Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist
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Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist
We are delighted to invite applications for a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist to join our adult acute inpatient wards in Stockport. This is a full-time Band 8a role for a skilled and compassionate psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic) who is motivated by multidisciplinary working and committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based psychological care within a dynamic and supportive team.
A Band 7-8a preceptorship opportunity is also available.
About the Role
Our adult acute wards, Norbury and Arden, provide specialist assessment, care, and treatment for men and women presenting with a range of mental health needs. Admissions commonly occur via A&E, Mental Health Liaison, the Home Treatment Team, or community Mental Health Act Assessments. Service users are often experiencing significant distress, mental health deterioration, and/or crisis, requiring responsive, person-centered, and trauma-informed care.
On Norbury, you will work alongside an 8b Practitioner Psychologist, 8a Practitioner Psychologist, assistant psychologists helping to embed our Female Model of Care. On Arden, you will be the sole practitioner working into the ward alongside the MDT team. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and influence psychological practice within acute care and to contribute to an evolving model of high-quality, compassionate support for men and women in crisis.
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Main Duties
- To hold a clinical caseload undertaking evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention (individual and/or group). This may include a range of mental health difficulties at the point of crisis including experiences of psychosis, depression, and/or Complex Emotional and Relational Needs (CERN)
- To work as part of the MDT and provide specialist psychological support, consultation, and guidance, and contribute to care-planning contributing directly to the assessment, formulation, and intervention plan.
- To provide reflective practice, team formulation, and training to develop a psychological understanding and context for patients and carers, that is formulation driven, recovery-focused, and trauma and gender-informed.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- To undertake project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.
Benefits
Our acute pathway provides an evidence-based, high-quality service across adult acute wards, Home Treatment Teams, and Mental Health Liaison Teams covering half of Greater Manchester. The Trustwide acute psychology team meets regularly for team meetings, CPD, and facilitated reflective group and has leadership from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Lead.
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We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership. Our staff survey results support this. In the latest national NHS Staff Survey (2024), Pennine Care was ranked as the best mental health and learning disability trust in the North.
We support staff to work flexibly and recognize and respect the roles our colleagues hold outside of working hours. This focus helps us to retain staff and ensure people are happy in their place of work.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the top of our agenda. We know a diverse, inclusive, and engaged culture is vital; that everyone's value should be recognized and respected.
There are also opportunities to link with local higher education providers and the research & innovation (R&I) team to engage with related research projects.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Sarah McHale
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead
- Email address: sarahmchale@nhs.net
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