Clinical/counselling Psychologist

Job overview

Clinical Psychologist within Homeless Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Clinical Psychologist with enthusiasm and interest in working with the homeless population in Manchester to join a friendly and supportive mental health multidisciplinary team.

The post is 8 permanent sessions (30 hours).

This post offers a varied and positive opportunity for a qualified Clinical Psychologist to work in a team which has both direct work and indirect ways of working.

The postholder will primarily support the work of the Manchester Mental Health Homeless Team and will contribute to the Homeless Hub-wide Psychology initiatives.

Working within a trauma informed approach, we offer psychological consultation, training and reflective practice to mental health staff in the homeless hub and homelessness workers in partner organisations across the Greater Manchester area. Psychological assessments and interventions with services users is undertaken as appropriate and we aim to provide a flexible and accessible service that recognises the additional needs of the homeless population. Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency collaborative working are at the foundation of our work.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients with complex, severe and longstanding mental health difficulties which frequently involve high risk behaviour, e.g. risk of suicide and self-harm. Clients who are referred to the service have often either failed to engage with, or benefit from, other mental health services.

• To contribute to the service delivery and target objectives/priorities of the Homeless Hub plans •    To manage a clinical caseload  •    To carry out specialised risk assessments and  agree risk management plans with individual clients, and to provide advice on aspects of risk formulation and management to other clinicians and services •    To provide clinical supervision, training and team reflective practice to mental health and non-mental health workers. •    To be responsible for the clinical supervision and teaching of trainees •    To engage in peer supervision and peer consultation with clinical colleagues within the service •    To provide clinical consultations for clinicians, including therapists in training, when difficult and challenging issues of assessment, treatment and risk management arise.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts