Job Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled, compassionate, experienced consultant clinical psychologist to join us in Pennine Care NHS foundation trust CAMHS.
Why Pennine Care CAMHS?
We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the CAMHS Care Hub. We support staff to work flexibly and recognise and respect the roles our colleagues hold outside of their working hours. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone's value should be recognised and respected. We proactively challenge injustices, and are the only Trust in the North West to publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice. We are committed to staff development and have an extensive psychological therapies training programme.
Main Duties of the Job
To lead the design and delivery of evidence-based care pathways and psychological interventions for a range of childhood emotional health and well-being issues across the local system. To support whole system transformation and lead programmes of change that ensure that the principles of "Future in Mind" and iThrive recommendations are delivered within the locality. Ensure the systematic provision of high-quality clinical psychology and psychological interventions in the multidisciplinary team for the child and family population of the locality, across all sectors of care. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service. Embed a local culture of early intervention and develop the recovery and self-management agenda within all.
About Us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
* Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
* Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance.
* Access to Continued Professional Development.
* Involvement in improvement and research activities.
* Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
* Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.
Date Posted: 25 March 2025
Pay Scheme: Agenda for Change
Band: Band 8c
Salary: £74,290 to £85,601 a year pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Part-time
Reference Number: 311-HYM667-25-A
Job Locations:
Stopford House, Piccadilly, Stockport, SK1 3XE
Job Responsibilities
As the Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist, the post holder would provide clinical leadership for the Clinical Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, and practitioners delivering psychological interventions in the locality CAMHS. These other posts would include generic psychology posts and specialist psychological posts working with Looked After Children, Autism and Learning Disability and therapists posts across a range of modalities. Across Pennine Care, there has been recent publication of Psychological Therapies plan for working age and older adults and a Psychological Therapies plan for children and young people is being developed.
Key Result Areas - Clinical:
1. To ensure the development and delivery of whole system evidence-based care pathways that have a strong emphasis on recovery, self-management, capacity building and placing expertise at points where CYP can easily access.
2. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the multidisciplinary team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including systematic clinical psychometric procedures, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
Person Specification - Application and Interview Essential:
* Doctorate level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and child developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS or a BPS. Or a post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) Statement of equivalence.
* Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with demonstrable experience as a highly specialist clinical psychologist with Children and young people and/or their families/carers. Experience in undertaking line management of psychological therapies staff.
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Highly developed skills and experience of working with complex, sensitive or contentious information.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of children and young people (including those with complex additional needs) and their families in a range of settings including their homes, other community and acute care settings, Residential and foster care environments for LAC.
Desirable:
* Additional further training and qualifications in a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT, CAT, psycho-analytic therapies).
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies to treat specific groups of service users.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship:
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.
UK Registration:
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Pennine Care NHS FT
Address:
Stopford House, Piccadilly, Stockport, SK1 3XE
Employer's Website: https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk
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