Dopmh Consultant Practitioner Psychologist Band 8c

**DOPMH Consultant Practitioner Psychologist Band 8c**:
**NHS AfC: Band 8c**:
**Main area**
- DOPMH Consultant Practitioner Psychologist
- **Grade**
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1227**Site**
- Bodmin Hospital
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £67,064 - £77,274 per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
Due to significant investment in psychological professions and psychological services in CFT, we are looking for a skilled and innovative person, to fulfil the role of Consultant Psychologist in the next phase of our recruitment programme for Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health services.

The Trust is committed to leadership development in the psychological professions to drive forward developments in psychological services. We are in the process of a transformation programme across the organisation to increase access to high quality psychological interventions. We are committed to developing satisfying roles for all our staff and in working with you to develop our services to meet the needs of people in Cornwall.

**Main duties of the job**:
We have recently appointed heads of profession for adult mental health, inpatient and crisis services, and children’s services. We are now looking to develop our dementia and older peoples’ mental health and learning disability services. As Consultant Psychologist for Dementia and Older Peoples’ Mental Health Services you will support our operational leads to develop outstanding psychology services.

You will join a dynamic team of psychological professionals including 3x8b Lead Principal Psychologists (leading on Memory Assessment, Behaviour that Challenges, and Psychological Therapy pathways), 3x8a Principal Psychologists, 2x Assistant Psychologists, a CAT therapist, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and Psychology Undergraduate Interns.

We are striving to be an innovative and dynamic organisation. We have close links with both Plymouth and Exeter Universities, and across the southwest via the Psychological Professions Network and HEE/NHSE workstreams. We are training our 4th cohort of Clinical Associate Psychologists (CAPs) and we are developing new roles such as Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWP). We are developing MPAC (Multi-Professional Approved Clinician) training and roles across our services and welcome innovations in working which result in good outcomes for our population. We will support research interests and opportunities for professional development and training according to individual and service needs.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Sci