Job summary: An exciting opportunity has arisen for a period of 10 months to cover maternity leave from January 2026. This is a 0.2-0.26WTE post for a principal clinical psychologist to contribute to the ongoing development of the Mental Health and Intensive Support Team (MHIST).
Our service is multidisciplinary with nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, healthy lifestyle coaches, senior support workers, peer support workers and along with the post advertised, a small psychological provision. The service aims to provide an intensive community rehabilitation-based service for people with complex difficulties to enable them to define, build and live meaningful, independent lives away from long term, complex rehabilitation hospital settings.
This could be a perfect opportunity for a secondment development opportunity within a current role if you are an internal applicant; or may be something to top up your hours if you are currently part time in or outside of the trust.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients with complex presentations that will include personality disorder, complex trauma and other comorbid conditions across community and in patient care. To advise, supervise and support the assessment and treatment provided by clinical members of the teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment within the service.
About us
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, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential:
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* Registered with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist
Desirable:
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Knowledge & Expertise Essential:
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* 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.
Experience Essential:
* Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of four years with 2 years at a highly specialist level.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
We are a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award. CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
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