Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Health Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Other)
- Hours
- Part time - 26.25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 236-SCO-P290-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salford Royal Hospital
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling/Health Practitioner Psychologist Fixed Term (8a)
Band 8a
Job overview
We are excited to be recruiting a fixed term (12 months) part time Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Health Practitioner Psychologist within the Intestinal Failure team.
The successful applicant will join existing psychology teams in the provision of highly specialist psychological services to the IFU team at Salford Royal Hospital as part of the Clinical Health Psychology Department within Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.
This role will involve highly complex psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of patients on an individual and group basis, multi-disciplinary working, consultancy work, liaison, research, teaching, training/supervision of trainee/assistant psychologists, nursing staff, and others.
The role also includes assisting the Clinical Leads in service design and development of clinical pathways. You will do this by working in an evidence-based way, considering the link between both physical and mental health and according to best practice and professional guidelines
Main duties of the job
- Work individually with outpatients including psychological assessment, formulation, design, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic interventions for patients with complex medical and psychological needs, including high levels of long-term risk assessment and management. This work will be both face to face and remote (telephone/video).
- Manage referrals and own caseload, making autonomous clinical decisions regarding the choice of assessment tools, psychological therapies and the design of individualised therapy programmes within level of expertise.
- Make recommendations to surgical, medical and nursing colleagues regarding current and future psychological and clinical management.
- Facilitate groups based on CBT and ACT principles if required.
- There may be a requirement for inpatient work.
- Work indirectly including liaising with colleagues and other professionals to promote a psychological perspective regarding patient care.
- Provide consultancy, including liaising with multi-disciplinary colleagues, attending MDT meetings, and inter-agency working including attending multi professionals meetings.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three
core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a betterwork-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information
around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website
https://www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership. However, as members of ethnicity minority groups and individuals with disabilities are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of these groups. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
Person specification
Qualifications / Accreditation
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology.
- HCPC registered
- BSc Psychology (or equivalent recognised by BPS) and post-graduate doctorate training or statement of equivalence from BPS.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in Clinical Health and/or Gastrointestinal Psychology Services.
- An interest in working with people with chronic health conditions, especially gastrointestinal/renal diagnoses.
- In addition to routine CPD and clinical supervision, the post holder must demonstrate working towards the ‘Highly Specialist’ criteria for further training and experience*.
- Ability to effectively manage a workload of clinical cases and other professional responsibilities (teaching, MDT input, service development etc.).
- High level of written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication for various audiences and convey complex or sensitive information.
Desirable criteria
- Training in approaches particularly valuable in health settings, such as ACT, CFT, EMDR, clinical hypnotherapy, including group-based approaches where appropriate.
- Research experience or further doctoral training.
- Experience of developing services and taking on other roles of increasing responsibility such as supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and development of specialist areas of working*.
- Prior experience of research activity.
- Understanding of risk assessment in medical settings, including assessment of risk in relation to medical non-compliance
- Familiarity working with patients in a variety of ways including face to face and remotely.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katherine Gerrard (Gatro)
- Job title
- Principal Psychologists
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 206 4002
- Additional information
Dr John Sorensen
Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Head of Clinical Health
and Pain Psychology Department
Telephone: 0161 2065588
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