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Job Description
**We offer a relocation package of up to 8,000**
This is an exciting and well supported opportunity for an enthusiastic CBT or CAT therapist to join our friendly Psychology team in Crewe. You will be joining a small psychology team consisting of a Principal Clinical Psychologist, a Highly Specialist clinical psychologist, a CBT therapist and an Assistant psychologist. We also routinely offer trainee Clinical psychologist placements and/or other trainee therapy placement.
We are a values' driven team and we support collaborative, person centred and trauma informed practices in all our interactions with service users and colleagues
We are very keen to grow our Psychology team in order to meet the Community Transformation agenda ambitions and to make psychological interventions widely available for a greater majority of the service users under the care of the CMHT.
We welcome applications from people on their way to therapy accreditation, in either CBT or CAT, who are passionate to work with people experiencing severe or more complex mentalhealth difficulties.
A commitment to working in a Trauma Informed manner is essential and a desire to support communities is important.
We welcome conversation with applicants interested in this post. We also particularly welcome applications and conversation with applicants from underrepresented communities.
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialist psychological therapy service to clients with complex mental health problems under the care of Ageless CMHT in Crewe. To provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions as well as providing consultation and advice on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To support trainees and qualified practitioners' supervision as agreed. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. To regularly engage with clinical supervision and CPD activities, according to professional registration requirements
About us
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment ,which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. A Guide to completing your application form can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the essential criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer YES to the question: Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a Silver award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).
The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of 13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team on 01244 393100.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge & Expertise
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Delamere Resource Centre
45 Delemere Street,
Crewe
CW1 2ER
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
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This is an exciting and well supported opportunity for an enthusiastic CBT or CAT therapist to join our friendly Psychology team in Crewe. You will be joining a small psychology team consisting of a Principal Clinical Psychologist, a Highly Specialist clinical psychologist, a CBT therapist and an Assistant psychologist. We also routinely offer trainee Clinical psychologist placements and/or other trainee therapy placement.
We are a values' driven team and we support collaborative, person centred and trauma informed practices in all our interactions with service users and colleagues
We are very keen to grow our Psychology team in order to meet the Community Transformation agenda ambitions and to make psychological interventions widely available for a greater majority of the service users under the care of the CMHT.
We welcome applications from people on their way to therapy accreditation, in either CBT or CAT, who are passionate to work with people experiencing severe or more complex mentalhealth difficulties.
A commitment to working in a Trauma Informed manner is essential and a desire to support communities is important.
We welcome conversation with applicants interested in this post. We also particularly welcome applications and conversation with applicants from underrepresented communities.
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialist psychological therapy service to clients with complex mental health problems under the care of Ageless CMHT in Crewe. To provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions as well as providing consultation and advice on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To support trainees and qualified practitioners' supervision as agreed. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. To regularly engage with clinical supervision and CPD activities, according to professional registration requirements
About us
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trusts Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment ,which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. A Guide to completing your application form can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trusts Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the essential criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer YES to the question: Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a Silver award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).
The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of 13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team on 01244 393100.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, counselling or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
- HCPC Registered (Band 8a)
- BABCP/UKCP or other relevant registration professional body (Band 8a)
- Additional Psychotherapy qualification/ training relevant to working with complex presentations in one or more psychological therapies e.g CBT, Compassion focused Therapy, Brief interpersonal therapy, Dynamic Interpersonal therapy
- Supervision training (Band 8a)
Desirable
- Core NHS/Social Services professional training
Knowledge & Expertise
Essential
- Skills in conducting complex psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and /or clinically sensitive information to clients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Skills in providing Consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups (Band 8a)
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of supervision theory and practice
- Skills in working with people with complex and specialist needs
- Ability to apply psychological knowledge creatively in developing new initiatives.
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals (Band 8a)
- Experience of providing teaching and training (Band 8a)
- Experience of contributing to policy and service development (Band 8a)
- Awareness of national health care policy and guidance (Band 8a)
Experience
Essential
- Post-qualification NHS experience of working as a clinical, counselling or health psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied psychological problems
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients
- Experience of working as part of a multi-professional team
Desirable
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of providing teaching and training
- Experience of contributing to policy and service development
- Experience of working with Older Adults
Experience
Essential
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with complex clients.
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-professional team.
- Post-qualification NHS experience of working as a clinical, counselling or health psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied psychological problems (Band 8a)
- Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients (Band 8a)
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care within the context of a multi -disciplinary teams and care plans (Band 8a)
- Experience of working as part of a multi-professional team (Band 8a)
Desirable
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals
- Experience of providing clinical supervision (Band 8a)
- Experience of providing teaching and training (Band 8a)
- Experience of contributing to policy and service development (Band 8a)
- Experience of working with Older Adults (Band 8a)
Employer details
Employer name
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Delamere Resource Centre
45 Delemere Street,
Crewe
CW1 2ER
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
373-SMH1993-B