Principal Psychologist - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

Pennine Care NHS FT; Tameside; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service in the UK seeks a skilled Principal Psychologist for the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. This role involves leading psychological assessments and interventions for adults in crisis, providing consultation, and supporting service development. Ideal candidates will be HCPC registered, with a doctorate in clinical psychology and experience in trauma informed care. The organization offers career progression and a supportive work environment fostering high-quality mental health services for the community.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Professional development access

Health and Wellbeing activities

Staff discounts

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in psychological assessment and treatment of adult clients.
• Experience in working with complex mental health issues.
• Ability to provide teaching and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead psychological assessment and treatment for adults in crisis.
• Provide consultation and formulation to the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team.
• Support service development and policy changes.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Trauma informed care

Psychological leadership

Crisis intervention

Education

Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology

Current HCPC registration

Post qualification training in psychological therapies

Training in supervision

Job description

Principal Psychologist - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and highly skilled Principal Psychologist to join our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). You will have a doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology, HCPC registration, and significant experience working with adults with complex mental health difficulties. You should be confident in providing specialist assessment, formulation, and evidence based interventions, and able to offer psychological leadership, consultation, and trauma informed care to colleagues. The ideal candidate will be resilient, adaptable, and committed to delivering high quality, person centred care in acute settings.

This role involves leading the psychological provision within the CRHTT, providing specialist assessment, formulation, and interventions for a clinical caseload, and supporting the development of psychologically informed care across acute and secondary services. You will work closely with the CRHTT multidisciplinary team, managers, and external partners, and contribute to service development, audit, research, and training.

Based within Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, you will be part of a skilled MDT, collaborating with acute and community services. We offer excellent training, career progression, mentoring, and continuous professional development. You'll be empowered to lead, innovate, and shape the future of crisis mental health care in our communities.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical leadership and direction in applied psychology for home treatment team services.

Deliver specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions for adults in crisis.

Offer advice, consultation, and supervision to colleagues and other professionals.

Lead psychologically informed care planning, risk assessment, and trauma informed practice.

Support service development, audit, research, and policy changes.

Provide teaching, training, and supervision to psychologists, trainees, and non-psychologists.

Promote user and carer involvement in care planning, recruitment, and service evaluation.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job responsibilities

Job SummaryTo provide consultation and formulation to staff within the Crisis Resolution HomeTreatment Team (CRHTT).To provide a qualified specialist psychology service for people referred to the CRHTTcare pathway.The post holders will provide specialist assessment, formulation and interventions fora clinical caseload.To provide psychological leadership to the CRHTT care pathway and worksystemically across services (e.g., acute services and secondary care) to develop apsychological understanding and context for other professionals, service users andcarers.To lead the psychological CRHTT provision within borough and support the Trustwide acute pathway when needed, to help ensure equity in provision and service.Operating in an integrated and inclusive style you will work closely with the CRHTTMDTs to support the development of individual care planning, that is underpinned bypsychological formulation and informed by trauma informed care principles.The post holders will propose and implement evidence-based practice, utilisingresearch skills for audit and service developments.The post holder will enhance psychological understanding and skill set through thedelivery of training, supervision and reflective practice. This will include within thecurrent CRHTT team but also making links with local universities and providingplacements for trainee Psychologists.To be an integral part of local and national initiatives to improve care quality. Forexample (but not limited to) inpatient transformation, community transformation carein the community and reducing admissions

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychological assessments, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan development psychology as accredited by the BPS or postgraduate training in Forensic Psychology or Counselling Psychology)
• Current registration as a Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
• Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g., DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc)
• Completion of further post qualification training in supervision

Experience

• Demonstrable post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of adult clients experiencing psychological difficulties.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Demonstratable post-qualification experience of working with complex mental health problems, including distressing psychosis, problems associated with complex relational and emotional needs and severe depression, anxiety and trauma.
• Demonstratable experience of working with people experiencing a suicidal crisis
• Experience of Clinical Leadership
• Experience of audit and service evaluation within psychological therapy services
• Demonstratable experience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts

Knowledge

• Understanding of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies within acute services
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and approaches for adults with complex mental health problems

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention

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.

Team Manager Tameside Home Treatment Team