We are looking for a motivated Highly Specialist psychologist to join our multi-agency No Wrong Door team ( Our Place ) in Rochdale. Our Place provides an integrated service and approach to supporting young people with complex needs who are on the edge of care or who are cared for. The model combines a defined culture and practice with a range of services, support and accommodation options, and specialists work together through a shared practice framework. At the heart of the model is a residential Hub, providing short-term placements and outreach support. Multi-agency staffing includes children’s services, clinical psychology, speech and language therapy to provide a wraparound service to children and families.
Job summary:
To offer expert consultation and training to partner agencies and other professionals within Our Place.
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To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients of Our Place, providing specialist assessment and therapy (which may include a range of therapeutic approaches).
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To work with families and young people within their own homes and those within the specialist internal residential service.
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To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of service policies and procedures.
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To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development
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To take the lead in the development of new areas of service delivery.
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To provide supervision to qualified and pre-qualified staff.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources
To formulate and implements plans for psychological treatment and/or management of young people's mental health problems
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups
To provide specialist psychologically informed advice, guidance, supervision and consultation to other professionals.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professionals and team members on risk assessment and risk management
To plan individual client care, ensuring the provision of a multidisciplinary/ multi-agency care package appropriate for the client’s needs. To monitor progress during the course of multidisciplinary interventions
To offer specialist therapy in a range of therapeutic modalities, for example CBT, DBT, psycho-dynamically informed psychotherapies, systemic or relational/ dyadic therapies
To take the lead in developing discrete areas of service, including services for complex and high risk adolescents, specifically for young people under the care of No Wrong Door/ Our Place
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
For additional details regarding the post, please see detailed job description and person specification.
