Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-CMT-6363556
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Greenfield Centre
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £43,742 - £57,349 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
B7/8a Preceptorship Clinical Psychologist Post – Greenfields Centre
We are a friendly and innovative team looking for a like-minded Clinical Psychologist to join us at the Greenfields Centre in Tunstall, Stoke-on Trent. We would gladly consider a newly qualified B7 for a preceptorship post and provide support to move to the 8a in due course. The post provides an exciting opportunity to be part of an evolving and fast paced adult community mental health service and to work with service users who have complex mental health difficulties. We have been developing services to improve our offer of psychological therapies and to embed new clinical pathways, putting us in a great position to support team members in pursuing specific areas of interest such as evidence-based interventions for psychosis or complex trauma.
On appointment, you will be a core and valued part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team, working alongside a Consultant and Principal Clinical Psychologist, as well as other psychology and therapy colleagues. There are opportunities to develop your clinical skills in a range of group and individual interventions such as CBT, CFT and CAT. In addition, the role will involve working closely with the wider MDT to develop psychological mindedness and support others to develop psychological skills and knowledge.
Main duties of the job
You will have the opportunity to receive excellent supervision and there are a range of CPD opportunities. We provide access to supervision and interest groups in various models (CAT, CFT, EMDR), as well as opportunity for participation in quality innovations, research, and audit. We have strong links with the local Clinical Psychology Training course at Staffordshire University.
The role provides opportunity to cultivate skills in supervising others too, such as assistant psychologists, CAPS and MHWPs. In addition, the supervision of other professional groups in the team is valued, as are other team-based activities such as joint formulation and contributing to MDT and team meetings. We are supportive of flexible working and would welcome applications from those wishing to blend time at the office with remote working.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide training and supervision to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
To undertake formal research as an integral part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees.
To be proactive in continual service improvement within own area.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
- Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of: Evidence-based practice relevant to the role
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Charlotte Morris
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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