Main area: Principal Clinical Psychologist Mother and Baby Unit, Grade Band 8b, Contract: Permanent, Hours: Part-time - 30 hours per week, Job ref: 373-SMH2470.
Employer: Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Employer type: NHS, Site: Seren Lodge Mother and Baby Unit, Town: Chester, Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 per annum pro rata, Salary period: Yearly, Closing: 21/10/2025 23:59.
Job Overview
Seren Lodge Mother and Baby Unit seeks a Band 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our newly formed team. The post holder will work on a Mother and Baby Unit, a specialist provision for women with mental health illness during pregnancy and/or in the year after their baby is born.
The post is part-time, 30 hours per week.
Main Duties
* Lead on the delivery of specialist clinical psychology services to patients on the Mother and Baby Unit.
* Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy/treatment and interventions.
* Offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to multidisciplinary colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
* Provide training, supervision, and support to multidisciplinary colleagues.
* Supervise trainees, assistants, and other qualified psychological practitioners as agreed.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the Mother and Baby Unit.
* Utilize research skills for audit, policy, and service development, and research.
* Propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.
Working for Our Organisation
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care.
CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
* HCPC registration.
* Additional psychotherapy qualification relevant to working with adults with complex psychological and mental health difficulties.
* Post-graduate diploma in clinical neuropsychology.
Knowledge and Expertise
* Knowledge of and skills in working with people presenting with long-standing and complex psychological and mental health difficulties.
* Knowledge of and skills in conducting complex psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Skills in completing neuropsychological and psychometric assessments, interpreting and reporting the results, and communicating this complex information sensitively and clearly.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and/or clinically sensitive information to clients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS.
* Evidence of continual professional development.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
* Evidence of supervisor training/qualification.
* Experience of supervising Assistant Psychologists, other psychological practitioners, and/or MDT colleagues in psychological approaches.
* Experience of research, audit/service evaluation.
* Ability to provide psychological knowledge creatively in developing new initiatives.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the population.
* Formal leadership/management training.
Experience
* Experience of working as a clinical psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied complex, psychological, and mental health difficulties.
* Experience of working within uni and multi-disciplinary teams.
* Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients.
* Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care.
* Experience of providing teaching and training.
* Experience of liaison with other health professionals.
* Evidence of contributing to policy and service development.
* Experience of managing others.
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