# Highly Specialist Psychotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-psychotherapist/f8eb8fce-74a1-400b-9490-2841e9fbb175 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-psychotherapist/f8eb8fce-74a1-400b-9490-2841e9fbb175.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** The Meadows - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 PA, pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (From start date) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-01T12:23:33.485Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Ashton/Pennine_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Psychotherapist_Psychologist/Psychotherapist_Psychologist-v8222958 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8222958?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Greater Manchester Resilience Hub is a unique, all age, psychology led, trauma informed, partnership focused portfolio of services, established after the Manchester Arena Attack in 2017. The Critical Incident and Trauma Service (CITS) offers specialist trauma advice, consultation, assessments and interventions following major incidents and to GM health and care staff experiencing incidents, trauma and vicarious trauma at work. The offer is hosted by Pennine Care NHS FT is for systems, teams and individuals. ### Main duties of the job - Ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist trauma service. - To work with people of all ages, including professionals, in GM impacted by major incidents and other traumatic events. - Offer highly specialist trauma informed consultation, assessment and NICE approved therapeutic interventions for individuals and teams. - Support service users to access appropriate treatment, including making referrals on their behalf to mental health services across the UK. - Develop and take responsibility for a range of interventions including 1:1 and group interventions. - Provide highly specialist advice and consultation to other professionals involved in supporting people affected by incidents. - Take a lead in supporting the development of the CITS service and the wider portfolio of the GM Resilience Hub in becoming a GM centre of excellence in the care of those experiencing psychological difficulties as a result of involvement in a major incident or other trauma; this includes deputising for the clinical lead. - Take a lead in any incident and major incident responses. - Take responsibility for the management of, supervision of and development of qualified and unqualified staff within the CITS service. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Support the Clinical Team Leader to ensure there are safe and effective care pathways in place for those impacted by incidents. - Lead on developing an understanding of universal and workplace psychological support offers for health, social care and other professionals involved in incidents. - Take responsibility for maintaining partnerships and effective interfaces with other professionals and agencies that work alongside mental health services in supporting those affected by incidents and trauma. - Proactively involve stakeholders, respond to and support the resolution of conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation and or other appropriate mechanisms. - Undertake clinical reviews of screening information and other referrals received in the CITS service. - Provide assessment and formulation for specialist psychological intervention of complex/high risk service users open to the CITS service. - To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of client’s presenting issues based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems. - Take a lead on developing and reviewing formulation and care planning for services users open to the CITS service. - Provide specialist advice, guidance or consultation to team members and other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation and treatment plans. - Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individuals and provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management of trauma symptoms. - Utilise sound clinical knowledge and awareness of national guidance in relation to trauma focussed interventions to deliver evidence-based therapy to CITS service users. - Develop and lead on consultation, formulation and interventions for systems, managers and teams impacted by trauma in the workplace. - To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the advice, consultation and formulation provided as a highly specialist psychologist/psychotherapist within the CITS service. - Lead on incident responses for teams and individuals, promoting best practice and supporting wider systems. - Plan, lead on and deliver group interventions for CTS service users, with a focus on psycho-social interventions for trauma. - Support the Clinical Team Leader in the planning and delivery of training events for other professionals working with those affected by major incidents. - To offer and contribute to specialist advice, support, education and training to all members of this team and wider services as required. - Be the senior clinician on home visits to families impacted by major incidents, as required. - Maintain knowledge of the evidence base and improve and positively develop clinical practice in relation to psychological support for those impacted by incidents. - Support the identification and sharing of best practice in relation to psycho- social support following major incidents across GM, nationally and internationally as appropriate. - Support the Clinical Team Leader in the development and maintenance of effective systems to monitor individuals for whom treatment is expedited with local providers. - Lead on major incident responses, including representing the CITS service at a GM, regional and national level. ### Applicant requirements 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 ### Experince **Essential** - Previous experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist or highly specialist psychotherapist in the NHS - Highly specialist experience of delivering trauma focused therapy to a range of clients **Desirable** - Experience of the application of psychological approaches in different cultural contexts ### Knowledge **Essential** - Highly specialised knowledge of assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention around mental health & trauma **Desirable** - Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of organisational development and dynamics ### Qualification **Essential** - Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology and registration with the Health Professions Council OR Core professional qualification (eg, RMN, social worker) plus Accredited in NICE approved psychological intervention (eg CBT, EMDR) OR BABCP accredited CBT/therapist with additional training in for example EMDR/DBT **Desirable** - Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 151.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10531865) - [person specification (pdf, 85.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10531866) - [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. - 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