psychologist Cheadle Hulme, England
Job description
Qualified Clinical Psychologist Band 7
We’d love you to join us in developing the Clinical Psychology service for people with learning disabilities in the richly diverse and vibrant city of Manchester. The Community Adult Learning Disability service is passionate about ensuring the best quality of life for all the people we support by delivering high quality, effective compassionate care that recognises the individuality and value that each person has.
If you are committed to the rights and well-being of people with learning disabilities and are able to demonstrate a high level of professionalism and commitment to successful multi-disciplinary working, this could be the role for you. Self-awareness and excellent communication skills are critical to us, as you’ll be instrumental in delivering high quality care and psychological support to the people we support.
You will join a supportive and friendly team. Our clinical psychologists are highly valued by our team managers, colleagues and the people we support as an integral part of CALDS. We are a truly multi-disciplinary service, and our clinical psychologists value the expertise and support offered by working closely with colleagues from other professional disciplines.
We are developing and investing in our psychology service and the role we play in supporting people with learning disabilities and their families; come and join us and help us shape the future together. We are committed to our specialist dementia work, supporting people with highly complex behaviour that challenges, specialist risk assessment and developing the offer of a range of psychological therapies.
We want our teams to lead enjoyable and fulfilling work lives and genuinely believe the professional development of our team is crucial, both for you as a professional and to meet the needs of the people we serve. We are committed to developing our teams and individuals through high quality supervision and support and by offering rewarding placements to clinical psychology trainees from local doctoral training programmes. Speak to us for a personalised discussion about how we can support your professional development.
Our roles are based in the three multidisciplinary Community Learning Disability Teams across the city. We promote flexibility and are happy to support different working hours/ patterns, please speak to us if you’d like further information about how we can support you to work flexibly.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
