Job summary
People are invited to apply for a combination or one of these posts that are available within the University of Hospital of Southampton (UHS) Adult Psychology service. We ask that people work a minimum of 2 days within our service so that they can benefit from the diverse CPD and support from the wider team.
The posts are within the congenital cardiac service (0.5wte), complex cancer surgery service (0.3wte) and our staff psychology service (0.4wte). All are established services and offer clinical and service development work.
Balancing wellbeing with work demands and developing your professional skills are highly valued within the UHS Adult Psychology team. It offers many opportunities to develop your interest in therapeutic approaches through informal networking, facilitated reflective practice, education days and specialist supervision or discussion groups. Currently we have active interests in Systemic, Acceptance and Commitment, Cognitive Analytic Therapy and EMDR therapeutic approaches. Funded training opportunities are available to all team Psychologists; recently these have included EMDR, ACT and CAT.
The team can accommodate flexible working with most posts having an element of remote working.
UHS Adult Psychology are active in local and national specialist psychology groups, are developing a research strategy and have close links with Southampton University Clinical and Health Psychology courses.
Main duties of the job
Psychology is valued within both staff and clinical health settings in UHS.
Within clinical health posts, you will work with the multi-professional teams to offer a psychological service to patients and families. This will include assessments and therapy for patients as well as supervision, consultation, teaching or training to professionals.
Within Staff Psychology you will work with other psychologists to offer a triage service to staff who contact the service and assessment and intervention for work related issues. You will also offer training and teaching to teams.
Experience in working in a physical health setting and with evidence based approaches to managing trauma will be beneficial.
You will be supported by a large and friendly team of psychologists who work in clinical health, and staff psychology in UHS.
We have generic job descriptions to assist career development and gaining experience. We would encourage people to contact the team to find out more about the posts and the clinical area. We would be very happy to answer any of your questions.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience
* Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
* Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy.
Experience
Essential
* In depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of service development and working with teams.
Desirable
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of working within a Physical Health Setting and in particular the area that the job is focused on.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working with trauma using evidenced based approaches.
* Experience of working within the NHS as an Applied Psychologist
* Experience of neuropsychological and psychometric Assessment
Additional Criteria
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* For posts working in medical services, knowledge of the theory and practice of working with the psychological implications of physical health problems. For all services, knowledge of a trauma-informed approach to care.
* Skills in psychological therapies used to work with physical health and trauma such as CBT, ACT, EMDR, mindfulness approaches, Systemic therapies
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* Skills in providing psychological consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Skills and competencies in neuropsychological assessment
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.
UK Registration
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Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Southampton General Hospital
Teremona Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 6YD
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