Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

As a member of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team, the post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, including for children who may also have a neurodevelopmental condition. The post-holder will develop and implement psychological therapeutic plans of care with children, young people and their families
based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their difficulties, and will offer specialist therapy in a range of therapeutic modalities.
The post-holder will also provide specialist psychologically informed advice, guidance, supervision and consultation to other professionals, and contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to benefit all clients of the service, potentially impacting across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
The post-holder will provide supervision to some qualified and pre-qualified staff.
The post will include working as part of the duty team on a rota basis, although as the service currently operates with a defined duty team, duty responsibilities are kept to a minimum.
There will be opportunities for the post-holder to take a lead on a
clinical pathway or area of service delivery in line with their experience and interests, and to contribute to service development, which may require use of research skills for audit and policy development

Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work., specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted
A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.
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An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.
If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.
We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).
Other important information
+ We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
+ Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
+ This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
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+ We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
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All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve., We are recruiting to one of our 8a clinical psychology posts within our welcoming and busy CAMHS team. The post is substantive and full-time but we are happy to consider applications for part-time hours. You will be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team where we prioritise supervision and opportunities for professional development. We would want to build on the strengths of the successful applicant in relation to therapeutic modalities and opportunities for service development where possible.
Clinical psychology is well integrated and highly valued both within the Rochdale team and within the CAMHS care hub across Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. We work closely through the care hub Psychological Therapies workstream to share best practice and to continue to develop excellence in our work with children and families, including clinical research.
This post is based with CAMHS at the Birch Hill Hospital site, but clinical
appointments may also be offered at a range of sites across the borough (Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale).

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
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