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Main area: 203265 Psychology - Physical Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b-8c
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term to cover a secondment)
Hours: Part time - 16.88 hours per week
Job ref: 262-A-24-6823898
Site: South Cumbria
Town: Kendal
Salary: £62,215 - £85,601 Pro rata. May consider lower grades with suitable experience.
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide professional and clinical leadership to the Long Term Conditions Service in South Cumbria. Applicants need to support key principles of compassionate leadership, psychological safety and demonstrate a commitment to support staff wellbeing and high quality patient care.
The Department offers specialist psychological input across Cumbria to patients with physical health problems. The Health Psychology service aims to promote psychological well being for patients with LTC’s, for example COPD, coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer and palliative care. This post holder will take the lead in the ongoing development of this comprehensive pathway in South Cumbria built on a biopsychosocial model. The pathway will work across secondary and primary care.
Main duties of the job
We offer a range of care and a wide range of therapeutic modalities including ACT, EMDR and CFT. This service focuses on the nurturing and growth of both staff and service users.
There will be an emphasis upon interpersonal skills to form a compassion focused approach to leadership and team working. This will be an essential part of working collaboratively with operational management and other senior clinical colleagues to develop the offer of psychological services within teams and to lead on providing outcomes on psychology service delivery.
This strong focus upon interpersonal skills will also form a fundamental part of providing the supervision and professional leadership to psychology and wider MDT staff.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:
1. Being a clinically led organisation
2. Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
3. A positive patient experience every time
4. A great place to work
5. Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note: due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), or equivalent applied Psychology training as accredited by the BPS.
* Practitioner Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology
* Practitioner qualification as a supervisor in Neuropsychology
* Accredited training in the Mental Capacity Act as an assessor
* Advanced Training in CBT, which meets eligibility criteria for accreditation
* HCPC registered
* Advanced training in an additional psychological model, e.g., Systemic
* Training as a CBT training facilitator
Experience
* Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Experience of highly expert teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Knowledge & Skills
* Knowledge of service development and key national guidance in this clinical area.
* Ability to integrate highly complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
Other Requirements
* Experience of contributing to formal audit process.
* Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
* Ability to contain and work with organisational stress.
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