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Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £74,290 - £85,601 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 3XE |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7236614/311-HYM667-25-C |
Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled, compassionate, experienced consultant clinical psychologist to join us in Pennine Care NHS foundation trust CAMHS.
Why Pennine Care CAMHS?
We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the CAMHS Care Hub.
We support staff to work flexibly and recognise and respect the roles our colleagues hold outside of their working hours.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone’s value should be recognised and respected.
We proactively challenge injustices, and are the only Trust in the North West to publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice.
We are committed to staff development and have an extensive psychological therapies training programme
To lead the design and delivery of evidence-based care pathways and psychological interventions for a range of childhood emotional health and well-being issues across the local system. To support whole system transformation and lead programmes of change that ensure that the principles of “Future in Mind” and iThrive recommendations are delivered within the locality. Ensure the systematic provision of high-quality clinical psychology and psychological interventions in the multidisciplinary team for the child and family population of the locality, across all sectors of care.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service Embed a local culture of early intervention and develop the recovery and self-management agenda within all
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
As the Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist the post holder would provide clinical leadership for the Clinical Psychologists, Psychological Therapists and practitioners delivering psychological interventions in the locality CAMHS. These other posts would include generic psychology posts and specialist psychological posts working with Looked After Children, Autism and Learning Disability and therapists’ posts across a range of modalities. Across Pennine Care there has been recent publication of Psychological Therapies plan for working age and older adults and a Psychological Therapies plan for children and young people is being developed.
Key Result Areas
Clinical:
1. The ensure the development and delivery of whole system evidence-based care pathways that have a strong emphasis on recovery, self-management, capacity building and placing expertise at points where CYP can easily access.
2. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the multidisciplinary team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data form a variety of sources including systematic clinical psychometric procedures, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
This advert closes on Sunday 1 Jun 2025