7/8a Preceptorship in Medical Psychology
Band 7/8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Medical Psychology : Working General Medical and Intensive Care.
This is an exciting opportunity to take on an 8a role or a band 7 preceptorship, offering some generic work within medical psychology, as well as working with a band 8b psychologist to support the ITU department.
The role will allow the candidate to gain both generic and specialist skills within medical psychology, with the work ranging from complex assessments, interventions to consultation and close MDT working.The role can be part time or job share, or could be split with a part time in other similar level posts within the service (including the new cancer preceptorship role that is also out to advert).
We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated clinical psychologists to join our well-established Department of Medical Psychology. The department is friendly, supportive, and flexible. The team includes clinical and counselling psychologists, trainees, assistants, and excellent admin/clerical support. We place great emphasis on supervision and personal development, which is possible through working within a psychology department. We meet regularly for case presentations, clinical governance, and business meetings.
We also have a monthly peer group meeting and regular time-out to enable reflection and service development. We have a team base at Leicester General Hospital, although also work at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital.
Main duties of the job
In the General Medical role there is the opportunity to work with a team of psychologists offering complex assessments, one to one intervention and groups to patients referred by multiple teams within UHL (including diabetes, cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology and neurology).
The team is also developing ways to support staff within UHL to offer level 2 psychological support for patients, which the successful applicant can become involved with.The ITU role involves further developing the provision for both inpatients and patients following their outpatient stay. There is work supporting patients and staff on the wards, as well as attendance at follow up clinics.
The psychology team work alongside the MDT and are developing staff training and staff support, alongside direct and indirect patient intervention. As a relatively new service there is also scope for service development through liaison with the ITU team and the lead psychologist.
About us
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
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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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Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
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