Job summary
We are really excited to advertise this permanent, 0.8WTE (4 days), Consultant Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, Forensic) post to lead Secondary Care Psychology Services.
We are looking for a highly skilled and compassionate individual to join us in Pennine Care NHS foundation trust Secondary Care Psychology Services.
There are opportunities for the new post holder to shape this role and further develop the clinical delivery model across secondary care psychology services, to embed the principles of trauma informed care and support and expand the Psychological practitioners working across the pathway, in line with the Psychological professions workforce plan.
The post holder will support and be part of delivering the ambitions for Community Mental Health Transformation and the Community Mental Health Framework and other national directives to ensure our secondary care services are performing well, evolving, sustainable and meet presenting need within local communities.
There are five secondary care Psychology services across the Pennine Care footprint, one in each borough: Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR), Bury, Oldham, Tameside & Glossop and Stockport.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job include:
- The Consultant Practitioner Psychologist will work closely with the secondary care psychological therapy service leads, senior managers, clinical leads for other care pathways and the wider system to provide high quality, safe and effective care for service users. This will include providing supervision and leadership to individuals within the secondary care pathway.
- A key role for the post holder is to embed the principles of trauma informed care, supporting the developing understanding about such approaches across staff teams, our processes and care delivered.
- The post holder will support and be part of delivering the ambitions for Community Mental Health Transformation and the Community Mental Health Framework for adults and older adults, and other national directives to ensure our secondary care services are performing well and are sustainable.
- The post holder will support the adoption and embedding of new psychological practitioner roles.
- The post holder will be required to further develop and lead the clinical delivery model across secondary care psychology services to ensure services transform, evolve and meet presenting need within local communities. It will be important that this offer is equitable across the footprint in our work to reduce health inequalities.
- The post holder will provide expert psychological assessments, formulations and interventions and be skilled in a range of therapeutic modalities.
About us
Why Pennine Care Secondary Care Psychological Therapy Services?
We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership. Our staff survey results support this:
In the latest National Staff Survey (2022) Pennine Care was the highest mental health and learning disability trust in the North West for being 'recommended as a place to work'. We were also the most improvedmental health and learning disability trust across the country as a good place to work.
We support staff to work flexibly and recognise and respect the roles our colleagues hold outside of their working hours. This focus helps us to retain staff and ensure people are happy at work.
Equality, diversity and inclusionare at the top of our agenda.We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone's value should be recognised and respected.
You will be joining a peer network of other Practitioner Psychologists across the trust. You will have opportunities to link with Psychology colleagues, through special interest groups, the psychological therapies leadership group and psychology forums.
Pennine Care have recently invested in the Psychological leadership structure and you will be supported by the Associate Network Director for Psychological Therapies and the Chief Psychological Professions Officer.
We are committed to staff development and have an extensive psychological therapies training programme.
Our trust values are:
Kindness
Fairness
Ingenuity
Determination
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed overview of the roles job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and personal specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed overview of the roles job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and personal specification.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral / Masters' Degree or equivalent experience/qualification, plus further specialist training research or study, conferring advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within a specialist field of psychological therapy and across a number of areas (such as clinical, research and development, personnel finance)
- Additional further training and qualifications in a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT, CAT, psycho-analytic therapies) and in the use of specific psychometric and/or neuro-psychological assessment tools.
- Membership of the HCPC
Desirable
- Additional Accreditation / membership of an appropriate psychological therapy professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Undergraduate and post graduate research experience.
- Substantial post-qualification experience as a psychological therapist within the NHS
- Substantial experience working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of settings
- Experience working within / and or managing multi-disciplinary services
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the application of multi-theoretical psychological assessment and intervention and evaluation with a range of common, acute and complex mental health needs
- Extensive Professional / NHS management experience
- Contribute to the Strategic planning, development and commissioning of psychological services within and across organisations.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychological services in local policy forums
- Experience in developing research and development programmes within psychological therapy services
- Experience in teaching and training and qualified psychological therapist and of non-psychology staff.
- Experience of influence at strategic levels within and outside the organisation.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts.
Knowledge
Essential
- High level ability to work and communicate effectively at both a written and oral level, complex, highly technical and highly sensitive and contentious information to clients, their families and carers, and the full range of lay and professional persons both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work and communicate effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical, managerial and policy information, in order to develop and select appropriate and effective options for intervention or change.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- High level skills in clinical and professional supervision
- Keyboard skills and skills in using word-processing, e mail and internet software.
- Ability to work independently on a day to day basis and use own initiative.
- Ability to work towards agreed goals, reviewed regularly in management supervision.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the HCPC
- Knowledge of contemporary legislation relating to the delivery of mental health and psychological services and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
- Knowledge of professional issues in psychology and psychological therapies.
- Knowledge and experience of the application of clinical governance and risk management policies and procedures for the maintenance and improvement of psychological services.
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Knowledge of models and strategies of change management and leadership.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis.
- Familiarity with computing technology including spread sheets and databases
- Knowledge of appropriate statistical software packages.
- CPD as relevant to maintain accreditation with other appropriate professional body
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Commitment to quality improvement in psychological services through multi-professional evaluation and audit of psychological services
- Ability to engage a range of professional and non-professional groups in co-operative working
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Ability to sit in constrained position for client therapy and for computer work
- Ability to manage frequent periods of prolonged concentration in client sessions, meetings and during computing tasks.
- Ability to work to professional guidelines
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral / Masters' Degree or equivalent experience/qualification, plus further specialist training research or study, conferring advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within a specialist field of psychological therapy and across a number of areas (such as clinical, research and development, personnel finance)
- Additional further training and qualifications in a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT, CAT, psycho-analytic therapies) and in the use of specific psychometric and/or neuro-psychological assessment tools.
- Membership of the HCPC
Desirable
- Additional Accreditation / membership of an appropriate psychological therapy professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Undergraduate and post graduate research experience.
- Substantial post-qualification experience as a psychological therapist within the NHS
- Substantial experience working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of settings
- Experience working within / and or managing multi-disciplinary services
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the application of multi-theoretical psychological assessment and intervention and evaluation with a range of common, acute and complex mental health needs
- Extensive Professional / NHS management experience
- Contribute to the Strategic planning, development and commissioning of psychological services within and across organisations.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychological services in local policy forums
- Experience in developing research and development programmes within psychological therapy services
- Experience in teaching and training and qualified psychological therapist and of non-psychology staff.
- Experience of influence at strategic levels within and outside the organisation.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts.
Knowledge
Essential
- High level ability to work and communicate effectively at both a written and oral level, complex, highly technical and highly sensitive and contentious information to clients, their families and carers, and the full range of lay and professional persons both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work and communicate effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical, managerial and policy information, in order to develop and select appropriate and effective options for intervention or change.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- High level skills in clinical and professional supervision
- Keyboard skills and skills in using word-processing, e mail and internet software.
- Ability to work independently on a day to day basis and use own initiative.
- Ability to work towards agreed goals, reviewed regularly in management supervision.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the HCPC
- Knowledge of contemporary legislation relating to the delivery of mental health and psychological services and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
- Knowledge of professional issues in psychology and psychological therapies.
- Knowledge and experience of the application of clinical governance and risk management policies and procedures for the maintenance and improvement of psychological services.
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Knowledge of models and strategies of change management and leadership.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis.
- Familiarity with computing technology including spread sheets and databases
- Knowledge of appropriate statistical software packages.
- CPD as relevant to maintain accreditation with other appropriate professional body
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Commitment to quality improvement in psychological services through multi-professional evaluation and audit of psychological services
- Ability to engage a range of professional and non-professional groups in co-operative working
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Ability to sit in constrained position for client therapy and for computer work
- Ability to manage frequent periods of prolonged concentration in client sessions, meetings and during computing tasks.
- Ability to work to professional guidelines
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
