Highly Specialist Psychologist/Psychotherapist

4 months ago


AshtonunderLyne, United Kingdom Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job overview

The Greater Manchester Resilience Hub (GMRH) is a unique, all age, psychology-led service originally established as a partnership between all the NHS mental health provider trusts in Greater Manchester in response to the Manchester Arena Attack on 22nd May 2017. We have since expanded to develop multiple workstreams, which creates a varied workload

In addition to providing support to all those impacted by the Arena attack (a nationwide service) the GMRH also provide a staff wellbeing service for health and social care staff across GM. The Hub supports partner organisations in responding to major incidents across GM, provides a range of specialist training on trauma-related issues and is increasingly providing consultation to partner organisations who are developing trauma responsive approaches.

Exceptional interpersonal skills, an understanding of trauma-responsive approaches and a willingness to both embrace and promote change is essential for this role. You will have the opportunity to work within a supportive team and make a key contribution to an innovative service which is leading the way nationally in delivering all-age, family focused, psychosocial and trauma responsive care.

This opportunity is a fixed term contract or secondment until the end of March 2024 with the possibility of extension

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description and person specification which specifies the full details of the role

Working for our organisation

At the Hub we strive to support and supervise our team in line with our values and beliefs therefore successful candidates for this post will need to be committed to this style of team working. Given the complex-nature of the work there are a lot of opportunities for support and CPD. The team has regular face-to-face and online team meetings, individual supervisions and line management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification which specifies the full details of the role

Person specification Education/qualifications Essential criteria
  • Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology and registration with the Health Professions Council
  • OR Core professional qualification (eg, RMN, social worker) plus Accredited in NICE approved psychological intervention (eg CBT, EMDR)
  • OR BABCP accredited CBT/therapist with additional training in for example EMDR/DBT
  • Training in the supervision of psychological therapists and/or other professionals within the MDT
Desirable criteria
  • Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience Essential criteria
  • Previous experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist or highly specialist psychotherapist in the NHS
  • Experience of caseload management
  • Experience of working with complex safeguarding of adults and/or children and young people Experience of working with children and/or adults presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings including outpatient, community and in-patient settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
  • Experience of assessing and intervening clinically around child protection issues
  • Experience of representing psychology/psychological therapy within the context of multidisciplinary care
  • Experience of teaching multi-agency professionals including the identification of need and development of training packages
  • Experience of clinical supervision/consultancy with multiagency staf
Desirable criteria
  • Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist or psychological therapist for a minimum of four years (with 2 years at a specialist level).
  • Experience of the application of psychological approaches in different cultural contexts
  • Experience of clinical supervision of professionals
  • Experience of service audit and/or project management within the clinical setting
  • Involvement in Service Development within adult and/or Children’s Services
  • Experience of psychometric and neuropsychological assessments with young people and/or adults
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan, including caseload management
Knowledge Essential criteria
  • Highly specialised knowledge of mental health issues, including trauma
  • Highly specialised knowledge of assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention around mental health
  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for children and/or adults who have experienced trauma
  • Knowledge of children and/or adults with complex needs and neurodiversity
  • Knowledge of safeguarding and familiarity with local and national safeguarding procedures
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised assessment methodologies
  • Specialist training in therapeutic approaches relevant to children and/or adults who have experienced trauma
  • Knowledge of Governmental and Strategic policies and national clinical guidance in relation to children and young people, mental health and CAMHS
  • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology
  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of organisational development and dynamics
  • Knowledge of child development
Skills and abilities Essential criteria
  • Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
  • Ability to work with a range of professionals from a range of agencies
  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric assessment
  • intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team



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