Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 09 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £62,215.00 to £72,293.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £62215.00 - £72293.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Salford, M6 8HG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9437-25-0563 |
Summary
Please refer to attached Job Description for full details. To undertake highly specialist psychological assessments of complex clients, based upon the appropriate use and interpretation of data from various sources, including neuropsychological tests, across a wide-ranging age group. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about assessment and treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group drawing on advanced specialist knowledge and planning of complex processes. To formulate the presentation of a range of complex mental health problems and their potential interaction with physical health problems to aid personal recovery. This includes formulation of the complex systems in which individuals are receiving care. To adjust and refine psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintain several provisional hypotheses. To deliver highly specialist interventions and develop specialised programmes of psychological care. To undertake risk assessment for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To advise upon psychological treatment plans for intervention and/or management. To harness and support the psychological skills of other team members by providing supervision, opportunities for co-working, and multi-disciplinary forums. To develop and maintain appropriate frameworks for the provision of supervision and consultancy to support the psychological and psychosocial intervention work of colleagues.