Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist - Specialist Weight Management Service
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-INNER-10730
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Colville Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/05/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist - Specialist Weight Management Service
Band 8a
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 1.0 wte suitably qualified clinical psychologist to join the Specialist Weight Management Service due to current team member relocating.
The successful post-holder will work within a multidisciplinary team which has input from dietitians, physiotherapy and a physician. The psychologist will be responsible for the provision and further development of individual and group psychological interventions for clients who have severe and complex obesity.
The service is community-based and will involve working in a number of different health centres across the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. You will form an integral part of the team and to ensure the needs of the service user are met. You may be required to deliver group interventions or clinics in the evening with the rest of the team. We are looking for a flexible, independent individual who is interested in service development.
The postholder will be based within the Specialist Weight Management Service but clinical supervision will be provided by an experienced psychologist to ensure professional support and development is provided. We are keen to hear from applicants who have worked in health psychology, weight management or eating disorder services.
The postholder will need to demonstrate knowledge of behaviour change models in addition to expertise in delivering evidence based treatments, in particular cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients of clinical health psychology, across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To provide support and training to other HCP’s.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to clinical health psychology based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems and psychological aspects of physical morbidity, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Specific research qualification in research methodology, over and above clinical qualification, at a minimum of masters level.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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
- Lucy Perrow
- Job title
- Clinical Lead - Obesity Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
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