Job overview
We are looking for a motivated Highly Specialist psychologist to join our multi-agency No Wrong Door team (Our Place) in Rochdale. Our Place provides an integrated service and approach to supporting young people with complex needs who are on the edge of care or who are cared for. The model combines a defined culture and practice with a range of services, support and accommodation options, and specialists work together through a shared practice framework. At the heart of the model is a residential Hub, providing short-term placements and outreach support. Multi-agency staffing includes children’s services, clinical psychology, speech and language therapy to provide a wraparound service to children and families.
Job summary:
To offer expert consultation and training to partner agencies and other professionals within Our Place. • To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients of Our Place, providing specialist assessment and therapy (which may include a range of therapeutic approaches).
- To work with families and young people within their own homes and those within the specialist internal residential service. • To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of service policies and procedures. • To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development • To take the lead in the development of new areas of service delivery. • To provide supervision to qualified and pre-qualified staff.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources
To formulate and implements plans for psychological treatment and/or management of young people's mental health problems
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups To provide specialist psychologically informed advice, guidance, supervision and consultation to other professionals. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professionals and team members on risk assessment and risk management To plan individual client care, ensuring the provision of a multidisciplinary/ multi-agency care package appropriate for the client’s needs. To monitor progress during the course of multidisciplinary interventions To offer specialist therapy in a range of therapeutic modalities, for example CBT, DBT, psycho-dynamically informed psychotherapies, systemic or relational/ dyadic therapies To take the lead in developing discrete areas of service, including services for complex and high risk adolescents, specifically for young people under the care of No Wrong Door/ Our Place
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For additional details regarding the post, please see detailed job description and person specification.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric testing, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to work flexibly including some evenings and occasional weekends
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for children and young people
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Knowledge of life coaching principles and practice.
Experience
Essential
- • Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist (with demonstrable experience at a specialist level).
- • Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- • Experience of working with families and carers.
- • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a MDT care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and / or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- • Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- • Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC registration as a clinical psychologist with Chartered Status
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- • Specialist training in therapeutic work with children, young people and families.
work related circumstance
Essential
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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This advert is for Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - No Wrong Door/ CAMHS with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust in Ashton Under Lyne, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Jul 2026.
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