Senior Psychologist

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Stoke-on-Trent is seeking a Senior Psychologist to provide maternity cover with a focus on young people's psychological care. The role includes collaboration within a multidisciplinary team and requires a post-graduate doctoral qualification in psychology. This position offers agile working options and a salary range of £55,690 to £62,682 per annum pro rata.

Benefits

Agile working options

Comprehensive training and support

Qualifications

• Experience working as a qualified applied psychologist in a designated service.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision and training.
• Proficient in psychological assessments for complex conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments.
• Deliver direct clinical work and team consultation.
• Facilitate decision-making regarding treatment options.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Psychotherapy

Team collaboration

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology

Job description

Go back North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Senior Psychologist

The closing date is 01 October 2025

8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Maternity Cover until 30th August 2026 - 22.5 hours per week

This position is offering the opportunity for Agile Working and working from home options for the right candidate.

Would you like to work creatively to meet the diverse needs of children and young people as part of a dynamic and friendly multidisciplinary team? Are you motivated by innovation and supportive of services that place children and young people at the centre of care? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide maternity cover within the Darwin Centre, a 14-bed general adolescent unit with a \'Good\' CQC rating.

As part of our psychology team, supported by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, you will collaborate with the multidisciplinary team comprising doctors, occupational therapy, dietician, nurses, social workers, family therapists and support staff to provide psychological trauma-informed care for young people.

You will deliver direct clinical work to young people at the Darwin Centre and clinical consultation with the wider multidisciplinary team. Providing teaching and training to staff and supporting post incident team reflection and reflective practice sessions.

Main duties of the job

To be compassionate in meeting the needs of young people, their carers and families.

To provide clinical supervision and training to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team.

To undertake formal research as an integral part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees.

To be proactive in continual service improvement within own area.

To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.

To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.

Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological assessment and care to clients who present in crisis with complex mental health conditions or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world\'s first \'carbon net zero\' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our \'Proud to be Green\' engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

Job responsibilities

Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.

Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client.

Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.

Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological work and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.

Implements the use of highly skilled psychological formulations for individual clients, carers, staff, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.

Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and makes decisions about treatment options.

Provides highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan.

Facilitates decision-making by planning and mapping processes/interventions with members of the team to determine the most appropriate treatment modality or service for clients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.

Experience

• Must have experience of: Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.

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.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum pro rata