Lead Clinical Psychologist

2 months ago


Bolton, Bolton, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Lead Clinical Psychologist to join our team at Greater Manchester Mental Health. As a key member of our clinical leadership team, you will be responsible for providing clinical leadership to our inpatient psychology team and delivering a high-quality psychological service to our adult inpatient services.

Main Responsibilities
  • Provide clinical leadership to the inpatient psychology team and develop psychological formulations in collaboration with clinical teams.
  • Conduct complex assessments and provide short-term therapeutic interventions to patients.
  • Develop and deliver training programs for non-psychology staff and provide supervision and line management to junior psychology staff.
  • Work with senior managers to develop psychologically informed models of care and represent the service at a senior level.
  • Develop and maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
Requirements
  • Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS Registered Clinical Psychologist or Practitioner Psychologist equivalent with the HCPC.
  • Completion of further post-qualification training within psychological therapies (CAT, DBT, CFT, MBT, etc.).
  • Substantial post-qualification experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the lifespan and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings.
  • Experience of working as a practitioner psychologist demonstrating competencies relevant to the position required for Band 8b.
  • Experience of providing supervision and training to psychologists, psychological therapists, or other core health professions.
  • Experience of clinical leadership or heading a service and representing a service at a senior level.
  • Demonstrable post-qualification experience of working with complex health problems, including distressing psychosis, problems associated with complex relational and emotional needs, and severe depression, anxiety, and trauma.
  • Experience in risk assessment, formulation, and management and working with people experiencing a suicidal crisis.
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
  • Substantial experience of working within a multidisciplinary team in an area relevant to adult acute inpatient services.
  • Experience of developing team formulations for clients with high levels of complexity and risk to support reflective practice and care planning.
Desirable Criteria
  • Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Skills and Knowledge
  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
  • Ability to provide rapid psychological assessment and brief psychological interventions, especially in the management of risk.
  • Ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
  • Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals.
  • Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
  • Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior.
  • Ability to demonstrate GMMH Trust values within the workplace.


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