Lead Psychologist, PICU — Flexible Part-Time

Pennine Care; Ashton-in-Makerfield; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Improvement & research activities

Health and wellbeing activities

Staff discounts

Job summary

Pennine Care is advertising a permanent 0.9WTE Principal Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling or Forensic) to work in Walkerwood PICU at Tameside General Hospital. The role focuses on high-quality psychological care for adults in crisis, within a trauma-informed MDT framework.

We seek a highly skilled psychologist capable of leadership, assessment and therapy for complex presentations, with supervision from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a strong network across acute

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical,counselling,forensic psychology.
• Experience delivering psychology services in acute inpatient settings.
• Experience with complex mental health presentations.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology for the PICU.
• Deliver a high quality clinical psychology service to adults with complex mental health problems.
• Provide highly specialised psychological assessment and therapy and offer advice to colleagues and other professional groups.
• Work as part of the wider MDT, contributing to formulation-driven care, risk assessments and team discussions.
• Support inpatient colleagues through supervision, reflective practice and post-incident spaces where appropriate.
• Contribute to audit, policy/service development and research; propose and implement policy changes.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and Trust policies and procedures; provide clinical supervision to staff.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Psychology service delivery

Risk assessment

MDT collaboration

Education

Post-graduate doctoral training in clinical/counselling/forensic

Job description

Pennine Care is advertising a permanent 0.9WTE Principal Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling or Forensic) to work in Walkerwood PICU at Tameside General Hospital. The role focuses on high-quality psychological care for adults in crisis, within a trauma-informed MDT framework.

We seek a highly skilled psychologist capable of leadership, assessment and therapy for complex presentations, with supervision from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a strong network across acute