The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Job responsibilities
To provide a specialist clinical/counselling psychology service within the service in which this post is located, providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy. Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. 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 months 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
* Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent conferring eligibility for registration with HCPC as either a Clinical Psychologist or a Counselling Psychologist) including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
* HCPC registration.
* Doctorate (or equivalent) level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or fields of applied psychology.
Knowledge & Experience
* Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Post qualification experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Computer literate - competent use of email/internet and patient information systems for electronic clinical records and diary management as appropriate.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities, etc.)
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* In addition to obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to practice as a clinical/counselling psychologist, has additional knowledge of working as a clinical/counselling psychologist in the patient population served by this post.
Skills & Abilities
* Further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for Doctoral trainees
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Well developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post - community-based work.
* Well-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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