Employer Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Wansbeck General Hospital
Town Ashington
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 21/04/2025 23:59
Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the passionate and innovative Obstetrics and Gynaecology Health Psychology team at Northumbria.
We are looking to recruit a band 8a Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our team for 30 hours a week.
We sit within a wider Health Psychology Department, providing access to excellent CPD and specialist supervision opportunities.
We pride ourselves on innovative practice and working towards our vision of a gold standard service.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The aims of the Health Psychology Services in Northumbria are to:
Promote the health, wellbeing and functioning of the population accessing the Trust, by working with individual patients, families, and groups of patients.
Embed psychologically informed care by supporting healthcare teams and contributing to the systems work of the Trust and our stakeholder partners.
As well as providing assessment, formulation and psychological therapy for individual patients, Psychologists working into healthcare teams can help with:
Understanding the diverse range of influences on health and wellbeing (H&WB).
Using this understanding to extend the established approach of medical diagnosis, to include consideration of contextual factors that impact on an individual’s H&WB.
In doing so, help shape an integrated approach to the provision of care, by supporting person-centred, psychosocial approaches.
Further develop the workforce and technological capabilities that are needed to deliver such holistic care, in a way that is more accessible to patients.
In line with national guidance across healthcare specialisms, by working together with our teams in this way, the expected outcome will be:
Patients at the heart of healthcare provision that considers mental and physical health in an integrated way.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide high quality, effective applied psychology services in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Health Psychology.
To provide effective psychological assessment and interventions to the patients of the service.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to trust policies.
To undertake R&D activities for audit, policy and service development in conjunction with service leads.
To supervise and support the clinical activities of assistants and trainees in the Health Psychology Service.
Please see the attached full job description and person specification for more detail as to the responsibilities and requirements of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post Graduate Doctorate (or equivalent) training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
* Registered with the HCPC and eligible for chartered status with the British Psychological Society
* Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge, through further postqualification training/continuing professional development relevant to this post, such as completion of approved courses in specific therapeutic modalities (e.g. CBT), clinical supervision, further training and experience in supervision/ consultation / training/ research and/or management skills
* Registered with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist, including evidence of continuing compliance with the HPC continuing professional development requirements to practise
* Other specialist post qualification training, such as in specific psychological aspects of physical health/ long term conditions and/or management/supervision skills.
Experience and knowledge
* Substantial post qualification experience in highly complex psychological assessment, formulation and treatment/therapy, through supervised post-qualification clinical practice in a specialism relevant to the advertised post.
* Experience of working within the NHS 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
Other
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name Dr Suzanne McGarva-Collins
Job title Principal Clinical Psychologist
Email address suzanne.mcgarva-collins@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
Telephone number 01670 564095
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