The Medical Psychology service provides psychological assessment, support, and treatment to medical patients within South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is based at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough and Friarage Hospital, Northallerton. We are pleased to be recruiting for highly experienced Senior Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologists or Psychological Therapists to contribute to the specialist clinical services, supervision, and leadership within our psycho-oncology services and clinical health psychology services.
We are looking for Senior Psychologists or Psychological Therapists to work alongside Consultant Psychologists to provide specialist clinical services, supervision, and leadership.
We provide input across the trust into a range of specialities including but not limited to oncology, haematology, palliative care, rheumatology, diabetes, pain, CFS, infectious diseases, renal, burns, and plastics. The post holder will have responsibilities for providing leadership within specific area(s) of the service.
The post holder will take a lead on specific audit and service evaluation projects and will be involved in service development projects with the aim of expanding the service in line with national guidelines and standards. The post will also involve line management and clinical supervision of other staff.
Applicants will need to have had experience of working in a clinical health setting.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
1. Your Leadership Impact
2. Leading your Team to Success
3. Leading Into the Future
4. Service Improvement for Beginners
5. Developing your Service Improvement Skills
6. Lean Practitioner
The Leadership And Improvement Programme Aims To:
1. Explore leadership within the NHS
2. Promote Trust values and behaviours
3. Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
4. Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training, you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Amie Smith Job title: Director of Medical Psychology Email address: amie.smith2@nhs.net Telephone number: 01642 854123
If you would like to have an informal discussion about the post and/or the possibilities for part time, please contact Dr Amie Smith, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Director of Medical Psychology or Dr Graham Dyson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Lead for Psycho-Oncology services on 01642 854123.
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