Job overview
Are you looking to expand your skills and knowledge? If so then this is the role for you!
The Clinical Health Psychology Service (CHPs) is an innovative service based at Royal Preston Hospital. We are proud to collaborate with and support a range of services within Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This post is hosted within CHPs and is focused on improving access to psychologically informed care for people affected by a range of airways conditions and MND in Lancashire and South Cumbria. For the 0.6WTE substantive hours (3 days per week), you will be contributing to the specialist airways MDT and for 0.4WTE (2 days per week) you will be contributing to the specialist MND MDT by delivering care to the patients seen within that service.
Clinical supervision will be provided from within CHPs. You will work collaboratively with us in CHPs across a range of clinical and governance activities. This post is an opportunity to contribute to the holistic care we offer to patients and their families. It is also affords opportunities to contribute to fields of expertise to help advance clinical understanding and care for patients.
Therefore, we welcome applications from highly skilled, experienced and compassionate clinical psychologists who are keen to work in novel areas of practice with experienced MDT colleagues, to develop the evidence base and be part of a dynamic clinical health psychology service.
Main duties of the job
As a Principal Clinical Psychologist, your role will involve developing highly specialized clinical health psychology pathways for patients living with severe asthma, airway conditions, and motor neurone disease. Additionally, you will be responsible for training and supporting MDT colleagues in delivering psychologically informed care.
You will also play a key role in providing clinical supervision to MDT teams, ensuring high standards of psychological practice. Routine research, audit, and service evaluation projects will be part of your duties, with an emphasis on producing reports on clinical activity and effectiveness. Contributing to the promotion of patient needs, clinical symptoms, and approaches to care within the MDT is essential, as is actively participating in the development of care pathways.
Collaboration is a critical aspect of this role. You will work closely with the consultant clinical psychologist, MDT colleagues, and key stakeholders, such as those within the Clinical Business Unit and the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA). As a senior psychologist, you will bring demonstrable leadership skills and experience at a similar or higher level, meeting the demands of the role with a commitment to excellence.
There is an expectation for you to undertake extended roles and responsibilities within the Clinical Health Psychology Services and to work flexibly across the services as required and directed by the Head of the Clinical Health Psychology Services.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties to include but not be limited to:
1. To develop highly specialist clinical health psychology pathways for patients living with severe asthma, airways conditions and motor neurone disease.
2. To provide integrated multidisciplinary care (inc joint appointments and MDT assessment clinics) across the severe asthma, airways and motor neurone disease pathways.
3. To train and support MDT colleagues in psychologically informed care.
4. To routinely undertake research, audit and service evaluation projects.
5. To contribute to MDT promotion of patient need, clinical symptoms and approaches to care. To contribute to the development of the care pathways.
6. To work in consultation and collaboration with the consultant clinical psychologist, clinical colleagues, and key stakeholders in the Clinical Business Unit.
7. You will be a senior psychologist with demonstrable leadership skills and experience at a similar or higher level/grade. There will be an expectation to undertake extended roles and responsibilities within the Clinical Health Psychology Services and to work flexibly across the services overall as required and directed by the Head of the Clinical Health Psychology Services.
Please see attached job description and person specification for the detailed list of duties and responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
8. Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent), as accredited by the BPS/HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology. Resulting in proficiency in administering, scoring and interpreting clinical psychometrics. As well as proficiency in using two or more distinct psychological therapies and extensive knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology. Strong commitment to CPD as evidenced by post qualification training Post qualification training in clinical supervision
9. Significant experience at similar or higher grade working flexibly in extended roles.
Desirable criteria
10. Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
11. Significant experience as a senior psychologist.
12. Post-doctoral qualifications in neuropsychological assessment and/ or specific therapeutic modalities (e.g. EMDR, CAT, CBT, SFBT, mindfulness)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
13. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
14. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable criteria
15. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
16. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
17. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary pain management team and /or inpatient physical health psychology specialities