We are excited to advertise an opportunity for a Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to oversee the development and delivery of a brand-new project. The role will deliver a collective systemic intervention to improve the provision of psychological care to people requiring cardiac rehabilitation across the West Yorkshire system. This post requires someone who is interested in developing services to reduce health inequalities for marginalised groups who typically miss out on cardiac rehabilitation and the psychological benefits of this.
We are looking for someone who can work with complex systems as well as deliver a time-limited psychologically based systemic intervention, evaluate its impact and feedback learning from the project to relevant stakeholders.
This would be an excellent opportunity for any current 8as who might be wanting to progress and develop leadership and service development skills. We could support secondment opportunities.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve developing excellent working relationships with the leads from the cardiac rehab services to appraise the psychological needs of the patient groups, developing strong links with local talking therapies services and furthering good knowledge of the local offers of tier four services offered by the acute hospital trusts in the region. Besides excellent communication skills, the post-holder will be capable of drawing together a range of location-based offers, alongside three Assistant Psychologists who will deliver the project. You will have responsibility for supporting these staff to develop self-help resources aimed at improving patients' psychological well-being and supporting cardiac rehabilitation staff to increase their knowledge of screening or signposting individuals to the correct place to receive the right psychological support.
About us
The successful candidate will be hosted by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust but will work across the West Yorkshire region (Leeds, Calderdale, Mid Yorkshire and Airedale) to support a needs analysis of the current position. You will be supported by an experienced consultant clinical psychologist and a passionate group of clinicians who have all worked together to support this stimulating post.
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Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
To provide a qualified specialist clinical or counselling psychology service to patients who are seen within the designated clinical specialty/area, across all sites and sectors of care by:
1. Providing specialist psychological assessments and therapy
2. Offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers
3. Developing, supporting and maintaining effective working relationships with other disciplines within the service areas, including attending Team meetings
4. Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects within the area served by the team/service
5. Proposing and implementing policy changes within the specialist area served
6. Line managing Early Career and Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologists in the discrete clinical specialty that the post covers and making a contribution to the general management, governance and supervision of the clinical/counselling psychology service as agreed
7. Working autonomously in the delivery of these duties within professional guidelines, the evidence-based literature and the overall framework of the Team, Department of Clinical & Health Psychology and Trust policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Other Criteria
* Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy
Experience
* Essential criteria Further training in a specialised area of clinical practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) or a combination of specialist short courses together with
* Completion of formal clinical supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees
* Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (or other domain title as agreed)
* Assessed significant experience and competencies from working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist including significant post-qualification experience within the designated specialty
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
* Qualified experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams and supervising healthcare staff.
* Experience of working with adults in the health condition(s) covered by the designated clinical specialty/area
Skills and Behaviours
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator (or equivalent in a physical healthcare setting)
* Experience of teaching, training and provision of professional and clinical supervision.
* 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
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific difficult to treat groups
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health
Qualifications
* Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychology.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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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