Lead Psychologist

Are you an experienced Senior Psychologist looking for a new challenge in a rewarding environment, where you can make a real difference? If so, then join the team at All Saints Hospital in Oldham as a Lead Psychologist and enjoy support from a regional network of Psychologists as you flourish in your career.

With experience from the NHS or the private sector as a Senior or Lead Psychologist, you will carry a caseload of 20 Deaf service users with complex needs. Additionally, you will be provided with autonomy to design and deliver a specialist psychological intervention programme in collaboration with an experienced multi-disciplinary team.

What you will be doing:

You will work 37.5 hours a week as the Lead Psychologist for a service that offers a specialist mental health service for men who are deaf and who have complex communication needs.

As a Lead Psychologist, you will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working and the completion of robust risk assessments. You will also support the clinical teams in creating reports with service users to increase engagement through interventions and developing new initiatives.

You will provide strong clinical leadership to the psychology department in respect of providing a variety of therapeutic approaches to service users as well as providing guidance, support and supervision to the hospital Psychology Assistant.

There is a strong emphasis on teamwork, supervision and CPD, with support from a regional network of Psychologists.

As a Lead Psychologist you will be:

• Attending and contributing to Clinical and Operational Hospital Governance Meetings.
• Leading the psychology service at All Saints Hospital, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Participating fully with the multidisciplinary team and ensuring that the service user is fully engaged in their care pathway.
• Supporting clinical team working, including both direct interventions and the delivery of staff training programmes.
• Supporting the clinical team and wider senior management team in developing new initiatives and ways of working.
• Taking a key role in Psychology service developments, providing an evidence-based approach to new clinical initiatives.
• Maximising current opportunities to make improvements to the service area.
• Participating in the recruitment of junior psychology staff.
• Supporting in the development and implementation of policies that enhance staff safety and risk management.
• Working with internal and external agencies in order to enhance treatment pathways for service users.

To be successful as a Lead Psychologist, you'll have:

• To be registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist and Charterable status with the British Psychological Society
• Successful completion of a Doctorate level qualification in applied psychology either through the British Psychological Society or a recognised training body, enabling registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Competence in assessing, formulating, and working therapeutically with service users
• Ability to identify and proactively resolve problems and challenges within the service
• Ability to supervise junior members of the team
• Knowledge and understanding of working with trauma
• Experience in working with people with complex needs that are relevant to the population in the service area
• Competency in psychological assessments and formulation skills and an aptitude for learning new assessment methods
• Competency in cognitive functioning/management tools and formulation
• Experience in using a range of therapeutic interventions to address a range of clinical and/or forensic issues

Where you will be working:

Location: All Saints Hospital, Grange Avenue, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 4EF

You will be working at All Saints Hospital, a specialist mental health service for people who are deaf or have complex communication needs. It is a culturally sensitive service which has been created to provide support and rehabilitation with care and intervention from both deaf and hearing members of staff. You will be working at a multidisciplinary team at All Saints which have self-contained flats for men over 18 years old, to help them move along their care pathway to more independent living.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of up to £70,000
• Welcome bonus of £5000
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) - plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help