Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Older Adult Acute Pathway
Job Description
Job summary
**We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000**
The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.
1.0 FTE in East/Central Cheshire locality
This is an exciting opportunity to be the strategic and professional lead for Older People Psychology provision within Acute Inpatient Services, with additional professional leadership responsibility for Community Older People Psychology, in East Cheshire. This brand new 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist Locality Lead post for older people demonstrates CWP's commitment to improving the psychological and trauma informed care provided to patients, families and staff in the acute services pathway. This post is part of the first phase of creating an established and sustainableTrust-wide Psychology workforce within the acute pathway for older people and working age adults. In recognition of this being a new development, we are offering this post at 8c with the option of it being an 8b/c development post. You would be supported to develop the service while gaining 8c level competencies and experience with an individual development and support plan.
Main duties of the job
As the Consultant Clinical Psychologist Lead you will be responsible for providing clinical, professional and strategic leadership in developing and maintaining systematic, high quality and comprehensive psychology services for older people within the acute pathway, and for professional and clinical leadership for the community Older People Psychology service in a locality. There will also be professional responsibility for locality Mental Health Liaison Psychology. You will be based in an inpatient service and work with the locality senior leadership team(s) and specialty clinical network to enhance and evaluate the psychological care offer for older people across acute inpatient wards, respite and urgent care services provided by the multi-professional workforce and in overall service planning and transformation across the locality and specialty. Providing training, consultancy, supervision and support to multi-professional staff, teams and managers will be essential, as will taking a strategic and pragmatic approach to service evaluation, audit and research as partof on-going quality improvement. You will also provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention, and input to care and treatment planning and discharge planning for individual patients, working as part of the multidisciplinary team and as an autonomous specialist Consultant.
About us
CWP is an innovative and transformational all-ages mental health service provider. There will be opportunities to join internal and external professional and clinical networks, undertake research, and provide training and support to the next generation of psychology and mental health practitioners. There are strong connections to the three main DClinPsy regional training programmes (Liverpool, Lancaster andManchester). You will join the CWP Consultant Psychologists and Consultant Psychotherapists Group, a newly established, dynamic group with responsibility for developing and ensuring effective governance of psychological service provision across CWP. Clinical and professional supervision will be provided, and on-going continuing professional development supported.
A relocation package is available for those meeting criteria. Flexible, part-time and jobsharing requests will be considered favourably. We encourage applications from suitably qualified and experienced people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.
All applicants must be HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists with significant, relevant experience as per the job description and person specification.
Job responsibilities
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Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment , which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website https://www.cwp.nhs.uk/completing-application-guidance. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email [email protected] or by calling 01244 393100.
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Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
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The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
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Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS - including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registered with the HCPC.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one of more additional relevant specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Leadership and/or management qualification.
- Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN).
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment (including use of cognitive/neuropsychological tests, when appropriate), formulation, intervention and evaluation frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological approaches relevant to people across the full spectrum of psychological problems. Demonstrates further advanced / specialist knowledge and skills gained through additional postdoctoral training, and / or CPD and supervised practice
- Knowledge of relevant NHS structures, processes and policies. Capacity to interpret & communicate complex policies to others, particularly in respect of implications for meeting psychological components of care. Able to effectively implement same and use as basis for strategic planning across one or more organisations.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Undertaken supervision training
Desirable
- Familiarity with theory & practice of management & organisational change and principles of leadership.
- Formal leadership and/or management training.
- Approved Clinician training
