological difficulties in the context of an organic presentation (mainly dementia), across a full range of care settings, including in patient, community, and statutory, voluntary and private sector residential and nursing settings
* Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Up to date knowledge of the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health problems, including dementia.
Desirable criteria
* Training and experience of specialist assessment and treatment of older adult clients and those with psychological difficulties in the context of an organic presentation, across a full range of care settings, including in patient, community, and statutory, voluntary and private sector residential and nursing settings.
* Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to older people
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to demonstrate an interest in working with older adults and people with organic conditions.
* Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Well developed, effective communication skills, both orally and in writing, enabling complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to be shared with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies.
* Ability to prioritise work, operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern that requires regular revision of plans.
* Ability to sit in constrained position for client therapy, testing and for computer work.
* Ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression
* Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for client assessment and formulation, individual therapy sessions, interviews
* Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
Desirable criteria
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials, suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
* Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill in therapeutic intervention
* Ability to move equipment (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings.
Other
Essential criteria
* There is a frequent requirement to travel mainly within the Trafford area in order to visit patients and an occasional requirement to travel across the wider footprint of the Trust to attend meetings and events relevant to the role. Therefore car driver required (except where a supported driver arrangement can be provided under the Disability Discrimination Act)
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
* Ability to work towards goals agreed at Individual Appraisal with the Service Manager
* Ability to work to professional guidelines.
Important Information about working for GMMH:
All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, for further information on the checks required please visit the NHS Employers website www.nhsemployers.org
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
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, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. 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. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government's website - click here.
If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.
Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment. Please contact our Recruitment Team for more information.
**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
* Job Description and Person Spec (PDF, 336.4KB)
* Important Candidate information (PDF, 2.5MB)
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