Clinical Psychologists Chester
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Job summary
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a 0.5 WTE Clinical Psychologist in the Eating Disorders Service, covering Wirral and West Cheshire. Base at Upton Lea, Bowmere Hospital, Chester.
You will provide high-quality psychology services for eating disorders, including assessments, therapy, consultation, and supervision. You will work autonomously within service policies and supervise trainees and colleagues as agreed.
Qualifications
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent.
- Registration with the HCPC (HPC) is essential.
Responsibilities
- Provide psychological leadership within the team.
- Deliver clinical supervision to practitioners.
- Undertake assessment and treatment of clients with eating disorders.
- Facilitate team discussions and formulate client cases.
- Participate in quality improvement measures regarding psychological interventions.
- Complete documentation to support ED treatment pathways.
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Job description
A 0.5 WTE Clinical Psychology role is available in have become available in CWP Eating Disorders Service, based in the Wirral and West Cheshire Eating Disorders Service. Base will be Upton Lea, Bowmere Hospital, Chester.
The successful candidate will provide a high quality, specialist psychology service to clients suffering from Eating Disorders. They will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, as well as providing consultation and advice on clients' psychological care to non-psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and carers. They will supervise trainees and qualified practitioners as agreed, working autonomously within theframework of the service's policies and procedures.
- Providing psychological leadership within the team.
- Delivering clinical supervision to practitioners
- Delivering assessment and treatment of clients with Eating Disorders
- Facilitating team discussions and formulating client cases.
- Participating in quality improvement measures in regard to psychological interventions.
- Completing appropriate documentation and processes to facilitate ED treatment pathways
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.
Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.
As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.
Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you'll find something to suit you at CWP.
03 September 2026
Agenda for change
Band 8a
£57,528 to £64,750 a year
per annum pro rata
Permanent
Part-time,
Flexible working,
Term time hours
373-SMH2689
Upton Lea
Bowmere Hospital
Chester
CH2 1BQ
United Kingdom
At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours.
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 £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or
- HPC Registered
- Additional Psychotherapy qualification relevant to working with clients with complex psychological and mental health difficulties
- 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
- Skills in completing neuropsychological assesssments, interpretation of results, and ability to communicate these sensitively as appropriate
- Evidence of supervision training/qualification
- Experience of supervising Assistant Psychologists, other psychological practitioners and/or MDT colleagues in psychological approaches
- Experience of research, audit/service evaluation
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied complex, psychological and mental health difficulties
- Experience of working within multi-professional teams
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals
- Experience of providing teaching and training
- : Demonstrate alignment with Trust Values (6 C's: Commitment, Communication, Care, Courage, Compassion, Competency)
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Upton Lea
Bowmere Hospital
Chester
CH2 1BQ
United Kingdom
https://www.cwp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)
Clinical Psychologist
Laura Hill
laura.hill28@nhs.net
01625508507
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