Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Cared For Care Leavers Lead

PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled, compassionate, experienced consultant clinical psychologist to join Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, across Specialist CAMHS services to lead the design and delivery of the trust-wide Cared For Children & Care Leavers (CFCL) offer across the CAMHS care hub. The successful candidate will clinically lead the therapeutic offer for CFCL across the Pennine Care footprint ensuring consistency in approach and reduction in variation across our five boroughs. In addition, a key role is to support whole system transformation and lead programmes of change that ensure that the principles of "Future in Mind" and iThrive recommendations are delivered across the Pennine Care footprint for Cared For Children. This is also an exciting new role to develop an enhanced offer across the Pennine Care footprint for children and young people who are cared for by GM Local Authorities placed within our 5 Trust boroughs. You will lead highly skilled, passionate colleagues in enhancing existing services and linking with partners across our services to work collaboratively to support children, young people and their families. Please refer to the job description for further information about role and key responsibilities.

We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the CAMHS Care Hub.

We support staff to work flexibly and recognise and respect the roles our colleagues hold outside of their working hours.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone's value should be recognised and respected. We proactively challenge injustices, and are the only Trust in the North West to publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice.

Development and values

We are committed to staff development and have an extensive psychological therapies training programme.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities. Our purpose is to maximise people's potential to live more rewarding lives and to create a great place to work. Our values are kindness, fairness, ingenuity and determination. Our ambitions aim to provide Outstanding care, a Great place to work, and an ethos of Listen to improve.