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Employer: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Oldham, United Kingdom (Royal Oldham Hospital)
Reference: 311-O729-26-C
Contact: Dr Sarah McHale, Consultant Clinical Psychologist | sarahmchale@nhs.net
Closing Date: July 8, 2026
Interview Date: July 28, 2026
Grade: NHS AfC Band 8b
Contract: Permanent, Part-time (30 hours per week, 0.8 WTE)
Salary: £66,582 – £77,368 per annum, pro rata
Exciting opportunity for a permanent Principal Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, Forensic) to join the Oldham Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). This is a key leadership role within a dynamic and supportive service, coming at a time of significant new investment in the crisis pathway.
Main Duties
- Provide consultation and formulation to colleagues within the CRHTT
- Provide a qualified specialist psychology service for people referred to the CRHTT care pathway
- Specialist assessment, formulation and interventions for a clinical caseload
- Provide psychological leadership to the CRHTT care pathway
- Work systemically across services (acute services and secondary care)
- Lead psychological CRHTT provision within borough and support Trust-wide acute pathway
- Propose and implement evidence-based practice
- Enhance psychological understanding through delivery of training, supervision and reflective practice
- Link with local universities and provide placements for trainee Psychologists
- Contribute to local and national initiatives to improve care quality
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Essential Criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or postgraduate training in Forensic or Counselling Psychology) as accredited by BPS
- Current HCPC registration as Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist
- Demonstrable post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of adult clients
- Experience working with complex mental health problems including psychosis, complex relational and emotional needs, severe depression, anxiety and trauma
- Experience working with people experiencing suicidal crisis
- Experience of clinical leadership
- Experience providing clinical supervision
- Experience providing teaching/training upon clinical interventions
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Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification training within psychological therapies (DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc)
- Experience working within an acute service setting
Pennine Care was ranked best mental health and learning disability trust in the North in the latest NHS Staff Survey.
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