Job summary
We are looking for a highly experienced and motivated psychologist to support the clinical leadership of our community psychological therapies pathways in Wigan.
In this role, you will provide senior psychology input to the Wigan Community Mental Health Team and offer psychological assessment and therapy to adults across our community services within a therapies hub model. It is expected that around half your time will be dedicated to clinical work.
The post holder will be responsible for clinically leading the service delivery of psychological care pathways for people experiencing psychosis, bipolar disorder, complex trauma, and other common mental health difficulties. This will include supporting the provision of staff supervision, case management, service evaluation, teaching and training for psychological therapists working into the pathway, and the wider MDT.
You will join a psychology service with a wealth of clinical expertise across a range of approaches including CAT, TF-CBT, CBTp, and EMDR. There are opportunities to complete accredited training in several models of therapy via the HEE training programme if this is of need / interest to the successful candidate, alongside further training and opportunities for supervisor development.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be employed by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust to work across, and provide clinical leadership to, the Wigan Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT's) in relation to the provision of all aspects of direct and indirect psychological work.
The post holder will, via a cascade model, provide supervision, and therefore maintain oversight, of the work of more junior psychologists/psychological therapists, including the clinical work of Mental Health Well-being practitioners, based within the Wigan community teams. They will ensure that psychological aspects of CMHT service provision continue to be maintained at the highest possible standards, ensuring people who use the service and their carers/families receive high quality care. The post holder will be expected to supervise trainees on placement with the service.
The postholder will also maintain an overview of and support non-psychology colleagues' psychosocial work of via the provision of co-working opportunities and case formulation, clinical supervision, reflective practice, and practice-based training sessions as needed.
They will regularly offer expert assessment sessions to people with highly complex presenting problems referred by CMHT colleagues and will also provide evidence-based intervention work for the people who use the service and their families. The postholder will work to ensure the development and governance of both direct and indirect psychological offers within the CMHTs.
About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over7000members of staff, who deliver services from more than122locations.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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.
- 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
- Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. CAT, CBT, EMDR,, MBT etc.)
Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
Essential
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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.
- 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
- Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. CAT, CBT, EMDR,, MBT etc.)
Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
Essential
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
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).
