Are you looking to develop your skills in working with people with physical health conditions within a supportive team? Are you interested in the relationship between physical and psychological health?
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in our Multispecialty team and Vascular Surgery service.
Our Multispecialty team provides both inpatient and outpatient assessments and psychological interventions to patients with a wide range of different physical health conditions/difficulties who are under various medical and surgical teams within Newcastle Hospitals. The Multispecialty role involves providing assessment and interventions to inpatients on wards at the RVI and Freeman Hospital using a brief therapy model, and assessment and psychological therapy to outpatients referred to our team. This is a great opportunity to build skills working with a wide range of psychological difficulties and presentations and to experience working in a leading acute hospital trust. You will have opportunities to input into innovative service development, research and audit, and CPD.
Interview date: Thursday 30 January 2025
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Vascular Surgery Service provides care for patients who require specialist care. This post also covers the Vascular Surgery Service, which offers the Clinical/Counselling Psychology provision detailed above, within a specific MDT and ward at the Freeman Hospital.
We encourage applications from Clinical Psychologists / Counselling Psychologists with experience or an interest in working in physical health. You will become a member of our Multispecialty team within a large and supportive psychology service and will have good support from the Psychology in Healthcare service and opportunities to further develop skills and experience. Clinicians in the team use a variety of approaches including CBT, ACT and EMDR amongst others. The service also has close links with the Doctorate Course in Clinical Psychology at Newcastle University.
As a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, you will be offering psychological care to patients with physical health needs. Your role will be to provide a high quality and evidence based psychological service, offering assessment, formulation and psychological interventions to both inpatients and outpatients referred to the Multispecialty team and Vascular Surgery Service. You will play an active role in the Multispecialty Team and Vascular Surgery Service, attending team meetings (when appropriate) and being involved in delivering and shaping our service.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
1. Freeman Hospital
2. Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
3. Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
4. Newcastle Dental Hospital
5. Newcastle Fertility Centre
6. Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
7. Northern Genetics Service
8. Cramlington Manor Walks
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals
Key Responsibilities:
1. To provide a specialist clinical/counselling psychology service within the service in which this post is located, providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
2. Offering advice and consultation on patient’s psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers.
3. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
4. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Jan 2025.
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