Based at Atherleigh Park state of the art hospital, we are recruiting an enthusiastic 8b older adult clinical/counselling psychologist to work into our older persons ward, with a further remit to develop the provision and quality of psychological pathways for older people across Wigan Urgent Care Services. The post is available as a fixed-term post or secondment.
You will be joining an established urgent care psychology team, with 8a and 8b psychologists working into our acute wards, our Home Based Treatment and our Mental Health Liaison Team. We also have an 8c Clinical Lead psychologist who is also based in the team, plus a number of assistant psychologists, including an assistant for the older adult ward.
You will be part of the Inpatient Therapy Hub with activity coordinators, OT, psychologists, physiotherapists, and peer support workers. The ward multi-disciplinary teams are well established and have good working alliances with psychology. The Therapy Hub will also offer you the opportunity to contribute as well as receive staff wellbeing initiatives such as mindfulness and access to a gym. You will be supported by an assistant psychologist. The post holder will support the inpatient wards multi-disciplinary leadership teams and have a keen interest in service and team development. This post will provide varied work experiences across a range of competencies, within a supportive team.
The post will predominantly focus on working with older people with cognitive and other mental health difficulties in a ward environment, including working systemically to support the ward leadership team to develop their clinical pathways and increase the provision of psychologically and trauma-informed care, including support to embed the Newcastle model for dementia as well as a general PBS and recovery-focussed approach across the unit. You will have a small caseload offering individual assessment, formulation and brief interventions. The postholder will also support wider service development and evaluation. In addition, the successful candidate will work alongside psychologists and leaders in our other urgent care teams to review, develop and improve the provision of psychologically informed care and treatment for older people accessing our services at times of crisis, through both consultation and focussed service development work. Importantly, this is an older adult post, with your time protected exclusively for work with older people.
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, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
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.
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
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
Time plus 47%
Time plus 94%
2
Time plus 41%
Time plus 83%
3
Time plus 35%
Time plus 69%
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)
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