Psychotherapist

We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist at Greater Manchester Mental Health (Crossgate House, Memory Assessment Team.)

Rated Good in their most recent CQC report, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, (GMMH) provides inpatient and community-based mental health care for Bolton, Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Wigan. The Trust also provides a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services for patients from Greater Manchester and beyond. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city, Greater Manchester has something for everyone.

**Main duties of the job**

The post holder will evaluate a patient's problem using direct observation, interviews, and methods such as psychometric testing. Shared decision-making is necessary for psychological intervention with the client and frequently with their family members and carers.

In order to enhance patients quality of life, you will plan and implement treatments in collaboration with service users. Typically, this happens over the course of several individual, couple, family, or group sessions. Along with providing therapy, you'll teach other supervisory staff, conduct research, and manage teams of clinicians.

You'll receive training to assist people of all ages who are experiencing psychological distress or behavioural issues that interfere with their ability to function normally and feel good.

**About us**

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

**Career Progression** access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

**Work-life Balance** flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

**Opportunity & Access** over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

**Job description**

To be a member of the service team and to contribute to, participate in and adhere to the routines and policies of that service.

To be responsible for the systematic provision of psychological services at a highly specialist level.

To adhere to the organisation of the service particularly with regard to membership of the multidisciplinary teams. Services will be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. Services will include the following:
Highly specialist one-to-one clinical consultations Highly specialist psychological assessment including issues risk Psychological interventions for individuals, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

**Person Specification**
- To have a professional qualification (HCPC registration, valid and in date)
- To have the suitable experience in a mental health setting (CAMHS, eating disorder, drug and alcohol)
- To be able to have excellent time management, organisation skills and maintain professionalism.
- To have the ability to learn and be with others, and offer excellent experience; leading on training, following a PBS model (positive behavioural support)

**Job Types**: Temporary contract, Fixed term contract

**Salary**: £23.52 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person