Specialist Clinical & Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Manchester is seeking a Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to provide high-quality psychological care for perinatal issues. The successful candidate will possess a Doctoral level qualification in Psychology, be HCPC registered, and have a background in trauma-focused therapies. This role offers opportunities for leadership development, continuous professional growth, and addressing health inequalities in a supportive team environment. Salary ranges from £55,690 to £62,682 per annum, pro rata.

Benefits

30% additional payment for evenings and Saturdays

60% additional for Sundays and bank holidays

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with HCPC registration.
• Experience of working as a psychologist with moderate-severe mental health problems.
• Experience of applying cognitive-behavioral approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality and evidence-based psychological care.
• Carry a clinical caseload and offer expert consultation.
• Support trauma-informed care and reduce health inequalities.

Skills

Communication skills

Psychological assessment

Consultation skills

Leadership skills

Teamwork

Education

Doctoral qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Training in trauma-focused interventions

Registered with HCPC

Training in perinatal mental health

Job description

Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

An opportunity has come available to join our compassionate, supportive and innovative team, the Perinatal Trauma and Loss Service (PETALS). This post will be providing maternity leave cover for a fixed term of 12 months.

PETALS are supporting the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan and integrate maternity, reproductive health and psychological therapy. PETALS provides therapeutic and psychological support and care to women/birthing people and families who experience significant fear of childbirth (tokophobia) and/or perinatal loss and trauma, directly as a result of their perinatal/neonatal/maternity journey.

We are looking for someone to provide high quality, evidence based psychological care.

As a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (with HCPC registration), you will carry a clinical caseload, as well as offer expert consultation/case discussion, teaching, training and supervision. There will be opportunity to develop skills in leadership. The NHSE Perinatal Mental Health Psychological Therapies Implementation Guidance aims to support the expansion of psychological therapies, therefore the role offers opportunities for continued professional development.

You will be supported by the Principal Clinical Psychologist. There are key opportunities to lead on aspects of service development, which may include supporting trauma informed care and practice and reducing health inequalities, as well as ensuring key performance targets are achieved.

Main duties of the job

You will provide high quality and evidence based psychological care. As a qualified Clinical or Counselling psychologist (with HCPC registration), you will carry a clinical caseload, as well as offer expert consultation/case discussion, teaching, training and supervision. You will be able to develop skills in leadership. There are key opportunities to bring ideas and creativity to a new area of perinatal mental health, leading and supporting others on aspects of service development in a new and developing service. This may include (but aren't exhaustive): codesign and coproduction, supporting trauma informed care and practice and reducing health inequalities, as well as ensuring key performance targets are achieved. The service supports further training and development needed for the role.

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

• Pay Enhancements: 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Professional qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology at Doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• Further post-qualification, post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a 'Clinical or Counselling Psychologist'.
• Training in trauma focused interventions (e.g. CBT, EMDR)
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Training in perinatal mental health

Experience

• Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist, including relevant experience in service area.
• Experience of working with client groups experiencing moderate-severe mental health problems across the life span. This includes maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the possible threat of physical abuse
• Experience of working with trauma and providing trauma-focused psychological therapy.
• Experience of applying cognitive-behavioural approaches.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of providing supervision and training.
• Experience of working in perinatal mental health services.
• Experience of working in a secondary care service (Psychology/CMHT)

Knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS & HCPC.
• Knowledge of policy and legislation in relation to service specialism and of relevant mental health legislation.

Skills & Abilities

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to organise time effectively.
• Ability to use own initiative and to work under supervision where appropriate
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups.
• Skills in supervising others
• Skills in compassionate leadership

Other

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to travel to a range of locations across the GM footprint in a timely and efficient manner.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum pro rata