Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 437-6938465
- Employer
- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Langworthy Cornerstone
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/12/2025
Employer heading
Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist / Psychological Therapist
8a
Job overview
Expected interview date: Friday 12th December
Job overview
We are excited to invite applications for the role of Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Senior Psychological Therapist to join our dynamic and innovative team at Salford Living Well. As a community mental health service delivered in partnership with GMMH, Mind in Salford, Six Degrees, Wellbeing Matters, and START, we emphasise collaboration with service users and local communities.
We are seeking an experienced psychologist or therapist with previous experience of working with moderate to severe mental health challenges within a multidisciplinary team environment.
The successful candidate will collaborate with a diverse range of psychological practitioners, including a principal clinical psychologist, psychodynamic therapists, a trainee CAT therapist, CERN practitioner and mental health wellbeing practitioners (MHWPs). Our broader team includes professionals from various backgrounds such as recovery workers, peer support workers (experts by experience), occupational therapists, social workers, nurses, pharmacists, doctors, and psychiatrists. Together, we aim to provide holistic support with a strong focus on both psychological and social wellbeing.
At Salford Living Well, co-production and trauma-informed practices are at the core of everything we do.
Main duties of the job
Main duties
This role offers a dynamic and rewarding experience, encompassing a variety of responsibilities including clinical work, staff support and supervision, training, and service development. The post holder will play a crucial role in ensuring Salford Living Well fosters a psychologically healthy environment for both service users and staff.
Clinical duties will involve conducting psychological assessments, developing formulations, and delivering psychological interventions. Additionally, the post holder will supervise members of the psychology team, provide support to the broader team, and play an active role in shaping our psychological services.
The emphasis on continuous innovation makes Living Well an attractive and exciting service to be a part of, rich with opportunity to contribute to service development.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 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
Employee benefits
- 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
- fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level (or equivalent) qualification in Clinical Psychology Or Equivalent core professional qualification in another health profession and demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development and post qualification training in psychological therapy, with a minimum of a PG dip in Cognitive Therapy from a certified course. Eligible to register with the HCPC, or in the case of psychological therapist’s, current accreditation with the BABCP, and appropriate professional body.
- Completion of supervisors training or eligible and plan to complete once in post e.g. completion of relevant modules of Accredited Doctoral Clinical Psychology Course: Introduction to Supervision Courses (approx. 30 hours) and/or successful supported supervision of 1 or more trainees/students
- Current registration with the HCPC, or in the case of psychological therapists, current accreditation with the BABCP/appropriate professional body.
Desirable criteria
- Additional postgraduate advanced training in one or more relevant therapy approaches e.g. Cognitive Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focussed Therapy, Cognitive Analytical Therapy.
- Qualification in leadership or management.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrative experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist / psychological therapist with adults with severe and potentially enduring mental health problems and specifically people with distressing psychosis and people with complex relational and emotional needs (i.e. people who are frequently given a diagnosis of personality disorder/s).
- Demonstrative post-qualification experience of working with people with complex health problems, including problems associated with complex emotional and relational needs, psychosis, severe depression, anxiety, co-morbid substance misuse, and complex trauma.
- Demonstrative experience of applying psychological theory to clinical practice in relation to NICE supported therapeutic modalities e.g. CBT, CAT, EMDR
- Demonstrable experience of working within and contributing to multi-disciplinary settings/teams and or Integrated Multi agency Teams
- Demonstrable experience of working within and contributing to multi-disciplinary settings/teams.
- Demonstrable experience of working with people experiencing a suicidal crisis.
- Demonstrable experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care.
- Experience of contributing to the supervision of psychology trainee(s) and/or more junior psychology staff and other core health professionals
- Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/training, and consultancy to other health professionals.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within secondary care mental health services.
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural and diverse framework
- Demonstrable experience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts, especially with the use of interpreters.
- Research experience within an area relevant to work within an adult mental health service.
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training
- Experience of being in a leadership role.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of a trauma informed approach to distress and the value and purpose of therapeutic relationships as a tool for intervention
- Up to date knowledge of the needs of adults with complex and potentially enduring mental health problems, such as complex relational needs; complex trauma, psychosis.
- Current best practice with regards to Risk Assessment & Management
- Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies within community services.
- Evidence of post-qualification CPD: e.g. completion of courses in CAT, EMDR, CBT, psychodynamic or equivalent therapies for complex cases
- Experience of the application of psychological theories within different cultural contexts
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- 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 cope in, and deal with highly distressing emotional circumstances
- Ability to reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately
- High level ability to provide and promote appropriate support to staff
- Ability to plan and prioritise own workload with a willingness to be flexible in managing own time to respond to service needs
- 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 consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- 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 here there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression
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
- Experience of service development projects, both planning and implementation
Other Requirements
Essential 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 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 in a timely and efficient manner.
Desirable criteria
- There is a frequent requirement to travel mainly within the Salford area and an occasional requirement to travel across the wider footprint of the Trust to attend meetings and events relevant to the role. Therefore car driver required (except where a supported driver arrangement can be provided under the Disability Discrimination Act)
- Ability to work towards goals agreed at Individual Appraisal
- Ability to work to professional guidelines
- Able to work in UK
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
- Dr Sophie Coleman
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 271 0042
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