An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Salford Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT). The postholder will be responsible for providing and clinically leading a high-quality psychology service within the team for people experiencing mental and physical ill-health .
You will join a well established, multi-disciplinary service, providing a service to anyone presenting with a suspected or actual mental health difficulty in either the Emergency Department or on the acute hospital wards. We work closely alongside our acute colleagues to ensure that any patient receives a high quality level of care for their mental health, alongside any physical health difficulties.
Provide direct face-to-face clinical sessions in which they will carry out highly specialist psychological assessments, leading to the co-development of formulations to guide signposting and/or subsequent short-term interventions and contribute to the team-based care planning and change focused work. The post holder will be expected to provide one-to-one, family and group intervention work as appropriate.
Support the implementation of trauma informed ways of working by facilitating the development of MHLT colleague’s psychosocial intervention knowledge and skills. This may also be by the provision of co-working opportunities, supervision, consultation and liaison sessions, as well as formulation sessions, in house training events, reflective practice sessions and de-briefs, and staff-focused well-being initiatives.
Contribute to maintaining a culture of person-centred care and personal recovery within the team by liaising with colleagues across organisations, attending MHLT MDT meetings, and other MDT and professionals meeting as required.
Close co-working with MHLT senior colleagues will be key, and the postholder will be expected to contribute to service development initiatives and their evaluation by audit and research work as required to support and enable the service’s adaptation to future changes to delivery as required.
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world’s most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
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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

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