Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Part time - two days a week.
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (Per annum pro rata)
- Job ref
- 363-TH6273566
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal London Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 per annum pro rata Inc HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specilaist Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Are you a creative problem solver, who enjoys working with both patients and systems? Would you thrive in a service that welcomes innovation, with greater freedom to truly focus on client need, to identify and work with the unmet needs of some of our most marginalised patients?
We are looking to recruit an 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist to our High Intensity User Team (HIUT) within the Liaison Team at Royal London Hospital. Our friendly supportive team aims to enhance management and treatment of frequent attenders to Royal London Hospital's A&E. We use flexible, creative and person-centered approaches, resulting in a stimulating working environment with lots of multiagency working and opportunities for teaching, consultation and leadership.
Main duties of the job
Main duties
- 1:1 client work - engagement, formulation, treatment
- Attending and contributing to fortnightly multiagency meeting with wider service stakeholders to discuss specific clients
- Understanding and negotiating with wider systems to help support clients' needs to be met in more appropriate ways
- Supporting a change in narrative around these clients, enhancing hope within the system network
- Systems work with clients' extended service network: consultation, leadership, arranging and participating in professionals meetings
- Joining in regular discussion with HIUT staff to support their work
- Providing teaching and training to local stakeholders about our work and approaches
- Supervising the Assistant Psychologist, including (with the service lead) overseeing their work maintaining the service evaluation database
- Supervising a Clinical Psychology Trainee (third year, year long placements)
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details and description of this post, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Registered with Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees.
Desirable criteria
- Further training in brief interventions (ACT, CBT, Solution focused therapy).
- Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through continous professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a specialist clinical psychologist in a health setting.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with complex and vulnerable patient groups e.g. drug and alcohol services, homeless, personality disorder.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care/ health services
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult - to - treat groups (e.g. chronic pain, complex needs, self-harm, personality disorder psychosis, dual diagnosis, persons with additional disabilities, long term health conditions).
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies – preferably CBT and one other. Knowledge of the academic literature of the specialism.
- Highly-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.
- Ability to support and co-ordinate the work of psychology colleagues within the team/service.
Desirable criteria
- Highly-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
- Highly-developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance.
- Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems.
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
- Katie Fifield
- Job title
- Nurse Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02073929020
- Additional information
If you would like to find out more about the role, please email Dr Anna Westlake, at [email protected]
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