This role provides an exciting opportunity for a newly or recently qualified HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist to progress their career through a structured and supported preceptorship scheme. Change Grow Lives Preceptorship Process provides the opportunity for this role to demonstrate competence and confidence across a wide range of domains as you become more established in your career, with a defined pathway through to a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist post. This is covered under a separate job description, but successful completion of the internal preceptorship process will result in you moving to that higher grade within your existing service. Change Grow Live will enable you to further develop your skills and provide ongoing opportunities for professional development.
We would welcome applications from trainee Practitioner Psychologists due to complete training in 2025, as well as more experienced Practitioner Psychologists.
It is anticipated that the preceptorship process is achievable within 18 months 3 years, dependent on the experience of the successful candidate.
Location covering a service/s Blackpool
- Based from a local delivery hub Blackpool
- Contracted Hours 37.5 hours
- Category Clinical/Managerial
- Type of contract Permanent - with opportunity to progress upon formally assessed completion of an approximate two-year preceptorship programme
- Provide focused support to deliver against the role primary functions as listed above these will lead all delivery and activity and should be considered the primary role specific responsibilities ahead of all others noted.
- As part of the local service team, provide clinical leadership; supporting your own services development to deliver psychology, psychosocial therapy and talking therapies, and linkage to relevant local pathways for support.
- Work as a professional registered within professional guidelines.
- Provide clinical leadership and supervision within the sphere of your professional expertise.
- Provide evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions with due regard to issues of equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Actively promote integrated health/care professional working internally and externally.
- Facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture.
- Deliver regular monthly reflective practice, team formulations and other psychologically informed approaches for clinical and non-clinical teams.
- Take an active interest in working parties and groups within the wider service to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines.
- Support delivery and understanding of an effective, trauma-informed psychology provision within your service, supporting MDT understanding of evidence based/evidence-informed provision.
- Lead the more junior psychological professionals within your service
Believe in people
At Change Grow Live, above all else we believe in people. It's the one thing that acts as a foundation for all our work.
If you use our services: we understand what you're going through. We won't judge. We believe you can make positive changes in your life.
If you work or volunteer for us: we believe in your potential. We believe you can do brilliant, life-changing work.
Our mission and vision
Our mission is to help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
The vision we're working towards is to develop, deliver and share a whole person approach that changes society.
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work.
The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.