Principal Practitioner Psychologist – PICU Lead

Pennine Care; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Involvement in improvement and inrese

Health and wellbeing activities

Staff discounts across retail, leisure

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is advertising a permanent 0.9WTE Principal Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, Forensic) to join Walkerwood PICU at Tameside General Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne. This role provides strategic psychological leadership within a 10-bed PICU for men aged 18 and over, delivering specialised assessment and therapy.

The post requires doctoral-level training in clinical psychology and offers a comprehensive pathway within a supportive MDT, including

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling/forensic

Responsibilities

• To provide clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology for the PICU.
• To provide a high quality clinical psychology service to adults presenting with complex mental health problems.
• To provide highly specialised psychological assessment and therapy while also offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to other colleagues and different professional groups.
• To work as part of the wider MDT, bringing a psychological perspective and understanding to presenting distress. This will include to formulation driven care, risk assessments and formulations and contributions within team meetings.
• To support inpatient colleagues through the provision of supervision, reflective practice and post-incident reflective spaces where appropriate.
• To contribute to audit, policy/service development, and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the areas served.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures.
• To provide clinical supervision to individuals and groups of staff working across the inpatient services, including psychology staff.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Clinical psychology service

Assessment and therapy

Risk assessment

Formulation driven care

Supervision

Audit and research

Autonomous practice

Education

Doctoral-level training in clinical psychology/clinical/counselling/forensic

Job description

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is advertising a permanent 0.9WTE Principal Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, Forensic) to join Walkerwood PICU at Tameside General Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne. This role provides strategic psychological leadership within a 10-bed PICU for men aged 18 and over, delivering specialised assessment and therapy.

The post requires doctoral-level training in clinical psychology and offers a comprehensive pathway within a supportive MDT, including