Job summary
- Main area
- Mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 437-7246520
- Employer
- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hindley Town Hall / Crompton St Wigan
- Town
- Cross St Hindley / Crompton St Wigan
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per year
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Wigan Community Mental Health services are going through an exciting period of change in line with Community Transformation. We have an 8b psychology vacancy within the current Living Well team (soon to be Neighbourhood Mental Health Team) but with a view to expanding the psychology provision across all community teams including Specialist CMHT and Older Adult CMHT in the future.
Main duties of the job
Living Well Neighbourhood is an integrated secondary care team, made up of several partner organisations, we have key principles we all share, such as no hierarchy, no wrong door, trauma informed, strengths-based working, lived experience at the heart of the model and community engagement.
The post holder will be responsible for the promotion and management of a high- quality psychology provision.
The post holder will be an innovative and agile strategic leader who is proficient in working within and leading multi-disciplinary teams and with other partnerships. The post holder will be responsible for the development and management of a team of psychological therapists from a range of modalities to support Living Well Neighbourhood diverse staff teams through supervision, consultation, joint assessment, group work and staff training and will be future planning and evaluating need and creatively using the resource to ensure the psychological provision within Living Well meets the need.
The Post holder will create a strategic vision in partnership with VCSFE organisations and GMMH for an integrated psychological provision that will continue to support the needs of the Living Well Neighbourhood staff and a population that are ever changing therefore responsive and flexibility are key. The Living Well Neighbourhood population are often a cohort of people who are often perceived as not suitable, too complicated for the current structures or fall though the gaps.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements:
|
Band |
Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am |
All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight) |
|
1 |
Time plus 47% |
Time plus 94% |
|
2 |
Time plus 41% |
Time plus 83% |
|
3 |
Time plus 35% |
Time plus 69% |
|
4 – 9 |
Time plus 30% |
Time plus 60% |
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
- Genie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), and Current registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, OR Alternative core health profession qualification (i.e., nursing, social work, or occupational therapy) AND post graduate training in a NICE recommended talking therapy (i.e., minimum of a postgraduate diploma in cognitive therapy from an accredited course), alongside appropriate current professional registration. OR Core training as an accredited psychological therapist in a NICE recommended talking therapy e.g., accredited CBT therapist, accredited CAT therapist. FOR ALL APPLICANTS Post qualification training and accreditation in or eligibility and willingness to work towards accreditation in (where available) one of the following approaches CBT-P, EMDR, CAT, MBT, BFT. Completion of relevant modules of Accredited Doctoral Clinical Psychology Course: Introduction to Supervision Courses (approx. 30 hours) or equivalent, or professional equivalent e.g. CAT supervisor training.
Desirable criteria
- Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. CAT, CBT, EMDR,, MBT etc.).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable significant post-qualification experience of: specialist assessment and treatment of complex and often co-occurring mental health problems in working age adults in a secondary care setting. Experience of developing psychological formulations to inform care for service users and teams involved in multiple systems of care i.e., systemic formulation of complex need. Demonstrable substantial experience of working and leading within complex care systems. Demonstrable post-qualification experience of working with complex health problems, including problems associated with complex relational and emotional needs, and severe depression, anxiety, co-morbid substance misuse and trauma. Demonstrable experience of working with people experiencing a suicidal and/or safeguarding crisis. Demonstrable experience of working within adult multidisciplinary/agency mental health teams. Demonstrable experience of clinical leadership within a previous role. Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision to psychologists, psychological therapists or other core health professions and non-therapists. Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/ training upon clinical interventions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit and service evaluation within psychological therapy services Experience of applying within a multi-cultural framework Research experience within an area relevant to work. Ability to demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training. Experience of leading and/or developing teams. Demonstrable experience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts. Demonstrable experience of managing demand for psychological services via a stepped-care framework.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies within inpatient services. Evidence of post-qualification CPD as recommended and/or accredited by the BPS, or other professional body. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, enabling the communication of complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies. Up to date knowledge of the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health problems, and of psychological approaches to recovery. Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software
Desirable criteria
- Completion of specialist therapy courses.
skills & abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention. Skills in providing psychological consultation to other professional and non-professional groups Well developed, effective communication skills, both orally and in writing, enabling complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to be shared with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies. Ability to prioritise work, operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern that requires regular revision of plans. Ability to sit in constrained position for client therapy, testing and for computer work. Ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for client assessment and formulation, individual therapy sessions, interviews Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information. Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Desirable criteria
- 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 demonstrate an area of special interest/skill in therapeutic intervention Ability to move equipment (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Peter Dargan
- Job title
- Consultant Psychologist
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