# Associate Network Director of Psychological Therapies > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-network-director-of-psychological-therapies/b850b138-07e3-4f6b-be7a-1f6cbb4c5a86 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-network-director-of-psychological-therapies/b850b138-07e3-4f6b-be7a-1f6cbb4c5a86.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** The Meadows - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Director - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £94,356 - £108,814 PA, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-07T07:48:34.670Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Oldham/Pennine_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Mental_Health_Psychological_Therapies/Adult_Mental_Health_Psychological_Therapies-v8305977 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8305977?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity to join our leadership team both within Psychological Therapies and our Mental Health Network. The post holder will become part of the collective leadership team for the network, with an additional specific remit around the leadership of psychological therapies/professions within the network. The post holder will join our Mental Health Network leadership team to provide strategic leadership to our acute and community pathways. They will work closely with the Chief Psychological Professions Officer, the Mental Health Network senior leadership team, the Locality Operational Managers and Commissioners. They will be part of a collaborative and compassion focused leadership team, taking a trauma responsive approach to delivering services. The role has a strategic focus which will require liaison with the wider system, contribution to quality improvement and transformation agendas and leading on the implementation of national guidance and policy in relation to the delivery and governance of psychological therapies. It is also expected that the post-holder will retain a small caseload and provide a specialist clinical role within a psychological service. They will deputise for the Chief Psychological Professions Officer as and when it is appropriate. The post holder will join our Gold on call rota. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will join the senior leadership team in the Mental Health Network. They will be part of a collaborative and compassion focused leadership team, focusing on: Setting Strategic Direction – developing service strategies and plans for improvement that promote consistency in standards and outcomes across our footprint. Delivery and Performance – ensuring accountability and governance are in place within the network and support delivery of the Trust Big Ambitions, strategic objectives, and statutory requirements. Leadership and Support – creating the right culture and environment for high performance. The post holder will provide clear leadership and will be a role model for the delivery of the trust values and culture. They will provide clinical and professional leadership for all psychological therapies staff within the Network and across the Trust where indicated. They will additionally provide clinical and professional advice on psychological practice and provide assurance on the delivery of psychological approaches both within the Network and across the Trust.It is also expected that the post-holder will retain a small caseload and provide a specialist clinical role within a psychological service. They will deputise for the Chief Psychological Professions Officer as and when it is appropriate. The post holder will join our Gold on call rota. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted. Please note, this is not an exhaustive list. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. - High level ability to communicate effectively at both written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS - Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups - High level skills in clinical and professional supervision - Ability to think and plan strategically at a clinical and service level, where interventions may impact on a range of services and individuals and require longer term objectives and planning - Ability to provide teaching, training, advice, consultation and supervision to meet the needs of a wide range of lay and professional people, using a range of formats and materials - Ability to effectively respond to, and cope with, complex client, team and system dynamics and environments, where this may involve high levels of emotional and psychological stress and distress - Ability to articulate and represent psychological therapies services perspectives in a range of clinical and professional fora ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health - Awareness of relevant professional guidelines and standards for the provision of psychological services and ability to interpret and implement the same in practice and service delivery ### Experience **Essential** - Assessed substantial experience of working as a Clinical Psychologist - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, in various settings including outpatient, community, primary care inpatient and residential care settings. Also including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threats of physical abuse - Experience of providing a range of complex psychological assessment and interventions using information derived from a variety of sources and requiring highly developed analytic and interpretative skills. - Experience of staff, team and service management - Experience of working within environments involving exposure to significant professional, clinical and ethical challenges. - Experience of effective multi-agency and disciplinary team working and networking. - Experience of clinical and professional management of qualified and pre- qualified clinical psychologists and other psychological therapists - Experience of representing the profession or service in local policy fora - Experience of teaching, training and / or professional and clinical supervision - Experience of strategic service development and evaluation ### Qualifications **Essential** - Good honours degree in psychology - Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS) - Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology, (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological theories and lifespan development psychology - HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist (clinical) - Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 310.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10626057) - [person specification (pdf, 143.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10626058) - [policy statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 117.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=440) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.