Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements: 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working independently and liaising with other healthcare workers

Desirable

• Experience of working with service users with complex, risky presentations and/or within a psychological service setting
• Experience of using assessment skills
• Experience of delivering psychologically informed, time limited interventions

Knowledge

Essential

• An understanding of psychology applied to mental health care.

Desirable

• Knowledge of engagement approaches and clinical assessment skills required for presentations within eating disorders

Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in an appropriate way
• Ability to engage and build therapeutic relationships
• An ability to communicate effectively with other members of the multidisciplinary team and wider stakeholders
• High levels of ability to organise time and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines

Desirable

• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to the service context, and in understanding a client's presentation

Qualifications

Essential

• An upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology with entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

Desirable

• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with people with mental health problems

Desirable

• Experience of working with people who have experience an eating disorder

Knowledge

Essential

• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.

Desirable

• Knowledge of engagement approaches and clinical assessment skills required for presentations within eating disorders

Skills

Essential

• High level of communication skills both written and verbal, including in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Eating Disorder Service The Willows Health Centre

The Willows Lord's Av

Salford

M5 5JR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)