Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Greater Manchester Mental Health; Prestwich; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a highly specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join a passionate team in a fixed-term role. This position focuses on enhancing the mental health of mothers and their families during the perinatal period. You'll be part of a well-established multidisciplinary service, recognized for its excellence. The role involves providing high-quality psychological assessments and interventions while working collaboratively within a supportive environment. If you're looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health care and have the relevant qualifications, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in Clinical/Counselling Psychology at doctoral level.
• Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC is required.

Responsibilities

• Improve psychological health of mothers and birthing people with complex mental health needs.
• Provide psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for clients.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Psychological intervention

Clinical supervision

Communication skills

Time management

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Teaching and training

Education

Doctoral qualification in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

Registration with HCPC

Post qualification training in specialized psychological practice

Job description

Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area: Mental Health

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity cover for 9 months)

Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working)

Job ref: 437-6717419-A

Site: Prestwich Hospital

Town: Manchester

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 09/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen to develop services by offering a fixed term (9 months) Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (0.6 wte).

We are keen to consider applications from individuals with direct perinatal experience or those seeking to develop their skills in a new and innovative role.

Come and join our expanding psychological therapies team within a passionate and friendly service.

The Specialist Perinatal Service is a well-established multidisciplinary community team providing a range of tailored approaches to meet the mental health needs of women, birthing people, and their families in the perinatal period. We were recently recognised at GMMH’s Celebrating Excellence Awards.

Our core purpose is to work with women, birthing people to address their mental health needs and mitigate any impact on the unborn baby and infant. We aim to provide a timely, integrated, high quality, and effective service.

Main duties of the job

The principal purpose of this job is to improve the psychological health and wellbeing of mothers, birthing people who have complex mental health needs and their babies. This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:

1. To work with the Team Managers and Principal Clinical Psychologist to ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality psychological service in the Specialist Perinatal Service.
2. To carry a caseload of clients, providing psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, and providing advice and consultancy to patients and professionals.
3. To provide supervision and consultation for staff employed by the Specialist Perinatal Service.
4. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within professional and Trust guidelines.
5. To receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy and professional practice guidelines set out by the appropriate designated professional body.

Working for our organisation

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in Clinical / Counselling Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
• Registration as a Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist with the HCPC
• Post qualification training in a specialised area of psychological practice (e.g CBT, IPT, EMDR, Systemic, CAT, DBT etc)
• Training in recognised Parent Infant Mental Health courses
• Completed formal training in supervision

Experience

• Experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist
• Experience of working with client groups experiencing moderate-severe mental health problems across the life span
• Experience of delivering structured psychological interventions to clients with complex psychological problems
• Experience of working with trauma and providing trauma-focused psychological therapy
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of providing supervision
• Experience of providing teaching and training
• Experience of working in specialist perinatal services
• Experience of working in parent-infant mental health settings, where the child is less than 2 years old

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc)
• Practitioner level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Knowledge of policy and legislation in relation to perinatal mental health

Skills and Abilities

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to organise time effectively
• Ability to use own initiative and to work under supervision where appropriate
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals
• Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups

Other Requirements

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Ability to travel to a range of locations in a timely and efficient manner.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Important Information about working for GMMH:
All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities.

Sponsorship
We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications.

If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.

**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**