Clinical Psychologist

Transformationunitgm; Manchester; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Manchester is seeking a dedicated Clinical Psychologist for the Paediatric Psychosocial Service. This role offers the chance to impact the lives of adolescents and young adults facing significant health challenges. Join a collaborative environment that prioritizes professional development and research opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience working within paediatric, adolescent, or adult health psychology.
• Post-qualification experience in a relevant therapeutic modality.

Responsibilities

• Providing evidence-based psychological assessments.
• Contributing to MDT care planning and audits.
• Establishing and developing the clinical psychology service.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Teamwork

Risk assessment

Education

Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology

Registration with HCPC

Job description

Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Christie Hospital Town Manchester Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 06/07/2025 23:59

Clinical Psychologist

Band 8a

Job overview

The Paediatric Psychosocial Service at Royal Manchester Children Hospital is looking for a committed Psychologist looking for a rewarding job, where you can make a difference as you develop your expertise. This role is for an 0.8 wte HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist, at band 8a. This post provides an exciting opportunity to develop and provide a new clinical psychology service responsible for the psychological care for teenagers and young adults with cancer.

The post will be located at the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) Centre at the Christie Hospital in South Manchester and organisationally based within the Paediatric Psychosocial Service at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, part of Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

You will work alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist within the team, been responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and neuropsychological assessments, MDT working, risk assessment and facilitating staff reflective practice sessions.

As a Psychologist, you will have experience and knowledge in carrying a service user’s caseload, including assessing complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatments to support their care plans.

There is a strong emphasis on teamwork with regular supervision and CPD opportunities available to support you in reaching your career aspirations.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities:

· Providing evidence-based psychological assessment

· Helping to establishing and developing the clinical psychology service

· Contributing to MDT care planning and review

· Contributing to audit and research

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

· Accredited post-graduate qualification in Clinical Psychology

· Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) (or qualification pending)

· Post-qualification experience of working within the fields of paediatric, adolescent or adult health psychology

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We work with hospital inpatients, groups, and with face-to-face as well as online/virtual modalities. We run patient groups, consultation groups and psychosocial meetings with other medical specialties, we actively contribute to the wider Trust Schwartz team and support a range of therapeutic intervention modalities, including neuropsychology, family therapy, ACT, CFT, Narrative, CBT approaches and psychotherapeutic approaches.

We are a committed research service with our team contributing to a wide range of research projects and host some of our own too. Continuing professional development and further training is supported and encouraged at this grade in association with the appraisal process

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail] .

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Registration/ Accreditation

• HCPC

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.
• Pre-qualification training or experience with children and adolescents / adults with health conditions.
• Post-qualification training in a specific therapeutic modality relevant to a health setting.

Experience and Knowledge

• Significant and demonstrable experience of working as a specialist clinical psychologist across the age range with a full range of presenting problems and across settings including community, outpatient, and clinic settings.
• Experience with children and adolescents / adults with health conditions.
• Experience of assessing and managing risk in a therapeutic setting
• Experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork.
• Experience of teaching, training, and professional and clinical supervision
• Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of facilitating debrief meetings/staff support with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills and Ability.

• Ability to plan and prioritise own caseload.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management in work with children and families / adult health care service users.
• Ability to integrate psychological theories and outcome data with clinical practice and service provision.
• Ability to represent psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
• Ability to work with people from different backgrounds, cultures and of different ages.
• Demonstrate sensitivity in all contact with disadvantaged groups.
• Ability to cope with stressful interpersonal situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
• Skills and experience in group interventions

Education and supervision

• Experience in designing, planning, and undertaking clinical research and service evaluation.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
• Experience of teaching, training and supervision of assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.
• Experience in teaching and training staff from other professional groups in psychological skills and concepts.
• Positive approach to own continuing professional development.

Personal Attributes

• A commitment to undertake further relevant training and self-directed study.
• Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required.
• Willingness to contribute to team functioning, performance, and the ongoing development of the service.

Work Related Circumstance

• Use of a car or access to a means of travel across the Trust footprint and externally in line with service needs
• Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.