Main area Mental Health Grade Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 6 months (TBC) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working.) Job ref 437-7025904
Employer Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site wigan CAMHS Town WIGAN Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/09/2025 23:59
Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and their families?
Wigan Children’s Services and GMMH have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Band8a Clinical Psychologist WTE to support our evidence based, trauma informed service across Wigan.
You will be part of Wigans ATOM service, we support children who are on a trajectory of becoming cared for, returning home to family/family based care, Living in foster placements with therapeutic support
You will be based across a Residential - Outreach Service and a Multi-agency Adolescent Safeguarding Team.
You will join a growing team of community and specialist CAMHS Clinical Psychologists, including Consultant Clinical Psychologists, newly qualified/ experienced Clinical Psychologists/Assistant Psychologists.
The CAMHS services have a proven track record of great relationship with local training courses and successful placements for trainees. There are multiple opportunities for ongoing professional and personal development.
Are you an experienced practitioner that is passionate about improving services for Children experiencing adversity who can support a team or individuals to work within a formulation, offer regular consultation and deliver training.
There is an opportunity to work directly with CYP and their families, including parents and carers. We work within a trauma informed and trusted relationships approach, some models include DDP, Attachment focused interventions and The Your Choice Model.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be based ATOM and REACH services and will be expected to provide a highly specialist Psychology service to children and young people, their families. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and therapeutic intervention for children and young people at risk of placement breakdown and those in residential care returning to families or foster care.
The psychologist will collaboratively develop an attachment informed and trauma aware psychological formulation with the CYP and everyone involved in their care, will link with other professionals and agencies in the wider system to ensure integrated trauma informed care provision across health, social care, education services to optimise the outcomes for young people and their families.
The post holder will be expected to work closely and constructively with the Senior Management Team within the CAMHS group. The post holder will be supported by contributing and accessing the skills and experience of a wider diverse Multi-Disciplinary Team across services.
The post holder will be expected to support Trainee Psychologist placements.
The post holder would also be expected to undertake service development projects as agreed with the other clinical and management leads.
The post is open to applied psychologists registered with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000members of staff, who deliver services from more than122locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached detailed job description and person specification:
* Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
* 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
* Professional qualification achieved grade
* mental heath experience years experience
* Experience of working with Children therapeutically
Important Information about working for GMMH:
All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, for further information on the checks required please visit the NHS Employers website www.nhsemployers.org
The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
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Sponsorship
We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – clickhere .
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Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment. Please contact our Recruitment Team for more information.
**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**
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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.
Consultant Clinical Psychologist -Clinical Lead
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