Principal Clinical Psychologist - Crisis and Home Treatment

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Chester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Chester is seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist Locality Lead to oversee a high-quality, evidence-based psychology service for patients. The role involves providing clinical leadership, training, and support for multidisciplinary teams while conducting specialized psychological assessments. Applicants must be HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists with significant experience and a commitment to ongoing professional development. Flexible work arrangements are encouraged, reflecting our values and dedication to quality improvement.

Benefits

Support for continuing professional development

Flexible work arrangements

Qualifications

• Significant, relevant experience as a Clinical Psychologist.
• Accreditation by the BPS for training.
• Experience in psychological evaluation and intervention.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the psychology service.
• Support multidisciplinary teams in patient care.
• Conduct training and supervision for professional staff.

Skills

HCPC registration

Complex psychological assessment

Communication skills

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Post-doctoral training in specialized areas

Job description

Responsibilities

As the Principal Clinical Psychologist Locality Lead you will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership to develop and maintain a high quality, evidence-based psychology service for patients accessing the Crisis and Home Treatment Team. You will work with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, locality leadership team(s) and specialty clinical network to enhance and evaluate the psychological care offer within the Acute Pathway (First Response Service) provided by a multi-professional workforce. Providing training, consultancy, supervision and support to multi-professional staff, teams and managers will be essential, as will taking a strategic and pragmatic approach to service evaluation, audit and research as part of on-going quality improvement. You will also provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention, and input to care and treatment planning and discharge planning for individual patients, working as part of the multidisciplinary team and as an autonomous Clinical Psychologist. Working for our organisation CWP is an innovative and transformational all-ages mental health service provider. There will be opportunities to join internal and external professional and clinical networks, undertake research, and provide training and support to the next generation of psychology and mental health practitioners. There are strong connections to the three main DClinPsy regional training programmes (Liverpool, Lancaster and Manchester). You will join the CWP Senior Psychologists Group, a group that supports leadership, clinical and professional development of Psychologists. Clinical and professional supervision will be provided, and on-going continuing professional development supported. Flexible, part-time and job-sharing requests will be considered favourably. We encourage applications from suitably qualified and experienced people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. Please download a copy of the job description (see 'documents to download' section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role. 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 Trust's 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 Trust's 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 Trust's Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours. An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: [e-mail] or by calling 01244 393100. If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the 'essential' criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer 'YES' to the question: 'Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?' Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes. 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.

All applicants must be HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists with significant, relevant experience as per the job description and person specification.

Core Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• HCPC registration

Desirable Criteria

• Formal qualification in supervision
• BPS chartered status and/or membership of ACPUK., Highly specialist skills in undertaking complex psychological and cognitive/neuropsychological assessment, intervention and evaluation frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills for communicating effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Formally trained and expert in supervising Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of applied psychology and specialised psychological therapies in working with people with complex difficulties (e.g. severe MH problems; personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• Leadership training and/or awareness of different leadership models and systems thinking, Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
• Experience of providing consultation, training, support and supervision/reflective practice to other professionals and non-professionals.
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
• Service development experience
• Involvement in local and/or national academic and/or professional body and other professional activities., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.