Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Principal Clinical Psychologist
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Older Adult Community Mental Health Team and Memory Service – West - Maternity Cover
12 Month Fixed Term Post: Principal Clinical Psychologist
Band 8b - 1 x 1.0 wte
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover post within the older adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Memory Service, covering West Cheshire (Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Northwich, and rural areas), with a base in Chester.
CWP community mental health services are multi-disciplinary teams aiming to provide person-centered, psychologically and trauma-informed models of care. The Memory Service works closely alongside the older adult CMHT to provide an assessment and diagnosis service for dementia. Psychology has been integrated and is valued within the multi-disciplinary team, providing specialist assessment and interventions, as well as contributing to the clinical thinking and decision-making of the teams. Psychological skills are also applied to delivering training, staff wellbeing initiatives, and service development projects.
We would like to recruit an experienced psychologist that will join an expanding older adult psychology workforce. You will support the development of a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner in your team. You will meet regularly with other senior psychologists throughout the Trust and an older adult psychology specialty group to ensure equitable service delivery.
Responsibilities
- Join a supportive multi-disciplinary team passionate about working with older adults.
- Responsible for providing assessments (including neuropsychological if required), formulations, and therapeutic interventions (both individually and in group format) to people with complex psychological and mental health difficulties.
- Provide specialist neuropsychological assessment to inform MDT decisions within the memory service.
- Support the wider team to develop psychological understandings of people’s difficulties through consultation, supervision, and training.
- Take a lead in service evaluations and ensure high standards of clinical effectiveness and clinical governance.
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Location
Based near the historic Roman city of Chester, the service has good links with the three local universities (Liverpool, Lancaster, and Manchester), providing opportunities to support trainees with research projects/audits and input into the teaching programmes.
Working Arrangements
The service currently offers flexible working with a mixture of both remote and face-to-face encouraged.
About Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP)
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
- Employs around 4,500 staff across 73 sites.
- Services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool, and Stockport.
- Aims to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centered approach to everything we do.
- Rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.
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As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organization, and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences. We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Recruitment Process
All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks of training to support you to meet the induction/initial training requirements of the role.
Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits, contact:
- Name: Zeshan Khawaja
- Job Title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email Address: zeshan.khawaja@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 01244 393428
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100.
Dr Hannah Partridge (Clinical Psychologist)
- Email: hannah.partridge6@nhs.net
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