Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-SPL-6192252
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bennett Centre
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Following promotion we are seeking a Clinical Psychologist or a Senior Clinical Psychologist with an interest in working with people with complex mental health difficulties associated with Cancer diagnosis or survival to join our Clinical Health Psychology team.
The post-holder will undertake individual & group work, consultation & supervision, working closely with the Cancer MDT based at University Hospital of North Midlands (UHNM). Offering clinical supervision to band 7, trainees & assistants. Offering level 2 supervision & training to nursing colleague’s across the cancer specialties at UHNM.
We are a positive, committed psychology team with specialist areas such as bariatrics, critical care, spinal injuries, long covid & paediatrics. There is potential for accessing formal training & peer support in a therapy relevant to the client group. We are keen to build our skills mix & welcome applications from a range of theoretical perspectives.
Our growing department has strong links with the UHNM & MPFT. There will be opportunity to get involved in projects related to service development & consultation across the various service areas for interested candidates.
We will consider applications from people whose main area of work since qualification has been in an adult mental health setting if they can demonstrate a good understanding & interest in the impact of physical health conditions.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a highly specialist service to outpatients as an integral member of the Clinical Health Psychology team consisting of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Psychologists and Psychological Therapists. To provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to individuals and groups in order to facilitate emotional adjustment and promote improved quality of life. The post involves working with people experiencing psychological distress and complex mental health difficulties associated with living with cancer. Consultation, referral screening, pathway / service development, clinical supervision, training and risk management will form part of the duties.
To offer clinical supervision to band 7, trainees and assistants. Offering level 2 supervision and training to nursing colleague’s across the cancer specialties at UHNM.
Working for our organisation
NSCHT provides mental health and learning disability care to people in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire. We are 1 of only 2 specialist mental health trusts in England with an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Care Quality Commission. In the National 2022 staff survey, Combined Healthcare was the best performing of all NHS trusts, showing that staff feel Combined is a positive place to work.
The Neuropsychology team has excellent links with wider psychology services at Combined Healthcare and with colleagues at local hospitals (Royal Stoke University and Haywood Hospitals).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessment of adults with mental and physical health difficulties utilising information from a broad range of structured psychometric and semi-structured clinical methods. To integrate this information into a psychological formulation of the client and his/her psychosocial environment, drawing on a range of psychological theoretical perspectives.
To provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to individuals and groups in a community clinical health psychology team setting in order to facilitate emotional adjustment and promote improved quality of life.
To undertake a range of psychological therapeutic interventions, drawing on a number of psychological models and employing a range of modalities. To make decisions about treatment options taking into account highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To keep up to date with best practices and advances in practice.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the care of the liaison service integrating the contribution of other professionals on the basis of client need.
To take substantial professional responsibility and exercise autonomous judgement with regard to his/her professional practice.
To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi-disciplinary assessment of service users and their families or carers.
To contribute highly specialist psychological advice and consultation to the multi-disciplinary formulation of appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaboration with other staff.
To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and to provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi-disciplinary team.
To consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of service users.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- HCPC registration as a clinical or counselling psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working effectively as a suitably qualified clinical with adults with complex mental health needs.
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
- Sobia Khan
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Clinical Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 123 1535
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