Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - No Wrong Door / CAMHS

Employer: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Rochdale, United Kingdom (Our Place, Bridgefold Lodge)
Reference: 311-HYM790-26
Contact: Janet Teshola, Consultant Clinical Psychologist | janet.teshola1@nhs.net | 01706 676000
Closing Date: July 3, 2026

Grade: NHS AfC Band 8a
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary: £57,528 – £64,750 per annum

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.

Main Duties:
• Offer expert consultation and training to partner agencies and other professionals within Our Place
• Provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients, providing specialist assessment and therapy (a range of therapeutic approaches)
• Work with families and young people within their own homes and those within the specialist internal residential service
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of service policies and procedures
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development
• Take the lead in the development of new areas of service delivery
• Provide supervision to qualified and pre-qualified staff
• Specialist therapy in a range of modalities: CBT, DBT, psycho-dynamically informed psychotherapies, systemic or relational/dyadic therapies
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients

Essential Criteria:
• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS
• HCPC registration as a clinical psychologist with Chartered Status
• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a specialist level
• Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of working with families and carers
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Use of a car or access to mobility to travel across the Trust footprint

Multi-agency staffing includes children's services, clinical psychology, speech and language therapy to provide a wraparound service to children and families.