Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Winchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is looking for a Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist to join their Clinical Health Psychology department. The role involves providing psychological assessments and therapies to inpatients and outpatients, particularly those with chronic conditions. Applicants should possess doctoral level training and experience in various clinical settings. Work in a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development and engagement in innovative health practices.

Benefits

Opportunities for CPD

Supportive environment

Training and teaching opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working with diverse client groups across various settings.
• Doctoral knowledge of clinical/health/counselling psychology.
• Ability to convey complex information to patients and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide qualified psychology service to inpatients and outpatients.
• Conduct psychological assessments and interventions.
• Engage in clinical supervision for psychology staff.

Skills

Complex psychological assessment

Communication skills

Consultation to professionals

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical, counselling, or health psychology

Job description

Job summary

Job Title: Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist

Salary: Band 7, 0.8 w.t.e / 30 hours per week

Location: Clinical Health Psychology Department, RNOH, Stanmore, London, HA7 4LP

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed individual to work in the Clinical Health Psychology department, based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. This role includes outpatient psychological assessment and therapy and contributing towards the psychological component of our inpatient pain management programmes.

Responsibilities

• Under supervision of a Senior Psychologist, provide a qualified psychology service to inpatients and outpatients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention to both inpatients and outpatients, particularly those with chronic neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions who receive care from our pain management and rheumatological teams.
• Provide regular clinical supervision for pre-qualification psychology staff and engage in regular peer supervision with colleagues.
• Offer advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to members of the multidisciplinary team and to other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service and take the lead for specific areas of service development.

Person Specification

• Training & Qualification (Essential): Post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health psychology leading to registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Training & Qualification (Desirable): Pre‑qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent.
• Experience (Essential): Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings; maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience (Desirable): Experience of psychological work with patients with physical health problems; experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care; experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts; experience of representing psychology within the context of multi‑disciplinary care; experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Knowledge (Essential): Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/health/counselling psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology; knowledge of research design and methodology; understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with physical health problems; knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health.
• Knowledge (Desirable): Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in physical health settings; high level knowledge of at least two specialised psychological therapies; understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with chronic pain conditions.
• Skills (Essential): Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management; well‑developed communication skills orally and in writing, able to convey complex technical information to patients, families, carers and other professional colleagues; skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
• Skills (Desirable): Ability to engage people in psychological work who are experiencing complex biopsychosocial problems.

Benefits & Working Conditions

Supportive and friendly environment with excellent opportunities for CPD, supervision and peer supervision, teaching and training of healthcare professionals aimed at developing innovative services of supporting health‑related behaviour change.

Employer Details

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 4LP