Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - CAMHS | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 15 Mai 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Mehefin 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Rochdale, OL12 9QB |
| Cwmni: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7990553/311-HYM767-26 |
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We are looking for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join our busy CAMHS team to cover maternity leave for 12 months. The post will sit within our well established core CAMHS pathways.
Job Summary
• To provide a qualified specialist CAMHS clinical psychology service to clients of the service, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy including Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapies and psycho-dynamically informed psychotherapies.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the CAMHS Service
• To take the lead in the development of new areas of service delivery.
• To provide supervision to qualified and pre-qualified staff.
• To offer expert consultation to partner agencies and other professionals within the multi-disciplinary team.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team.
• To formulate and implements plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both therapeutic and theoretical models and highly complex factors
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
• To provide specialist psychologically informed advice, guidance, supervision and consultation to other professionals.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professionals and team members on risk assessment and risk management
• To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers’, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
• To offer specialist therapy in a range of therapeutic modalities.
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
please see detailed job description and person specification. please note this role is for maternity cover for 12 months.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 May 2026