Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 23.38 hours per week (The hours could be worked over 3 longer days or 4 shorter days.)
- Job ref
- 311-HYM787-26
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springleigh Clinic
- Town
- Stalybridge
- Salary
- £49,387 - £64,750 We would accept a band 8a or a 7 to 8a preceptorship
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/07/2026
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
Tameside and Glossop Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is based in Stalybridge, Tameside. We are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including Education, Children’s Social Care (CSC) and Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organizations, and as a locality well on the way to being fully aligned to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are committed to supporting our staff in their development with great access to CPD opportunities, a robust clinical and management supervision structure, and access to an in-house training programme covering key areas of clinical practice as part of your induction.
T&G CAMHS is extremely proud to be a forward-thinking service with a long history of innovative service development. Examples include being home to the long-established Early Attachment Service (now Parent Infant Mental Health Service; PIMHS) which is a nationally recognised, specialist under 5 service. Recent investment has also supported the establishment of a highly innovative relationship-focussed and trauma-informed therapeutic service (The Family Intervention and Therapy Service; FITS) working in partnership with Children’s Social Care at all levels of the Early Help/Child in Need/ Child Protection Framework.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit a band 8a (or band 7 preceptorship into 8a) Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologists into our service. This is an exciting opportunity to work in Core CAMHS, potentially across a range of pathways, supporting the development of both generic and specialist clinical psychology skills.
We would be keen to hear from applicants who would be interested in a preceptorship post starting on a band 7 with a move to 8a after a period of experience and development in the post, which is supported by a Trust-level framework and process. This would suit newly or recently qualified clinical psychologists. We would also love to hear from those looking for an 8a post as well.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To ensure the systematic provision of high-quality clinical psychology input to CAMHS. To undertake direct assessment and intervention with our children, young people and their families and to supervise that provided by other staff within the multi-disciplinary team. To contribute to the provision of risk assessment and management as part of the core CAMHS duty offer. To offer training and consultation both internally and externally to our partner agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. To utilise skills for audit, service evaluation and service development as appropriate.
Registration with the HCPC and previous CAMHS experience is essential for this role. The successful candidate will need to be an excellent communicator and enjoy team and multi-disciplinary working. The post potentially involves working in various locations so the ability to travel across Tameside is essential.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC registered (or eligibility and commitment to be registered before start date in position)
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Specialist training in therapeutic work with children, young people and families.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist (with demonstrable experience at a specialist level).
- Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working with families and carers
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care. • Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings. • Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. • Application Form • Interview AFC 11/03/19 JME-143-19 Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist Band 8a clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and / or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for children and young people
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric testing, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to work flexibly including some evenings and occasional weekends
Work Related Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Dr Samantha Hartley (Sam).
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 716 3600
- Additional information
We welcome people getting in touch for an informal discussion.
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
- Telephone
- 01617163181
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