Senior Clinical Psychologist

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

The closing date is 26 March 2025

Job summary

The Moorland CMHT are looking to recruit a Band 8a Senior Clinical Psychologist for 15 hours per week for a fixed term period of 12 months to cover maternity leave.

The successful candidate will be expected:

To undertake formal research as an integral part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees.
To be proactive in 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.

Main duties of the job

Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex 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 risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.

Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.

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. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

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.

Date posted

26 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

232-CMT-6979174

Job locations

The Ashcombe Centre

Stoke on Trent

ST13 7ED

Job description

Job responsibilities

Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

The post holder may be required to undertake duties not specified in the job description, but which are commensurate with the role and/or band as required by service need.

The post holder may be required to work in locations other than those specified in the job description as required by service need.

The post holder may be required to work flexible hours as required by service need.

There may be a requirement to change the job description in light of developing service needs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

The post holder may be required to undertake duties not specified in the job description, but which are commensurate with the role and/or band as required by service need.

The post holder may be required to work in locations other than those specified in the job description as required by service need.

The post holder may be required to work flexible hours as required by service need.

There may be a requirement to change the job description in light of developing service needs.

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.
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

Essential

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 a range of care settings.
Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.

Knowledge

Essential

Doctoral level knowledge of Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
Risk assessment and risk management

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.
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

Essential

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 a range of care settings.
Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.

Knowledge

Essential

Doctoral level knowledge of Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
Risk assessment and risk management

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.