Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Adult Acute Pathway Locality

at  Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000
The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.
This is an exciting opportunity to be the strategic and professional lead for Working Age Adults Psychology provision within Acute Inpatient Services, with additional professional leadership responsibility for Psychology within First Response (Crisis Response & Home Treatment Team), in East Cheshire. This brand new 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist Locality Lead post for working age adults demonstrates CWP’s commitment to improving the psychological and trauma informed care provided to patients, families and staff in the acute services pathway. This post is part of the first phase of creating an established and sustainable Trust-wide Psychology workforce within the acute pathway for working age adults and older people. In recognition of this being a new development, we are offering this post at 8c with the option of it being an 8b/c development post.
As the Consultant Clinical Psychologist Lead you will be responsible for providing clinical, professional and strategic leadership in developing and maintaining systematic, high quality and comprehensive psychology services for working age adults within the acute pathway, and for professional and clinical leadership for Psychology within First Response (CRHTT) service in a locality. You will be based in an inpatient service and work with the locality senior leadership team(s) and specialty clinical network to enhance and evaluate the psychological care offer for working age adults across acute inpatient wards, respite and urgent care services provided by the multi-professional workforce and in overall service planning and transformation across the locality and specialty. Providing training, consultancy, supervision and support to multi-professional staff, teams and managers will be essential, as will taking a strategic and pragmatic approach to service evaluation, audit and research as part of on-going quality improvement. You will also provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention, and input to care and treatment planning and discharge planning for individual patients, working as part of the multidisciplinary team and as an autonomous specialist Consultant. As an 8b/c development post holder, you would be supported to develop the service while gaining 8c level competencies and experience with an individual development and support plan.
CWP is an innovative and transformational all-ages mental health service provider. There will be opportunities to join internal and external professional and clinical networks, undertake research, and provide training and support to the next generation of psychology and mental health practitioners. There are strong connections to the three main DClinPsy regional training programmes (Liverpool, Lancaster and Manchester). You will join the CWP Consultant Psychologists and Consultant Psychotherapists Group, a newly established, dynamic group with responsibility for developing and ensuring effective governance of psychological service provision across CWP. Clinical and professional supervision will be provided, and on-going continuing professional development supported.
A relocation package is available for those meeting criteria. Flexible, part-time and job-sharing requests will be considered favourably. We encourage applications from suitably qualified and experienced people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.
All applicants must be HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists with significant, relevant experience as per the job description and person specification.
For those interested in the 8b/c development post option, please read both the 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist and the 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist job descriptions.
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment , which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’ Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website https://www.cwp.nhs.uk/completing-application-guidance . If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email – cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or by calling 01244 393100.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Silver’ award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).
The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team on 01244 393100.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon

Please refer the Job description for details