Consultant Clinical Psychologist

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is a leading provider of mental health, social care, learning disability and substance misuse services in the West Midlands. We are delighted to have been awarded Outstanding from the Care Quality Commission. One of our key objectives is to attract and inspire the best people to work here. We strive to be recognised as a centre of excellence in both integrated and specialist care, bringing innovative solutions to the services we deliver and the strategies we develop, embedding a culture of continuous learning across our organisation, and supporting and inspiring others.

Our SPAR Quality Priorities are to deliver services that are Safe, Personalised, Accessible and Recovery-focused. Our Values make clear how we want to go about our business - these are to be Proud to CARE - being Compassionate, Approachable, Responsible and Excellent.

We have four clinical directorates to ensure the effective running of our services:

• Stoke Community
• North Staffs Community
• Acute and Urgent
• Specialist

We are moving to more integrated services across North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, supporting a new alliance of health and care providers including mental health, primary care, community services, acute services, social care and voluntary sector.

Key details

• Location Site: Darwin Centre
• Town: Stoke-on-Trent
• Postcode: ST4 7LF
• Contract type & working pattern: Permanent, Part time - 30 hours per week
• Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
• Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 8c)

Job overview

The Darwin Centre Adolescent Tier 4 Inpatient Service is offering the opportunity for Agile Working and working from home options for the right candidate. This position is for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to work within the Darwin Centre. The post-holder will be a Highly Motivated member of the Darwin Centre senior leadership team, providing clinical leadership to psychologists and psychological professionals developing and embedding psychological and trauma-informed approaches within the service.

The role will involve direct clinical work with patients, clinical consultation, leadership and oversight of the psychology team within the Darwin Centre and the Intensive Support Hub, teaching and training. An experienced and competent supervisor is required to supervise clinical colleagues and trainee psychologists. Leadership experience is essential, including strategic and workforce planning for the psychology team and contributing to the regional clinical advisory group.

Experience in DBT, working with individuals with high levels of risk and vulnerability and those with Autism is essential.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for team delivery of highly specialist psychological care to adolescent inpatients with highly complex mental health conditions which may include challenging behaviours and possible risk of harm to self or others.
• To provide clinical supervision and training to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To undertake formal research as a major part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees.
• To lead continual service improvement within own area.
• To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
• To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.

Working for our organisation

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

Applicant requirements

• You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.

Experience

• Must have substantial experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups including both child and adult, with a range of clinical severity across care settings.