Consultant Clinical Psychologist

**Consultant Clinical Psychologist - CAMHS**:
**NHS AfC: Band 8c**:
**Main area**
- Clinical Psychology
- **Grade**
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1133**Site**
- bolitho House
- **Town**
- Penzance
- **Salary**
- £65,664 - £75,874 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 skilled and innovative Consultant Psychologists in the next phase of our recruitment programme.

The Trust is committed to leadership development in the psychological professions to lead and drive forward developments in psychological services. We are in the process of a Transformation programme in adult mental health services, and building on our existing transformation work in CAMHS, which requires increasing access to high quality psychological interventions across the county. We are committed to developing satisfying roles and careers for all our staff and in working with you to develop our services to meet the needs of people in Cornwall.

Our psychology leadership team currently consists of a Chief Psychological Professions Officer (CPPO) as well as three Heads of Psychological Professions - CAMHS, Adult Community Mental Health Services and Adult Mental Health Inpatient and Crisis Services. We are building this team by developing further lead Consultant Psychologist posts in each service line to support our service development plans.

Interested parties should be aware that, whilst working patterns will be flexible and include some remote working, there will be a requirement for the successful applicants to be physically based in Cornwall bases for at least some of the week.

**Main duties of the job**:
We are looking for a highly experienced and specialist Clinical Psychologist with a strong CAMHS Background, who will be responsible for providing clinical leadership and clinical supervision for Psychology staff in Community CAMHS.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about developing mental health services for children and adolescents. We are looking for someone who has highly specialist skills and knowledge to offer assessment, intervention and consultation to young people with complex mental health needs and who will inspire and support others at all stages of their training and careers.

We are a THRIVE implementation site and hope the applicant would contribute to the further development of evidence based, needs led, service's in partnership with service users and are partner agencies.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Psychologist work to combine clinical work with dedicated time for leadership,