Job summary
- Main area
- ENT
- Grade
- Band 8B
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-7145265
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free Hospital
- Town
- Hampstead
- Salary
- £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inclusive of HCAS ( pro rata )
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8B Principle Practitioner Psychologist - ENT Speciality
Band 8B
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
The post holder will manage and lead the specialist psychology service for ENT patients under the care of the Royal Free London NHS Trust, consistent with the World Class Care values and objectives of the Trust including the clinical supervision and day-to-day management (line management) of any psychological staff in this specialist service (e.g trainee clinical or counselling psychologists).
To directly provide a psychology service to ENT patients; providing highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and treatments, complex risk assessments and advice on care (where psychological aspects are relevant), and offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
1.To provide expert knowledge and guidance regarding psychological issues relating to care of people under the care of the ENT speciality.
2.To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of ENT patients, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and other professionals involved in a patient’s care.
3.To formulate plans for psychological treatment and/or management, drawing on appropriate conceptual frameworks and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the range of care settings and physical health problems.
4.To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical processes and physical ill-health or cognitive changes.
5.To be responsible for implementing or supporting access to a range of psychological interventions for individuals, or groups of patients, where psychological distress, mental health co-morbidities or cognitive functioning are impacting engagement with care and rehabilitation or affecting relationships with the care system.
6.To ensure that psychological interventions management strategies contribute to a coherent optimal package of care.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training (or it’s equivalent) in clinical counselling or health psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
- HCPC registration and eligibility for Practitioner Psychologist status
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Evidence of postqualification supervised clinical experience in therapeutic intervention and management of adults with long-term physical health problems using assessment and intervention techniques at a specialist level.
- Post-qualification experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments.
- Post-qualification experience of working with adults with longterm physical health problems, delivering interventions to individuals, groups and/or families
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of other qualified Clinical Psychologists and other professional disciplines
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience in leading case conferences or family meetings
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Knowledge of at least two relevant theoretical models and psychological interventions relevant to the care of adults with long-term physical health problems
- Highly skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and quantitative data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the British Psychological Society/HCPC
- Formal training and/or experience in supervision of other psychologists.
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable criteria
- Familiarity with SPSS databases and statistical package
- Experience in service development, leadership and management.
Personal Qualities & Attribute
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
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 Esther Hansen
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Telephone number
- 020 7472 6247
- Additional information
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Free Hospital
Dept of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Pond Street, London NW3 2QGTel: 020 7472 6247
Internal extension: 35556
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