Principal Clinical Psychologist Learning Disabilities | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	26 January 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	25 February 2026
Location:	Stalybridge, SK15 2AU
Company:	Pennine Care NHS FT
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7734728/311-F891-26

Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Principle Clinical Psychologist to join our Tameside and Glossop CAMHS service

The CAMHS service is a community team offering a service to children and young people aged 5-18 .

The role includes
• Service improvements
• Development and delivery of training
• Conducting research, audit, and evaluation.
• Development of treatment pathways
• Consultation and intervention to CYP in the team
• Multi agency working
• Clinical supervision



The postholder will provide opportunities for support, clinical leadership, and guidance across the multi-disciplinary teams with a view to supporting evidence-based practice, a culture of reflection and learning in addition to playing a key role in supporting the well-being of our workforce. In addition, the postholder will carry a caseload . Caseload will be determined via clinical supervision and include cases of significant risk and acuity .

The post holder will work to support the wider clinical activities of the clinical psychology workforce within the team and provide cover and support across the pathways in the event of staff absence. The post holder may be expected to provide clinical supervision duties to both qualified and unqualified psychologists. The post holder will also play an active role in the promotion of psychology .

Pennine Care is a Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Foundation Trust providing a wide range of care within the community and inpatient services across a large geographical footprint across Greater Manchester.

The CAMHS Care Hub sits within the Specialist Network across 5 localities and consists of a number of teams that are friendly, caring and compassionate and strives to deliver outstanding care and treatment to service users . Our services have a strong multidisciplinary approach consisting of multiple professionals

To provide clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology for CAMHS team . To ensure the provision of a high-quality clinical psychology pathway. To provide highly specialized psychological assessment whilst offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to other colleagues and different professional groups. To contribute to research, audit, policy, and service development. To propose and implement policy changes within the areas served. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures. To provide clinical supervision and consultation to individuals and groups of staff across the learning disability care hub, including psychology staff. To provide support and cover for the provision of psychology services across the team. To play an active role in the promotion of psychology . To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To develop and engage in pathway development, ensuring the application of trauma informed models of care, using least restrictive practice.
Clinical:
To lead on care planning for service users in receipt of psychology and engage with their families and carer’s. To undertake highly specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use and interpretation of complex data from various sources. To undertake clinical duties as necessary to support the psychology offer within the CAMHS team . To develop psychological formulations of complex difficulties to inform the team’s understanding, treatment, and management of these difficulties; discharge planning; and when appropriate recommendations for further assessment and intervention after discharge. To provide appropriate structured psychological interventions and psychological therapies. To support the development and delivery of therapeutic, psychoeducational or skills development groups as need dictates. To harness and support the development of psychosocial skills of other team members by providing clinical supervision, consultation, training and liaison work and opportunities for co-working. To develop and maintain appropriate psychosocial supervision frameworks. To contribute to the appropriate risk assessment and risk management by providing training and consultation to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To promote team working and constructive relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues. To collaborate with the multi-disciplinary teams across the care hub on the development of best practice. To promote a trauma informed model of care across the care hub. To provide support, leadership and containment for colleagues working across the care hub. To consider and proactively support staff’s wellbeing, including facilitation of debriefs following any incidents and facilitating reflective practice sessions as need dictates.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision:
To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies, and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies. To gain highly specialised/extended expertise in particular psychological approaches and/or with client groups and/or in management through further specialist supervision and experience supported by a programme of professional development as identified in an agreed personal development plan. To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical line management supervision to psychology staff working in the unit and the wider care hub. To provide advice, consultation, training, and clinical supervision to other professionals for their provision of psychologically informed assessment and psychologically based interventions. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology as appropriate.
To maintain and develop skills in pre-and post-graduate training and
To contribute to personal development / performance reviews for psychology staff across the care hub. To actively participate in continuing professional development involving a variety of activities including attending seminars, conferences, reading and courses. To be responsible for maintaining up to date records of any CPD or mandatory training activities undertaken.
Management, Recruitment, Policy, and Service Development:
To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service for the care hub including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
To exercise responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to the teams, whether in the form of other qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials used in the assessment and treatment of adults, families, and carers. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within team. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistants, clinical associates in psychology, and qualified clinical psychologists.
Research and Service Evaluation:
To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician in the evaluation, monitoring and development of aspects of the team’s clinical practice, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence- based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. To initiate project management working in conjunction with the care hub Project Manager, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to service users and their families.
Service User, Carer and Stakeholder Involvement:
To promote a person-centred service philosophy for service users and carer’s’. Ensure, as far as practicable, the full involvement of service users – and where appropriate, relatives and carer’s – in the assessment of service user needs and the formulation and review of their care plans. Promote user and carer involvement in the recruitment and training of staff.
Promote user and Carer involvement in the evaluation and development of service


This advert closes on Monday 9 Feb 2026