Clinical Psychologist

Job Title: Clinical Psychologist

Grade: Band 8a or 8B

Trust: Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust

Location: Styal Rd, Wilmslow SK9 4HR

Hours: 1 day per week – Monday or Tuesday

Pay rate: £26.06 - £30.16 (depending on banding)

About the Trust:

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) provides inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford and Trafford and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond. The Health and Justice Services provide mental health and substance misuse care across a number of different criminal justice settings.

We are seeking to recruit a HCPC Clinical Psychologist to join the IMHT at HMP Styal, on a temporary basis. This role is to support the mental health team and wider prison establishment in providing psychological assessment and formulation driven understanding of mental health, emotional distress, complex personality presentations and trauma responses. The post-holder will need registration with HCPC, and a strong understanding of developmental and complex trauma and the impact this has on offending, mental health, interpersonal behaviour, and personality presentation. An awareness of CPA and stepped care approach to mental health care and provision is desirable.

A prison environment can be a challenging place to work, we are therefore seeking someone not only with strong clinical skills, but also the ability to manage and respond to the dynamic needs of the client group and the environment, to ensure that provision is accessible and appropriate.

Clinical responsibilities –

• To work with individual service-users and others involved in their care to support improved psychological health and well-being and more generally to contribute to a reduction in the risk of offending behaviour.
• To complete detailed and thorough assessments to develop idiosyncratic and nuanced formulations considering a range of relevant factors. The post holder would be expected to carefully consider service-user’s interpersonal interactions, management of emotional regulation, past traumatic experiences and consider how this is linked to their mental health and behavioural presentation within custody.
• To contribute to effective risk management strategies that ensure liaison with all relevant stakeholders in an individual’s care and incorporate service-user involvement where possible.
• To communicate any changes to a service-users risk profile in a timely manner, both operationally and clinically and to report adverse incidents and ensure documentation is detailed and up-to-date.
• To work collaboratively with service-users and staff teams and liaise with a range of other professionals and communicate sensitive and risk information.
• To promote and advocate for a psychologically informed way of working.  
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing in accordance with ethical and professional codes of practice.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility.
• To show resilience within a challenging working environment and have awareness of own professional and personal limitations.

In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of: 

• Relevant Qualifications 

• Registration with the relevant Registration Body

Why NHS Professionals? 

We value your skills, dedication, and commitment in supporting your local Trust and the NHS. We believe together we continue to deliver world-class healthcare service to our patients. 

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: - 

• Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week! 
• First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England 
• Dedicated consultants 
• Flexible working options 
• Free DBS and free training 
• Build holiday allowance
• Stakeholder pension scheme