Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7 (Preceptorship) or 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term 12 month contract from August 2025)
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 383-SPE-5870-25
- Employer
- Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bayheath House, Chesterfield S40 1JF
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Salary
- Salary dependent on experience - either 7 or 8a
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist Band 7-8a or 8a
NHS AfC: Band 7 (Preceptorship) or 8a
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
Job overview
Would you like to work alongside other friendly, enthusiastic and supportive psychological therapists in Adult Community Mental Health in Chesterfield in Derbyshire? We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist, Band 7 (Preceptorship) or 8a, depending on experience with progression by appraisal.
Our team of Psychologists & Psychological therapists are passionate about developing services that create meaningful change based on lived experience, so that people flourish, feel connected and empowered to pursue their aspirations.
We have an 0.4wte 12 months fixed term contract from August 2025, due to a member of staff taking a career break. We warmly welcome enquiries for a chat about options and your interests.
Please state which Banding you are applying for in ‘Supporting Information’.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to provide individual and group clinical work jointly with your colleagues. You will also promote psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multi-disciplinary practitioners, the wider organisation and contribute to service development.
We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, for example, by access to training resources to support your work. We offer specialist clinical supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups e.g. CFT, complex trauma and dissociation supervision.
Working in our friendly Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, you will be well supported in CPD opportunities. Our team report feeling valued and supported working in a service focused on staff well-being and development, and service transformation.
Working for our organisation
You will be based in the Chesterfield Adult CMHT, joining a dynamic group of over 260 staff in our Directorate of Psychology & Psychological Therapies. We are committed to our compassionate framework within which your development and well-being will be nurtured. You will be joining us at a time of exciting, innovative and values based transformation as we develop and progress our services to deliver place based and needs led integrated care across our localities, with trauma informed and trauma sensitive practice at the forefront of these developments.
This is an exciting transformational time for us in developing our services with our focus on ‘Living Well’ Community Mental Health Framework changes and developing trauma-informed care in our CMHTs: transformation movements with collaboration, lived experience and compassionate relationships at their core and in which Psychological Services have a pivotal role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post–graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the B.P.S., and giving eligibility for Chartered status of B.P.S.
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
- Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification training in a therapy model
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with clients with a range of mental health problems in a broad range of settings
Desirable criteria
- Expertise and interest in a specialist area relevant to adult mental health
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Sabin-Farrell
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Recruitment Team
Kingsway Hospital
- Telephone
- 01332 564856 option 1, option 1
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