Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 241-41CS-26
- Employer
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Lever Health centre,
- Town
- Bolton
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Band 8A Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Clinical Health Psychology
Specialist Clinical Psychologist Band 8a(Heart Failure, Young Person Diabetes, General health)
We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified clinical psychologist with appropriate experience to join the existing clinical health psychology team at Royal Bolton Hospital. The clinical health psychology service is a small and supportive team working into a number of different specialities within the Trust, with well-established links to North West clinical psychology training courses.
As a Specialist psychologist, you will provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention, advice and consultation to non-psychological colleagues, across heart failure/cardiac care, young person’s diabetes care and general medicine. You will provide specialised assessments and interventions in these multi-disciplinary settings, including wards and medical out-patient clinics. You will provide teaching, training and supervision of members of the multidisciplinary team in order to improve psychological input. In addition to working within the services, you will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients within specialisms.
The post is full time and permanent. Flexible working is supported wherever possible, including the opportunity for some remote working.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the clinical health psychology team and the heart failure/cardiac care, young person’s diabetes care and general medicine MDT.
To provide assessment and intervention to patients with cardiac conditions, young person diabetes and general health problems.
To provide advice and consultation to MDT colleagues and medical teams.
To promote psychological thinking with non-psychology colleagues.
To participate in teaching, training, audit, and service development.
To provide clinical supervision to psychology and non-psychology colleagues (where appropriate).
Working for our organisation
Would you like to develop your skills and experience in Clinical Health Psychology? We are looking to welcome a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to our Clinical Health Psychology Service at Royal Bolton Hospital. We are a friendly and supportive team of psychologists who provide specialist input for people with a range of physical health conditions using approaches including ACT, CBT, CFT & EMDR. You will have the opportunity to work with cardiac, gastroenterology, dermatology, oncology and palliative care referrals as well as provide input to the MDT for heart failure/cardiac, and young persons diabetes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of Cardiac patients in the agreed locality based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, multidisciplinary case conferences, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient's care.
2. When appropriate to provide neuropsychological assessments which will require the skilled manipulation of testing materials in order to provide measures of patient's cognitive functioning and inform decisions regarding their future treatment.
3. To undertake assessments and therapeutic work that is emotionally demanding, including difficulties such as anxiety, depression, trauma, quality of life, disfigurement, disease progression and concerns about end of life.
4. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's mental and physical health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
5. To contribute specialist knowledge of psychological approaches to the management of physical health conditions within the HF team and Diabetes Service .
6. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and families, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
7. To contribute to the HF rehabilitation education programme.
8. 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.
9. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans. Where appropriate, to co-ordinate care for patients involving arranging activities, directing input, and meetings with other professionals and agencies.
10. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patient's formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. In particular, to offer specialised advice regarding the psychological management and treatment of individuals with cardiac conditions and Diabetes.
11. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group.
12. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
13. To communicate, both verbally and in writing, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multidisciplinary care.
14. To make decisions about formulation, treatment and management regarding patients and the service in general where there may be disagreement amongst stakeholders, tension over appropriate action and where different service elements have differing priorities and/or philosophies in relation to issue in question.
15. To contribute to the work of the multi-disciplinary, multi-agency teams and participate in appropriate meetings, e.g. team meetings and case discussions, when possible. This will include participating in the young persons’ diabetes MDT clinic.
16. To provide assessment and therapy to patients on the “general health” waiting list. These specialities can include cancer, palliative, gastroenterology and Dermatology.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate Doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Completion of specialist post-qualification courses in psychological theories and clinical approaches to physical health
Desirable criteria
- Completion of clinical supervision training as provided by doctoral training courses for the supervision of psychology doctoral trainee placements.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of NHS care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the life span, with a wide variety of presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. To include specialist experience in the psychological assessment, management and treatment of physical health conditions.
- Experience in the application of clinical psychology approaches in different clinical and medical settings (inpatient & outpatient).
- Experience in the application of clinical psychology approaches in different clinical and medical settings (inpatient & outpatient).
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience working wiExperience working with Cardiac conditions e.g. HF, myocardial infarction.th persistent pain.
- Experience of working with diabetes.
- Experience of working with adolescents (16yrs-24yrs)
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in providing consultation, supervision and training to other professional and non-professional groups on an individual patient and a service-level basis.
- To utilise specialist skills in psychological approaches to physical health in individual, group and consultation settings
- Driving licence & ability to meet any travel requirements of the post.
- Capacity to plan and prioritise many competing complex ongoing tasks including patient contacts, research activity, supervision of psychology and non-psychology staff, service development activities and representation of service. Skills in co-ordinating, chairing and arranging multidisciplinary meetings and activity in relation to patient care and other activities.
Other
Essential criteria
- Capacity to cope with sitting in constrained position for up to 70% of working hours and capacity to attend medical wards.
- Capacity for intense concentration while delivering highly complex clinical interventions during clinical contact
- Must be capable of working independently and autonomously taking full responsibility for own clinical decisions and interventions
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
- Dr Claire Rehan
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01204 390045
- Additional information
Steven Lowe, Operational Business manager
01204 462502
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