Job summary
Band 8C - Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Fixed Term Ending 30-Nov-2027
We are looking for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our new service.
Together, we can change lives. Our new service is built on partnership, working hand in hand with children, young people, families, and professionals to provide tailored support for those in the most complex situations. This is your opportunity to join a team that values collaboration, compassion, and creativity, ensuring every young person has the chance to thrive.
What makes this service unique? It brings together a multidisciplinary team, with representation from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent local authorities working alongside health professionals to deliver an enhanced support package for those who need it most. As the first service of its kind locally, and a regionally funded innovation, it represents a bold step forward in integrated care.
If you're experienced in this field of work and are ready to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for team delivery of highly specialist psychological care to the service with highly complex mental health conditions which may include challenging behaviours and possible risk of harm to self or others.
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 lead 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.
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.
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.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership to psychologists and psychological professionals working within the Team to ensure the provision of a high quality psychological services to adolescent inpatients with complex mental health conditions.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for governance of psychological and therapeutic practice within the Service.
To provide professional appraisal and the identification of CPD needs for psychological professions within the Service.
To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of psychologists and therapists working within the Service.
To take the lead for workforce planning in and related recruitment and staff professional development activities within but not limited within the Service.
To contribute to expansion of the workforce through the development of new roles within the psychological professions within the Service.
Responsible for the highly specialist psychological assessment and care-planning of adolescent inpatients with highly complex mental health 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 complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high risks inherent in the client group.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership to psychologists and psychological professionals working within the Team to ensure the provision of a high quality psychological services to adolescent inpatients with complex mental health conditions.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for governance of psychological and therapeutic practice within the Service.
To provide professional appraisal and the identification of CPD needs for psychological professions within the Service.
To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of psychologists and therapists working within the Service.
To take the lead for workforce planning in and related recruitment and staff professional development activities within but not limited within the Service.
To contribute to expansion of the workforce through the development of new roles within the psychological professions within the Service.
Responsible for the highly specialist psychological assessment and care-planning of adolescent inpatients with highly complex mental health 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 complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high risks inherent in the client group.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Must have substantial experience of: Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups including both child and adult, with a range of clinical severity across care settings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Must have substantial experience of: Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups including both child and adult, with a range of clinical severity across 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
