Band 7 / 8a Development post for Practitioner Psychologist

The Trust is committed to supporting career progression for Practitioner Psychologists and the successful candidate will be supported with extensive professional and clinical supervision frameworks and opportunities to develop their specialist clinical and professional skills, through an extensive and well-resourced CPD structure. For the qualified 8A candidate supervision training is essential. We are passionate about developing a diverse and flexibly working workforce and we support hybrid working. To provide a highly specialist psychology service to clients with complex psychological and mental health presentations. To provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions as well as providing consultation and advice on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To supervise trainees, assistant psychologists and other qualified psychological practitioners as agreed. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. To regularly engage with clinical supervision and CPD activities, according to professional registrationrequirements.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries. Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall. We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you. CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role. We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

• 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 We are really excited to advertise this development post for a passionate and enthusiastic , HCPC registered, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. We have a small, friendly Psychology team comprising of a Principle Clinical Psychologist, a highly specialist Clinical psychologist, a CBT therapist and 2 Assistant Psychologists. We are committed to trauma informed care, and we practice from a range of models such as psychodynamic, schema informed therapy, CBT, DBT. We adjust all our work to meet the needs of neurodivergent people. We have very close links with our local Clinical Psychology Doctoral courses, and we routinely offer Adult and specialist placements to trainee Clinical Psychologists.