# Principal Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinical-psychologist/529231f8-b7ff-4805-a1e3-b601df8c5f61 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinical-psychologist/529231f8-b7ff-4805-a1e3-b601df8c5f61.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Older Adult CMHT and Memory Service Upton Lea Resource Centre Bowmere Hospital Liverpool Road Chester CH2 1BQ - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Salary:** £66582.00 to £77368.00 - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (to cover current postholder) - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-18T09:48:41.114Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8182421 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8182421?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cwp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Older Adult Community Mental Health Team and Memory Service – West - Maternity Cover 12 month fixed term post: Principal Clinical Psychologist Band 8b - 1 x 1.0 wte An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 12 month fixed term maternity cover post within the older adult CMHT and memory service covering West Cheshire (Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Northwich, and rural areas), with a base in Chester. CWP community mental health services are multi-disciplinary teams aiming to provide person centred, psychologically and trauma informed models of care. The memory service works closely alongside the older adult CMHT to provide an assessment and diagnosis service for dementia. Psychology has been integrated and is valued within the multi-disciplinary team, providing specialist assessment and interventions, as well as contributing to the clinical thinking and decision making of the teams. Psychological skills are also applied to delivering training, staff wellbeing initiatives and service development projects. We would like to recruit an experienced psychologist that will join an expanding older adult psychology workforce. You will support the development of a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner in your team. You will meet regularly with other senior psychologists throughout the Trust and an older adult psychology specialty group to ensure equitable service delivery. ### Main duties of the job The post-holder will join a supportive multi-disciplinary team who are passionate about working with older adults. The post holder will be responsible for providing assessments (including neuropsychological if required), formulations, and therapeutic interventions (both individually and in group format) to people with complex psychological and mental health difficulties. Psychology also provides specialist neuropsychological assessment to inform MDT decisions within the memory service. The post holder will support the wider team to develop psychological understandings of people’s difficulties through consultation, supervision, and training. Based near the historic Roman city of Chester, the service has good links with the three local universities (Liverpool, Lancaster, and Manchester) providing opportunity to support trainees with research projects/audits and input into the teaching programmes. The post holder will be expected to take a lead in service evaluations and ensure high standards of clinical effectiveness and clinical governance. The service currently offers flexible working with a mixture of both remote and face to face encouraged. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role. At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values. CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it. Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours. An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or by calling 01244 393100. If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes. The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies. New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon! ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working as a clinical psychologist therapeutically with older adult clients with varied complex, psychological and mental health difficulties. - Experience of working within uni and muliti-professional teams. - Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients. - Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care, - Experience of providing teaching and training. **Desirable** - Experience of liaison with other health professionals. - Evidence of contributing to policy and service development. - Experience of managing others. ### Trust values **Essential** - Demonstrate alignment with Trust Values (6 C’s: Commitment, Communication, Care, Courage, Compassion, Competency) ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) - HCPC registration - Additional Psychotherapy qualification relevant to working with older adult clients with complex psychological and mental health difficulties **Desirable** - Post graduate diploma in clinical neuropsychology ### Knowledge and Expertise **Essential** - Knowledge of and skills in working with older people presenting with longstanding and complex and specialist needs. - Knowledge of and skills in conducting complex psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. - Skills in completing neuropsychological and psychometric assesssments, interpreting and reporting the results, and communicating this complex information sensitively and clearly. - Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex and /or clinically sensitive information to clients and professional colleagues within and outside the NHS. - Evidence of continuing professional development. - Skills in providing Consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups. - Evidence of supervisor training/qualification. - Experience of supervising Assistant Psychologists, other psychological practitioners and/or MDT colleagues in psychological approaches - Experience of research, audit/service evaluation. **Desirable** - Ability to apply psychological knowledge creatively in developing new initiatives - Knowledge of legislation in relation to the older adult population. - Formal leadership/management training. ## Documents - [risk form (pdf, 610.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10496883) - [trust profile (pdf, 521.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2737) - [privacy notice (pdf, 177.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1515) - [application guide (pdf, 28.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2738) - [job description and ps (pdf, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10485873) - [dbs update service applicant guide (pdf, 228.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=623) - [recruitment of ex-offenders policy (pdf, 167.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=618) ## 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.