Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in London seeks a permanent 0.5 wte Practitioner Psychologist to lead psychological services for the Heart Attack Centre and Heart Failure Team. The ideal candidate will oversee workshops, engage in multidisciplinary working, and provide supervision. The role requires experience in diverse clinical settings and a dedication to improving patient outcomes. Applicants are encouraged to contact Dr. Vicky Kelly to discuss the position further.

Benefits

Funded CPD opportunities

Specialist group supervision

Qualifications

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist at specialist level.
• Experience of representing psychology in multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience in cardiac services and working with life-limiting conditions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the HAC and HF pathways within psychological services.
• Provide clinical supervision to team members.
• Coordinate delivery of psychological services to the teams.

Skills

Experience of working with a variety of client groups

Experience in culturally diverse contexts

Skills in psychological assessment

Highly-developed communication skills

Education

Good honours degree in Psychology

Postgraduate professional training in psychology

Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent 0.5 wte Practitioner Psychologist to join Barts Heart and Thorax Centre Psychological Services based at St Bartholomew's Hospital as the Lead Psychologist for the Heart Attack Centre (HAC) and Heart Failure (HF) Team.The successful applicant will join a friendly and supportive group of psychological professionals at St Bartholomew's Hospital including practitioner psychologists and an art therapist. You will be able to access funded CPD and receive specialist group supervision (e.g. ACT, CFT, Narrative therapy and EMDR) alongside individual supervision which will be provided by a consultant psychologist who is also the service lead.We operate within a mixed model, i.e. specialty attached psychologists embedded within their respective medical teams with centralised referral allocation so that workload can be shared evenly between clinicians and allocated according to skill mix and case complexity. This post is varied and exciting with lots of opportunity for leadership, innovative practice, service development, and research.As a service we are actively working to increase diversity within our workforce, as well as to improve equity of access and outcomes for all patients within cardio-respiratory services. We are therefore eager to receive applications from people who represent our local North East London population. Interested applicants are strongly advised to contact Dr Vicky Kelly (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) to discuss the post on [e-mail].

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will lead the HAC and HF pathways within Barts Heart and Thorax Centre Psychological Services, with a particular focus on overseeing the provision and evaluation of specialist workshops for patients. Their role will include working in an embedded and proactive way to coordinate the delivery of psychological services to the HAC and HF teams. Applicants should therefore be keen to engage in multi-disciplinary working.The post holder will also be expected to provide line management and clinical supervision to both qualified and unqualified members of our team.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment

Person Specification

Experience

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist at specialist level
• Experience of applying psychology in culturally diverse contexts and working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience of presenting psychology (including teaching and training) to multidisciplinary audiences at conferences or other educational settings.
• Experience of intervening at multiple levels in the system, for example, with service development projects.
• Experience of providing staff support in a healthcare setting
• Experience of supervising trainee psychologists and/or other professionals
• Experience of working within related Clinical Health Psychology settings
• Experience of working in cardiac services
• Experience and expertise in working with adults who have life limiting and life-threatening conditions
• Experience of working in an intensive care or other inpatient setting

Knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of legislation / health care guidelines and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to Cardiovascular Conditions and psychological health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
• Knowledge of legislation relating to safeguarding and vulnerable adults
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Highly-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their carers, and other professionals.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Evidence of skilled and productive multidisciplinary team working
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, including verbal abuse.

Qualifications

• Good honours degree in Psychology or equivalent
• Completion of a Health and Care Professions Council/British Psychological Society accredited postgraduate professional training course in either clinical or counselling psychology, including clinical psychometrics and lifespan developmental psychology
• Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council as Practitioner Psychologist.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Other

• Compassionate, flexible, motivated, and committed.
• Enthusiasm for multi-disciplinary working with a thoughtful approach to developing psychological services within this context
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively

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.