Principal Clinical Psychologist (8B)

Derbyshirehealthcareft; Whitwell; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist, Band 8B, to provide maternity cover in Bolsover, Derbyshire. The post is 22.5 hours per week over 54 weeks, starting January or sooner, based in Bolsover.

You will lead, supervise, and develop psychological services, delivering individual and group work, supervision, and training across the North County CMHT, with a focus on trauma-informed and compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology eligible for Chartered status.
• Registered with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.
• Post-qualification supervision training for psychologists.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and management across North County CMHT.
• Deliver individual and group clinical work with colleagues.
• Offer advice, consultation and supervision to colleagues and multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to service development and trauma-informed practice.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision of psychologists

Strategic service development

Education

Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

HCPC Practitioner Psychologist registration

Specialist psychotherapy training

Job description

Would you like to work alongside other friendly, enthusiastic and supportive psychological therapists in Adult Community Mental Health in Bolsover in Derbyshire? We are looking for a Principal Clinical Psychologist, Band 8B to provide cover for a maternity leave in the North County area of Derbyshire, based in Bolsover. This role is 22.5 hours (3 days per week) for 54 weeks, commencing in January or sooner.

Our team of Psychologists & Psychological therapists are passionate about developing services that create meaningful change based on lived experience, so that people flourish, feel connected and empowered to pursue their aspirations.

We warmly welcome enquiries for a chat about options and your interests.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to provide individual and group clinical work jointly with your colleagues. You will also promote psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multi-disciplinary practitioners, the wider organisation and contribute to service development. As a senior psychological clinician, you will also be providing leadership, supervision and management roles across the North County as well as providing clinical work in the Bolsover locality.

We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, for example, by access to training resources to support your work. We offer specialist clinical supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups e.g. CFT, complex trauma and dissociation supervision.

Working in our friendly care group of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, you will be well supported in CPD opportunities. Our team report feeling valued and supported working in a service focused on staff well-being and development, and service transformation.

About us

You will be based in the Bolsover Adult CMHT, joining a dynamic group of over 260 staff in our care group of Psychology & Psychological Therapies. We are committed to our compassionate framework within which your development and well-being will be nurtured. You will be joining us at a time of exciting, innovative and values based transformation as we develop and progress our services to deliver place based and needs led integrated care across our localities, with trauma informed and trauma sensitive practice at the forefront of these developments.

This is an exciting transformational time for us in developing our services with our focus on 'Living Well' Community Mental Health Framework changes and developing trauma-informed care in our CMHTs: transformation movements with collaboration, lived experience and compassionate relationships at their core and in which Psychological Services have a pivotal role.

Training and Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the B.P.S., and giving eligibility for Chartered status of B.P.S.
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
• Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists
• Significant post qualification specialist training/experience in assessment and intervention to people with complex, severe and enduring mental health / psychological problems
• Specialist training across a range of relevant adult mental health presentations
• Post qualification training in a therapy model
• Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists
• Specialist accredited psychotherapy training for complex presentations

Experience

• Experience of working with clients with a range of mental health problems in a broad range of settings
• Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including at a highly specialist level (usually for a minimum of four years, including two years at a highly specialised level)
• Substantial experience working with a wide variety of clients with complex presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Clear commitment to developing a specialist area of expertise relevant to the post through significant training, personal study, experience and/or research
• Expertise and interest in a specialist area relevant to adult mental health

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.