Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join their innovative Psychological Service. This role encompasses working within multi-disciplinary teams, conducting assessments and interventions in diverse settings, focusing on patient care enhancements. Ideal candidates will possess a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and have ambitions for career development through varied clinical experiences.

Qualifications

• Completion of Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
• Registration eligibility with HCPC required.
• Experience in clinical settings preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct individual and joint assessments with patients.
• Provide individual and group interventions.
• Supervise trainees and lead service evaluations.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Intervention methodology

Clinical leadership

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Honours degree in psychology or related field

Job description

Job summary

There are exciting career opportunities in the Clinical Health Psychology Service with opportunities to work in the Pain management service and paediatrics and other specialities as needs arrive across the grouping. It includes services in both in-patient, out-patient and community settings. We are currently expanding into a range of innovative areas and exploring cutting-edge ways of embedding psychology into teams to support patient care.

For this post we would be interested in receiving applications from newly qualified candidates looking to progress their career. We support career development through personal development plans, regular supervision and opportunities to develop skills and competencies.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

This post swill be based with the Living Well with Pain and Paediatric service, working within a multi-disciplinary team . The work is varied, including individual and joint assessment, individual and group interventions, and participation in the triage and screening processes of referral management. Post holders will also contribute to service developments, evaluation and audit projects and the supervision of others, including doctorate trainees.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinicians are supported to develop a wide range of skills beyond the direct clinical role. This may include service redesign and quality improvement, evaluation, and audit with the aim of contributing to the services quality and safety monitoring and developing clinical leadership skills. Contribution to service wide projects is planned as part of competency acquisition and may include future projects such as service user collaboration. To facilitate our work, psychologists in the service are supported with a clear structure of clinical supervision, adapted to clinical interest and personal development plans. Supervision is provided individually and through specialist model supervision groups with expert supervisors (for example EMDR and systemic models).

The service has links with the regional doctorate programmes and competency development will include supervisor training and the supervision of doctorate trainees. Supervision of other psychologists within the service will be part of your role as will be contributions to the Practice Update programme with the dissemination of information of training, conferences, or Trust events that you have attended or presentations on special interests that you may have

The post holder will work autonomously within British Psychological Society and NHS Trust professional guidelines. Applicants, if not already an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, must be undertaking a qualification making them eligible to be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council. Applicants must have completed or be about to complete a Doctoral level Postgraduate training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or hold a BPS Statement of Equivalence. Applicants with a doctorate in Health Psychology will be considered if they can demonstrate comparable clinical experience, skills and competencies that are acquired in the clinical element of Clinical or Counselling Psychology doctorates. This is an essential requirement.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Clinicians are supported to develop a wide range of skills beyond the direct clinical role. This may include service redesign and quality improvement, evaluation, and audit with the aim of contributing to the services quality and safety monitoring and developing clinical leadership skills. Contribution to service wide projects is planned as part of competency acquisition and may include future projects such as service user collaboration. To facilitate our work, psychologists in the service are supported with a clear structure of clinical supervision, adapted to clinical interest and personal development plans. Supervision is provided individually and through specialist model supervision groups with expert supervisors (for example EMDR and systemic models).

The service has links with the regional doctorate programmes and competency development will include supervisor training and the supervision of doctorate trainees. Supervision of other psychologists within the service will be part of your role as will be contributions to the Practice Update programme with the dissemination of information of training, conferences, or Trust events that you have attended or presentations on special interests that you may have

The post holder will work autonomously within British Psychological Society and NHS Trust professional guidelines. Applicants, if not already an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, must be undertaking a qualification making them eligible to be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council. Applicants must have completed or be about to complete a Doctoral level Postgraduate training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or hold a BPS Statement of Equivalence. Applicants with a doctorate in Health Psychology will be considered if they can demonstrate comparable clinical experience, skills and competencies that are acquired in the clinical element of Clinical or Counselling Psychology doctorates. This is an essential requirement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field.
• Doctorate in clinical or counselling or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field.
• Doctorate in clinical or counselling or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address

North Tyneside Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH

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