Principal Clinical Psychologist - Learning Disabilities inHeywood inHeywood PUBLISHED 24 MAY 2024

The Learning Disabilities Care Hub includes five Community Learning Disability Teams across the footprint of Pennine Care.
Job summary

We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our Pennine Care Learning Disability Care Hub.We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community.The NHS annual staff survey results show that we are the most improved mental health and learning disability trust in the country for being seen as a good place to work. We were ranked as the best place to work out of all the mental health and learning disability trusts in the North West.

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join us. We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the Learning Disability Care Hub. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone's value should be recognised and respected. We proactively challenge injustices, and publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice.

Main duties of the job

The Learning Disabilities Care Hub includes five Community Learning Disability Teams across the footprint of Pennine Care. Clinical Psychology is valued locally within our community teams and within the wider Trust. Working base will be discussed at interview.We offer a robust supervision and development structure. You will be part of an expanding, energetic, innovative Learning Disability Care Hub team that values coproduction and working alongside people with lived experience and promotes trauma informed care.This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-agency team, working alongside clinical psychologists, community learning disability nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, and other multidisciplinary mental health practitioners. The Learning Disability Care Hub consists of community learning disability teams delivering services to adults aged 18+ years and with some provisionto children and young people.The postholder will collaborate with other Clinical Psychologists from across the Learning Disability Care Hub to take an active role in coordinating service development and engagement by supporting: Service delivery including development and delivery of psychologicalpathwaysDevelopment and delivery of training? Conducting research, audit, and evaluation.

About us

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance3. Access to Continued Professional Development4. Involvement in improvement and research activities5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to refer to when making your application

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to refer to when making your application

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
  • Current registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable

  • Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc.).
Experience

Essential

  • Experience of clinical leadership within a previous role.
  • Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision to psychologists, psychological therapists or other core health professions.
  • Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/ training upon clinical interventions.
  • Demonstrable experience of managing demand for psychological services and supporting other professionals in their provision of direct psychosocial work
Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies with people with a Learning Disability
  • Knowledge of legal frameworks, other guidance and processes around safeguarding adults.
  • Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
  • Knowledge of relevant national and local service drivers for transformation and service development within Learning Disability services.
  • Evidence of post- qualification CPD as recommended and/or accredited by the BPS, or other professional body.
  • Up to date knowledge of evidence based psychological practices for adults with a Learning Disability
  • Awareness of the principles of a trauma informed care approach
Desirable

  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and approaches for adults with a Learning Disability
  • Publication of training, service evaluation, clinical audit and research material.
Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software
  • Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional group
  • Well developed, effective communication skills, both oral and in writing, enabling complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to be shared with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies.
  • Ability to prioritise work, operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern that requires regular revision of plans
  • Ability to sit in constrained position for service user assessment, formulation, individual and group therapy sessions and for computer work.
  • Ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi- disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
  • Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for service user assessment and formulation, individual and group therapy sessions.
  • Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
  • Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff and carers exposed to highly distressing situations.
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable

  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials, suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
  • Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill in therapeutic intervention.
  • Ability to move equipment (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings
Work Related Circumstances

Essential

  • Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
  • Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
  • Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
  • Current registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable

  • Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc.).
Experience

Essential

  • Experience of clinical leadership within a previous role.
  • Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision to psychologists, psychological therapists or other core health professions.
  • Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/ training upon clinical interventions.
  • Demonstrable experience of managing demand for psychological services and supporting other professionals in their provision of direct psychosocial work
Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies with people with a Learning Disability
  • Knowledge of legal frameworks, other guidance and processes around safeguarding adults.
  • Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
  • Knowledge of relevant national and local service drivers for transformation and service development within Learning Disability services.
  • Evidence of post- qualification CPD as recommended and/or accredited by the BPS, or other professional body.
  • Up to date knowledge of evidence based psychological practices for adults with a Learning Disability
  • Awareness of the principles of a trauma informed care approach
Desirable

  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and approaches for adults with a Learning Disability
  • Publication of training, service evaluation, clinical audit and research material.
Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software
  • Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional group
  • Well developed, effective communication skills, both oral and in writing, enabling complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to be shared with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies.
  • Ability to prioritise work, operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern that requires regular revision of plans
  • Ability to sit in constrained position for service user assessment, formulation, individual and group therapy sessions and for computer work.
  • Ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi- disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
  • Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for service user assessment and formulation, individual and group therapy sessions.
  • Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
  • Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff and carers exposed to highly distressing situations.
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable

  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials, suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
  • Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill in therapeutic intervention.
  • Ability to move equipment (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings
Work Related Circumstances

Essential

  • Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
  • Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
  • Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Pennine Care NHS FT
Address

Callaghan House, HMR & Civic Centre, Oldham (North), South Model Stopford House

Cross Street

Heywood

OL10 2DY

Employer's website
Job summary

We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our Pennine Care Learning Disability Care Hub.We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community.The NHS annual staff survey results show that we are the most improved mental health and learning disability trust in the country for being seen as a good place to work. We were ranked as the best place to work out of all the mental health and learning disability trusts in the North West.

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join us. We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the Learning Disability Care Hub. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone's value should be recognised and respected. We proactively challenge injustices, and publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice.

Main duties of the job

The Learning Disabilities Care Hub includes five Community Learning Disability Teams across the footprint of Pennine Care. Clinical Psychology is valued locally within our community teams and within the wider Trust. Working base will be discussed at interview.We offer a robust supervision and development structure. You will be part of an expanding, energetic, innovative Learning Disability Care Hub team that values coproduction and working alongside people with lived experience and promotes trauma informed care.This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-agency team, working alongside clinical psychologists, community learning disability nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, and other multidisciplinary mental health practitioners. The Learning Disability Care Hub consists of community learning disability teams delivering services to adults aged 18+ years and with some provisionto children and young people.The postholder will collaborate with other Clinical Psychologists from across the Learning Disability Care Hub to take an active role in coordinating service development and engagement by supporting: Service delivery including development and delivery of psychologicalpathwaysDevelopment and delivery of training? Conducting research, audit, and evaluation.

About us

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance3. Access to Continued Professional Development4. Involvement in improvement and research activities5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to refer to when making your application

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to refer to when making your application

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
  • Current registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable

  • Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc.).
Experience

Essential

  • Experience of clinical leadership within a previous role.
  • Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision to psychologists, psychological therapists or other core health professions.
  • Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/ training upon clinical interventions.
  • Demonstrable experience of managing demand for psychological services and supporting other professionals in their provision of direct psychosocial work
Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies with people with a Learning Disability
  • Knowledge of legal frameworks, other guidance and processes around safeguarding adults.
  • Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
  • Knowledge of relevant national and local service drivers for transformation and service development within Learning Disability services.
  • Evidence of post- qualification CPD as recommended and/or accredited by the BPS, or other professional body.
  • Up to date knowledge of evidence based psychological practices for adults with a Learning Disability
  • Awareness of the principles of a trauma informed care approach
Desirable

  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and approaches for adults with a Learning Disability
  • Publication of training, service evaluation, clinical audit and research material.
Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software
  • Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional group
  • Well developed, effective communication skills, both oral and in writing, enabling complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to be shared with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies.
  • Ability to prioritise work, operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern that requires regular revision of plans
  • Ability to sit in constrained position for service user assessment, formulation, individual and group therapy sessions and for computer work.
  • Ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi- disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
  • Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for service user assessment and formulation, individual and group therapy sessions.
  • Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
  • Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff and carers exposed to highly distressing situations.
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable

  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials, suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
  • Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill in therapeutic intervention.
  • Ability to move equipment (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings
Work Related Circumstances

Essential

  • Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
  • Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
  • Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
  • Current registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable

  • Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc.).
Experience

Essential

  • Experience of clinical leadership within a previous role.
  • Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision to psychologists, psychological therapists or other core health professions.
  • Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/ training upon clinical interventions.
  • Demonstrable experience of managing demand for psychological services and supporting other professionals in their provision of direct psychosocial work
Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies with people with a Learning Disability
  • Knowledge of legal frameworks, other guidance and processes around safeguarding adults.
  • Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
  • Knowledge of relevant national and local service drivers for transformation and service development within Learning Disability services.
  • Evidence of post- qualification CPD as recommended and/or accredited by the BPS, or other professional body.
  • Up to date knowledge of evidence based psychological practices for adults with a Learning Disability
  • Awareness of the principles of a trauma informed care approach
Desirable

  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and approaches for adults with a Learning Disability
  • Publication of training, service evaluation, clinical audit and research material.
Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software
  • Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional group
  • Well developed, effective communication skills, both oral and in writing, enabling complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to be shared with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies.
  • Ability to prioritise work, operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern that requires regular revision of plans
  • Ability to sit in constrained position for service user assessment, formulation, individual and group therapy sessions and for computer work.
  • Ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi- disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
  • Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for service user assessment and formulation, individual and group therapy sessions.
  • Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
  • Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff and carers exposed to highly distressing situations.
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable

  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials, suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
  • Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill in therapeutic intervention.
  • Ability to move equipment (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings
Work Related Circumstances

Essential

  • Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
  • Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
  • Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Pennine Care NHS FT
Address

Callaghan House, HMR & Civic Centre, Oldham (North), South Model Stopford House

Cross Street

Heywood

OL10 2DY

Employer's website


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