Clinical Psychologist

Come and join our fantastic Eating Disorder Service! This is a great opportunity to develop your skills in community Eating Disorders. You will be supported by a highly experienced Psychologist and other members of the team. We are a community based service, supporting people to deal with the impact of an eating disorder (ED). The Bolton team is developing and works closely with the local area and the wider Cheshire and Wirral Partnership locality.

On-going continuing professional development is not only supported but encouraged with practitioners supported to develop their own interests within eating disorders. This post is part time 22.5 hours per week.

To provide psychological interventions to people who have an ED. The post involves working in the community and will require occasional travel across all sites. We are looking for a confident, friendly individual who has experience of working with people with an ED or a passion to work with this client group and the drive to support them in managing their difficulties.

You will be required to provide psychological assessment and interventions. The successful candidate will have experience in working within a multidisciplinary setting . They will have experience in delivering individual therapy that is adapted to the needs of people with an ED, and helping non-psychology team members work with people who have experienced an ED through consultation and joint working.

The role involves blended working, including face to face sessions, remote sessions via telephone and video.

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.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role. Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you'll find something to suit you at CWP.

• Post-g raduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or
• HPC Registered

• Additional Psychotherapy qualification relevant to working with clients with complex psychological and mental health difficulties

• Skills in conducting complex psychological assessment and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Skills in completing neuropsychological assessments, interpretation of results, and ability to communicate these sensitively as appropriate
• 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 supervision training/qualification
• Experience of supervising Assistant Psychologists, other psychological practitioners and/or MDT colleagues in psychological approaches

• Experience of working as a clinical psychologist therapeutically with adult clients with varied complex, psychological and mental health difficulties
• Experience of working within muliti-professional teams
• Experience of engaging and sustaining work with ambivalent clients
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for…