Consultant Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £76,965.00 to £88,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £76965.00 - £88682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 July 2025 |
| Location: | Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 2EW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9232-25-0200 |
Summary
Clinical: To provide clinical leadership to psychologists and psychological therapists working across the Physical Health Psychology and Paediatric Psychology teams to ensure the provision of a high-quality therapy service to people with complex co-morbid physical and mental health conditions. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for governance of psychological and therapeutic practice across Physical Health Psychology teams and Paediatric Psychology. To provide professional appraisal and the identification of CPD needs across the Physical Health Psychology teams. To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of psychologists and therapists working with long-term conditions, including those within IAPT teams. To take lead for workforce planning in and related recruitment and staff professional development activities within but not limited to Physical Health Psychology teams and Paediatric Psychology. To contribute significantly to expansion of Physical Health Psychology and Paediatric Psychology through the development of new SLAs within acute trusts and pathways across teams within the Trust and to lead on service innovation and evaluation. Responsible for the highly specialist psychological assessment and care-planning of clients with highly complex and contentious comorbid physical and mental health conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources. Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk. Undertakes complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high physical risks inherent in the client group. Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of care plans with clients and/or their carers, Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients with complex comorbid physical and mental health difficulties, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.