Job summary
- Main area
- Practitioner Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 7 - Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 373-SMH1993-C RR
- Employer
- Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Delamere Resource Centre
- Town
- Crewe
- Salary
- £43,742 - £57,349 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 / 8a Development post for Practitioner Psychologist
Band 7 - Band 8a
Job overview
**We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000**
The relocation package is for anyone joining the Trust in a Clinical role who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Please see Relocation Guidance document.
We are really excited to advertise this development post for a passionate and enthusiastic ,HCPC registered, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
We have an existing, highly skilled and passionate Psychology team in Crewe, across both Adult and Older adult CMHT, and we are keen to grow and invite the richness of additional perspectives and skills, from a newly qualified or more experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist .
The successful candidate will be supported to access formal psychological therapy training from NHSE on modalities such as SCM, CAT,CBT for Psychosis , in order to help us deliver the CMHT Transformation agenda and NHS Long term plan.
CPW is committed to supporting and nurturing career progression, across the career pathway, and the successful candidate will be supported with extensive professional and clinical supervision frameworks and multiple opportunities to develop their specialist clinical (including developing/ enhancing therapeutic modalities) and professional skills through an extensive and well-resourced CPD structure.
Main duties of the job
We have very close, integrated links with other Clinical Psychologists in the locality, across services such as the Enhanced primary care and Complex Needs service. We regularly offer trainee Clinical Psychology placements and we have very close links with all 3 DClin Psych courses For the qualified 8A candidate supervision training is essential. We are passionate about developing a diverse and flexibly working workforce and we support hybrid working to meet people’s needs better.
To provide a highly specialist psychology service to clients with complex psychological and mental health presentations. To provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions as well as providing consultation and advice on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To supervise trainees, assistant psychologists and other qualified psychological practitioners as agreed. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. To regularly engage with clinical supervision and CPD activities, according to professional registration requirements.
Working for our organisation
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.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing 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. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Detailed job description and main 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. Therefore, 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. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
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 https://www.cwp.nhs.uk/completing-application-guidance. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email – [email protected] or by calling 01244 393100.
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. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Silver’ award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).
The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
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 on 01244 393100.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, counselling or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
- HCPC Registered (Band 8a)
- BABCP/UKCP or other relevant registration professional body (Band 8a)
- Additional Psychotherapy qualification/ training relevant to working with complex presentations in one or more psychological therapies e.g CBT, Compassion focused Therapy, Brief interpersonal therapy, Dynamic Interpersonal therapy
- Supervision training (Band 8a)
Desirable criteria
- Core NHS/Social Services professional training
Knowledge & Expertise
Essential criteria
- Skills in conducting complex psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and /or clinically sensitive information to clients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Skills in providing Consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups (Band 8a)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of supervision theory and practice
- Skills in working with people with complex and specialist needs
- Ability to apply psychological knowledge creatively in developing new initiatives.
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals (Band 8a)
- Experience of providing teaching and training (Band 8a)
- Experience of contributing to policy and service development (Band 8a)
- Awareness of national health care policy and guidance (Band 8a)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification NHS experience of working as a clinical, counselling or health psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied psychological problems
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients
- Experience of working as part of a multi-professional team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of providing teaching and training
- Experience of contributing to policy and service development
- Experience of working with Older Adults
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with complex clients.
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-professional team.
- Post-qualification NHS experience of working as a clinical, counselling or health psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied psychological problems (Band 8a)
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients (Band 8a)
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care within the context of a multi –disciplinary teams and care plans (Band 8a)
- Experience of working as part of a multi-professional team (Band 8a)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals
- Experience of providing clinical supervision (Band 8a)
- Experience of providing teaching and training (Band 8a)
- Experience of contributing to policy and service development (Band 8a)
- Experience of working with Older Adults (Band 8a)
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lina Papista
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01270 655200
- Additional information
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact [email protected] or telephone 01244 393100
Berniece Cross
Operational Team Manager
01270 655200
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