Main area Principal Clinical Psychologist - Group Wide Grade Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 236-SCO-P448-26
Employer Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Northern Care Alliance, Salford Royal Hospital Town Salford Salary £64,455 - £74,896 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2025 23:59
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Band 8b
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the dynamic and thriving Staff Psychology Support Service which supports NCA staff across Salford, Bury, Oldham and Rochdale.
We are looking for a highly motivated Principal Clinical Psychologist who has a strong interest in supporting NHS staff members and teams who are experiencing emotional distress due within their working lives. The successful applicant will be a Senior Clinical Leader helping to provide dynamic, timely, effective, evidence based therapies and team interventions (training, reflective practice, consultation, psychological debriefs). They will have the appropriate experience to work autonomously and flexibly, across the Trust footprint in response to organisational demands. This includes providing specialist psychological support affected by critical incidents or traumatic events at work. The Psychologist will be experienced in providing comprehensive psychological assessment and intervention using multiple models. The focus of this post is individual and systemic interventions. The post holder is expected to be research active and to contribute to the development of systemic practice for the team.
We are looking for a Psychologist with enthusiasm and an appreciation of the challenges and rewards of working within a culturally diverse NHS workforce, who has an interest providing individual therapy for individuals with complex emotional distress as well as systemic practice and community psychology.
Main duties of the job
We are a group of highly committed and supportive clinicians who work across the trust footprint and are supported by an excellent administrative and managerial team within the Department of Neuropsychology. The person will benefit from the supervision structure and peer support of the department and the additional CPD opportunities afforded here.
For this specific post, we are looking for an independent, proactive and creative individual who has a keen interest in staff support intervention, clinical supervision, systemic work, including reflective practice and training and developing services. This post has been developed to help better support NCA staff who are experiencing complex emotional distress and mental health difficulties. A key role of the post is to provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to staff members and teams. We welcome applications from individuals with additional training in systemic practice. Taking a lead in audit, research, service development initiatives and teaching and training will be encouraged and supported.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of working with individuals with common and severe mental health difficulties
Qualifications
* Clin PSY D - Doctorate Qualification in clinical psychology
* Accredited therapist
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychological interventions.
The NCA is proud to serve a diverse population and is committed to delivering inclusive, accessible care. We value individuality and aim to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applications are welcomed from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received, or if an internal redeployee has been identified.
For fixed-term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed-term contracts will be offered to external (non-NHS) applicants.
The NCA does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Read more about this here .
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Colm Gallagher Job title Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address colm.gallagher@nca.nhs.uk Telephone number 0161 206 8484
Additional information
Dr Colm Gallagher is available for informal discussions regarding the post.
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