Principal Clinical Psychologist – Locality Lead
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Come and join our dynamic East Cheshire Community Mental Health Teams! You will be working alongside a well-established MDT including social workers, mental health nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, and many other AHPs who will support you in delivering excellent holistic care.
CWP are seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our team. The post holder will cover the Crewe and Macclesfield area (East/Central) patch.
Crewe is well known for its extensive transportation links and thriving live music scene as well as a range of amenities that make it an up-and-coming town to work in. Macclesfield is a scenic market town with historic providence, hosting extensive transportation links.
While primarily responsible for supporting the management of our developing psychology offer within the East/Central CMHTs and delivering a quality clinical service, the post holder would also be supported to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team and broader services.
Come and join us on this opportunity to grow and learn alongside a robust team of clinical professionals and truly make a difference to the community we serve!
Main duties of the job
To lead on the delivery of specialist psychology services to clients open to Community Mental Health Services (East locality).
To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy/treatment and interventions.
To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to multidisciplinary colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
To provide training, supervision, and support to multidisciplinary colleagues.
To supervise assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, and qualified clinical psychologists and other psychological practitioners as agreed.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.
About us 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. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We promote equality and diversity and develop 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.
Job 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.
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. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website.
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.
CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.
Person Specification Qualifications
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.
BPS chartered status and/or membership of ACPUK.
Experience
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.
Involvement in local and/or national academic and/or professional body and other professional activities.
Knowledge & Expertise
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.
Leadership training and/or awareness of different leadership models and systems thinking.
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.
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Delamere Resource Centre/Jocelyn Solly Resource Centre
£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum pro rata
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Full-time
Reference number 373-SMH2255
Job locations Delamere Resource Centre/Jocelyn Solly Resource Centre
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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.
Come and join our dynamic East Cheshire Community Mental Health Teams! You will be working alongside a well-established MDT including social workers, mental health nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, and many other AHPs who will support you in delivering excellent holistic care.
CWP are seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our team. The post holder will cover the Crewe and Macclesfield area (East/Central) patch.
Crewe is well known for its extensive transportation links and thriving live music scene as well as a range of amenities that make it an up-and-coming town to work in. Macclesfield is a scenic market town with historic providence, hosting extensive transportation links.
While primarily responsible for supporting the management of our developing psychology offer within the East/Central CMHTs and delivering a quality clinical service, the post holder would also be supported to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team and broader services.
Come and join us on this opportunity to grow and learn alongside a robust team of clinical professionals and truly make a difference to the community we serve!
Main duties of the job
To lead on the delivery of specialist psychology services to clients open to Community Mental Health Services (East locality).
To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy/treatment and interventions.
To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to multidisciplinary colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
To provide training, supervision, and support to multidisciplinary colleagues.
To supervise assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, and qualified clinical psychologists and other psychological practitioners as agreed.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.
About us 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. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We promote equality and diversity and develop 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.
Job 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.
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. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website.
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.
CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.
Person Specification Qualifications
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.
BPS chartered status and/or membership of ACPUK.
Experience
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.
Involvement in local and/or national academic and/or professional body and other professional activities.
Knowledge & Expertise
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.
Leadership training and/or awareness of different leadership models and systems thinking.
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.
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Delamere Resource Centre/Jocelyn Solly Resource Centre
£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum pro rata
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Full-time
Reference number 373-SMH2255
Job locations Delamere Resource Centre/Jocelyn Solly Resource Centre
#J-18808-Ljbffr
