Job summary
- Main area
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-CMT-6208202
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Greenfield Centre
- Town
- Stoke on Trent
- Salary
- £50,952 - £68,525 Pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Are you looking to further develop your career within a supportive and innovative service? We are developing our teams and our provision of psychological therapies for those with complex mental health difficulties. As a Trust we are embedding new clinical pathways which puts us in a great position to support team members in pursuing specific areas of interest relevant to community mental health.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Principal Clinical Psychologist to join the Community Mental Health directorate. We would also welcome applicants wishing to be considered for an 8A to 8B preceptorship. Candidates employed on a preceptorship would be supported to develop their competencies over an 18-month period in order to move to the 8b role.
The post will be based at the Greenfields Centre in Tunstall, with opportunity to work across the directorate into clinical pathways of interest. The post offers opportunity to develop skills in leadership, supervision and service development, alongside a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and within an integrated MDT. We work closely with other services within and VCSE partners to ensure that service users’ needs are met in a timely way and to minimise unhelpful gaps between services.
Main duties of the job
There are opportunities to further develop expertise in a range of psychological models as funded via NHSE, e.g. CAT, CBTp/pd, etc. Specialist supervision groups and interest groups in various models (CAT, CFT, EMDR) are also provided. As such, there is excellent support for continuing professional development, additional peer supervision and participation in quality innovations, research, and audit. We have strong links with the local Clinical Psychology Training course at Staffordshire University and host trainees on placement in the team.
We are supportive of flexible working and would welcome applications from those wishing to blend time at the office with remote working.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex and contentious mental health conditions or learning disabilities which include challenging behaviours and possible risk of physical aggression.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, 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 a major part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees.
To be proactive in continual service improvement within own area.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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.
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial 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.
- Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of evidence-based practice relevant to the role
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice.
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
- Charlotte Morris
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Clare Thomas
Team Leader
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