Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist
Location: Exeter, EX2 5DY
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 16th April 2025
Closing date: 26th May 2025
The Clinical Health Psychology team are embedded at the interface of physical and mental health, and work in a truly bio-psycho-social way to alleviate the distress experienced by those with physical health conditions. We are now looking for a practitioner psychologist or psychological therapist to work with people who are living with kidney disease. The work is a varied and interesting mix of direct client work and indirect work providing support and training to the medical staff who work in this area. There is some flexibility in working hours and modalities within service constraints.
We welcome applications from both psychologists and other therapists e.g. psychotherapists, family therapists, and from current doctoral trainees who are due to complete their qualifications this academic year.
Main duties of the job
All clinical health psychology staff belong in two teams; the hospital team that they link with and the psychology team they sit in. We support our staff to develop their careers and have been very successful in recent years in supporting staff to train in specific therapy models.
Job responsibilities
The principle purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people who attend Renal Services at the Royal Devon University Hospital (RDUH). This will be achieved by:
1. Supporting the systematic provision of a high quality psychological service in specialist fields of practice.
2. Carrying out specialist psychological assessments with donors and recipients with regard to kidney transplants.
3. Caring for a specialist caseload of clients for assessment and intervention.
4. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and supporting the systematic governance of psychological practice.
5. Receiving regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
* Broad knowledge of specialist services and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies are commonly applied.
* Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills.
* Proven organisational, planning and time management skills.
* Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
Qualifications
* Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent) and eligible for Chartered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society.
* Registered with HCPC / UKCP / Other appropriate specialist regulatory body.
Experience
* Experience of working with complex trauma and with systems working around people who have experienced trauma.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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