Principal Clinical Psychologist - Locality Leads-East Cheshire

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Congleton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Congleton is seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist to lead clinical and professional initiatives within the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. The ideal candidate will be HCPC registered with a focus on psychological assessments and team leadership. The position offers flexible and hybrid working opportunities, aiming to improve psychological care in the acute pathway.

Qualifications

• Significant, relevant experience as per the job description and person specification.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and professional leadership within the CRHTT.
• Lead on embedding a relational and person centred ethos in the team.
• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions.

Education

HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking to recruit a Principal Clinical Psychologist to our CRHTT, based in Congleton in east Cheshire.

This post is part of a wider workforce plan in Acute Psychology provision that demonstrates CWP's commitment to improving the psychological and trauma informed care provided to patients, families, and staff in the acute pathway.

The post is for 0.8 wte, and we are happy to consider flexible and/or hybrid working.

Key Responsibilities

As the Principal Clinical Psychologist Locality Lead you will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership within the CRHTT.

The CRHTT in East Cheshire is an exciting team to work for as it is offers an excellent mix of excellent and well experienced practitioners alongside staff members that have joined the team recently, bringing significant enthusiasm and readiness for psychologically informed care. You will work with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, and the local leadership team to enhance and evaluate the psychological care offer within your team.

We champion relational and person centred ways of working, based on humanity and compassion across the Acute pathway; you will be leading on embedding this ethos in the team.

Providing training, consultancy, supervision and support to the multi-disciplinary team will be essential part of the role.

You will lead on service evaluation, audit and research as part of on-going quality improvements in CRHTT.

You will provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions, and input to care planning and discharge planning.

We have strong connections to the three DClinPsy regional training programmes (Liverpool, Lancaster and Manchester).

Required Qualifications

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

About CWP

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

Benefits & Information

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you'll find something to suit you at CWP.