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Are you an experienced Senior Psychologist looking for a new challenge in a rewarding environment, where you can make a real difference? If so, then join the team at Gateway Recovery Centre in Widnes, Cheshire as a Lead Psychologist and enjoy support from a regional network of Psychologists as you flourish in your career.

With experience from the NHS or the private sector as a Senior or Lead Psychologist, you will carry a caseload that includes assessing service users with complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatment within mental health care services.

What You Will Be Doing

You will work 37.5 hours a week as the Lead Psychologist for a service for men and women with complex mental health needs.

As a Lead Psychologist, you will be responsible for the psychological provision of the hospital, including individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working, and risk assessments. You'll lead the psychology department in providing a variety of therapeutic approaches to service users, including CBT and third-wave therapies, EMDR, and DBT, and will provide guidance, support and supervision to your team of Psychologists, therapists, Assistant Psychologists, and Trainee Psychologists, including responsibility for mentoring and their training (with support from the Learning & Development Team). You will also work as part of MDTs, supporting the clinical teams in the care provision of service users across the hospital.

There is a strong emphasis on teamwork, supervision and CPD, with support from a regional network of Psychologists.

As a Lead Psychologist You Will Be

• Responsible for the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to service users with complex and contentious mental health conditions, in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team and ensure that the service users' engagement in their care pathway.
• Supporting clinical team working, including both direct and indirect interventions, such as, delivery of staff training programmes.
• Supporting the clinical team and area of service in developing new initiatives and ways of working.
• Taking a key role in psychology service developments, providing an evidence-based approach to new clinical initiatives.
• Undertaking risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and providing highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment/management.
• Maximising current opportunities to make improvements to the service area.
• Leading the recruitment of psychology staff.
• Attending and contributing to Clinical Leads and Hospital Governance Meetings
• Supporting in the development and implementation of policies that enhance staff safety and risk management.
• Working with internal and external agencies in order to enhance treatment pathways for service users.
  
  

To Be Successful As a Lead Psychologist, You'll Have

• To be registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Successful completion of a Doctorate level qualification in applied psychology either through the British Psychological Society or a recognised training body, enabling registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Proficiency in assessing, formulating, and working therapeutically with service users.
• Ability to identify and proactively resolve problems and challenges within the service.
• Experience in supervising others, including junior and sernior members of the psychology team.
• High level knowledge and expertise in working with trauma
• Experience in working with people with complex mental health and social needs that are relevant to the population in the service area.
• Proficiency in psychological assessments and formulation skills and an aptitude for learning new assessment methods
• Competency in cognitive functioning/management tools and formulation
• Experience implementing a range of highly specialist psychological assessments and therapies.
• Experience in risk assessments, including violence and sexual risk assessments, such as HCR-20 or RSVP assessments.
  
  

Where You Will Be Working

Location: Bennett's Lane, Widnes, Warrington, WA8 0GT

The service is commutable from Preston, Blackburn, Rochdale, Bolton, Manchester, Stockport, Warrington, Cheshire, Liverpool

Requirements

You will be working at the Gateway Recovery Centre, a state-of-the-art facility which provides care for men and women with complex mental health requirements. The hospital is split into four distinct areas:

• Male Autism Service for the challenging and complex needs of adults with Autism and Asperger's syndrome
• Assessment and rehabilitation for women with complex mental health needs and personality difficulties
• Specialist inpatient service for older men with complex mental health and physical health needs.
• Low secure care setting for men with a mental illness with or without personality disorder/mild LD
  
  

You will be working alongside the team with the aim to improve the mental health and wellbeing of service users and to help them develop and maintain healthy relationships with others. Gateway Recovery Centre will work to reduce risk behaviours associated with mental health conditions so that our patients can ultimately live successful and fulfilling lives within the community.

What You Will Get

• Annual salary of up to £70,000 to £75,000
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) - plus your birthday off!
• Flexible working opportunities considered
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training with access to regular clinical supervision, continuous training opportunities, shape and lead service developmentPension con