Principal Clinical Psychologist Learning Disabilities

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Principal Clinical Psychologist Learning Disabilities NHS AfC: Band 8b Main area Principal Clinical Psychologist for Learning Disabilities and neurodiversity. Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b. Contract: Permanent. Hours: Part time - 18.5 hours per week. Job ref 311-F891-26.

Site Springleigh Clinic, Town Stalybridge. Salary £64,455 - £74,896 per annum. Salary period Yearly. Closing 09/02/:59. Interview date 26/03/2026.

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our Pennine Care People.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our CAMHS service in Tameside and Glossop. The CAMHS service is a community team offering a service to children and young people aged 5-18.

The role includes:

• Service improvements
• Development and delivery of training
• Conducting research, audit, and evaluation
• Development of treatment pathways
• Consultation and intervention to CYP in the team
• Multi-agency working
• Clinical supervision

Main duties of the job The postholder will provide opportunities for support, clinical leadership, and guidance across the multi-disciplinary teams with a view to supporting evidence-based practice, a culture of reflection and learning; and to play a key role in supporting the well-being of the workforce. The postholder will carry a caseload determined via clinical supervision and including cases of significant risk and acuity.

The post holder will work to support the wider clinical activities of the clinical psychology workforce within the team and provide cover and support across the pathways in the event of staff absence. The post holder may be expected to provide clinical supervision duties to both qualified and unqualified psychologists. The post holder will also play an active role in the promotion of psychology.

Working for our organisation Pennine Care is a Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Foundation Trust providing a wide range of care within the community and inpatient services across a large geographical footprint across Greater Manchester.

The CAMHS Care Hub sits within the Specialist Network across 5 localities and consists of teams that are friendly, caring and compassionate and strive to deliver outstanding care and treatment to service users. Our services have a strong multidisciplinary approach consisting of multiple professionals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities To provide clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology for the CAMHS team. To ensure the provision of a high-quality clinical psychology pathway. To provide highly specialised psychological assessment whilst offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to other colleagues and different professional groups. To contribute to research, audit, policy, and service development. To propose and implement policy changes within the areas served. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the Trust's policies and procedures. To provide clinical supervision and consultation to individuals and groups of staff across the learning disability care hub, including psychology staff. To provide support and cover for the provision of psychology services across the team. To play an active role in the promotion of psychology. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To develop and engage in pathway development, ensuring the application of trauma-informed models of care, using least restrictive practice.

Clinical: To lead on care planning for service users in receipt of psychology and engage with their families and carers. To undertake highly specialist psychological assessments based on the appropriate use and interpretation of complex data from various sources. To undertake clinical duties as necessary to support the psychology offer within the CAMHS team. To develop psychological formulations of complex difficulties to inform the team's understanding, treatment, and management of these difficulties; discharge planning; and when appropriate recommendations for further assessment and intervention after discharge. To provide appropriate structured psychological interventions and psychological therapies. To support the development and delivery of therapeutic, psychoeducational or skills development groups as needed. To harness and support the development of psychosocial skills of other team members by providing clinical supervision, consultation, training and liaison work. To develop and maintain appropriate psychosocial supervision frameworks. To contribute to risk assessment and risk management by providing training and consultation to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To promote team working and constructive relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues. To collaborate with the multi-disciplinary teams across the care hub on the development of best practice. To promote a trauma-informed model of care across the care hub. To provide support, leadership and containment for colleagues working across the care hub. To consider and proactively support staff's wellbeing, including facilitation of debriefs after incidents and reflective practice sessions as needed.

Teaching, Training, and Supervision: To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies, and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies. To gain highly specialised/extended expertise in particular psychological approaches and/or with client groups and/or in management through further specialist supervision and experience. To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical line management supervision to psychology staff working in the unit and the wider care hub. To provide advice, consultation, training, and clinical supervision to other professionals for their provision of psychologically informed assessment and psychologically based interventions. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology as appropriate. To maintain and develop skills in pre- and post-graduate training. To contribute to personal development / performance reviews for psychology staff across the care hub. To actively participate in continuing professional development involving a variety of activities and to maintain up-to-date CPD records.

Management, Recruitment, Policy, and Service Development: To participate as a senior clinician in developing a high-quality, responsive and accessible service for the care hub including advising management on psychological and organizational matters. To exercise responsibility for managing psychological resources, whether in the form of other qualified and unqualified staff, or psychological materials. To oversee governance of psychological practice within the team. To participate in staff recruitment as appropriate.

Research and Service Evaluation: To take the psychology lead in evaluating and developing the team's clinical practice through research, service evaluation and audit, and to ensure incorporation of psychological frameworks for high-quality care. To use theory and evidence-based literature to support practice, undertake research, and provide research advice to staff. To initiate project management with the care hub Project Manager, including complex audit and service evaluation to improve services.

Service User, Carer and Stakeholder Involvement: To promote a person-centred service philosophy for service users and carers, ensuring involvement in assessment and care planning. Promote involvement in staff recruitment and training, and in evaluation and development of the service.

Person specification Education / Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Current registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
• Completion of further post-qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT, etc.)

Experience

• Experience of clinical leadership within a previous role
• Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision to psychologists, psychological therapists or other core health professions
• Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/ training on clinical interventions
• Demonstrable experience of managing demand for psychological services and supporting other professionals in their provision of direct psychosocial work

Knowledge

• Knowledge of national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives related to psychological therapies for people with a Learning Disability
• Knowledge of safeguarding adults frameworks and processes
• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Knowledge of national/local service drivers for transformation within Learning Disability services
• Evidence of post-qualification CPD as recommended by the BPS or other body
• Up-to-date knowledge of evidence-based psychological practices for adults with a Learning Disability
• Awareness of trauma-informed care principles
• Knowledge of specialised psychological therapies for adults with a Learning Disability
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