Overview
We are delighted to offer an outstanding opportunity for a dynamic and compassionate Clinical Psychologist/Practitioner Psychologist to step into a newly established Band 8b Clinical Lead role within our Salford Early Intervention in Psychosis service (EIP) and the Early Detection and Intervention Team (EDIT).
The post holder will provide direct clinical work, while also supporting all aspects of psychological and psychosocial intervention work carried within the EI and EDIT teams, via supervision, consultation and training and co-working opportunities. The post holder will promote a normalising, trauma-informed, continuum-based approach to understanding psychosis, e.g., by regularly contributing to MDT discussions, supervision and training.
Main duties / Responsibilities
This is an opportunity to lead psychological care provision in Salford for people identified as being at risk of developing first episode psychosis, and those experiencing first episode psychosis. The Salford EDIT and EI teams are multidisciplinary with a strong culture of facilitating personal recovery via psychological and psychosocial interventions.
The post-holder will lead on the development and delivery of psychological interventions, ensuring high-quality evidence-based and trauma-informed practice across the pathway. They will benefit from strong peer support within a highly skilled network of psychologists across GMMH and have access to CPD opportunities, reflective practice, and research opportunities.
We are looking for: An HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist / Practitioner psychologist with substantial post-qualification experience in adult mental health and especially psychosis, with extensive experience working within multidisciplinary NHS teams, with expertise in CBT for psychosis and Family Interventions, with considerable supervision and leadership experience.
If you are a passionate clinician and wish to utilise the full range of your knowledge and skills to aid personal recoveries of people within an EDIT and EI service context, we’d very much like to hear from you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Essential: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
* Desirable: Additional post-qualification qualifications - CBTp
Experience
* Essential: Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical psychologist with people with distressing psychosis as part of an NHS multidisciplinary team
* Desirable: Experience of providing CBTp or BFT as a trial therapist
Disclosure and Sponsorship / UK Registration
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Applications from job seekers who require Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer: Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Early Intervention Team, 7 Welsey Street, Salford, M27 6AD
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