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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.
About us
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values and Behaviours in their everyday life.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
2. Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
3. HCPC registration
Desirable
1. Formal qualification in supervision
2. BPS chartered status and/or membership of ACPUK.
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
1. Highly specialist skills in undertaking complex psychological and cognitive/neuropsychological assessment, intervention and evaluation frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
2. 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.
3. Formally trained and expert in supervising Trainee Clinical Psychologists
4. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of applied psychology and specialised psychological therapies in working with people with complex difficulties (e.g. severe MH problems personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Desirable
1. Leadership training and/or awareness of different leadership models and systems thinking
Experience
Essential
1. Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
2. Experience of providing consultation, training, support and supervision/reflective practice to other professionals and non-professionals.
3. Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
4. Service development experience
Desirable
1. Involvement in local and/or national academic and/or professional body and other professional activities.
Employer details
Employer name
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bowmere Hospital, Countess of Chester Health Park, Chester, CH2 1BQ
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