Principal Clinical Psychologist

Main area Principal Clinical Psychologist Grade Band 8b Contract Fixed term: 12 months (to cover current postholder) Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week) Job
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Site Older Adult CMHT and Memory Service Upton Lea Resource Centre Bowmere Hospital Liverpool Road Chester CH2 1BQ
Town Chester Salary £66,582 - £77,368 £ 66,582 - £77,368 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 06/09/2026 23:59

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.

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.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
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