Clinical Health Psychologist

NHS; Retford; Sur place; GBP 67 000 - 77 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Health Psychologist at Band 8b to lead psychologically informed care across physical healthcare services. The post focuses on trauma-informed care, disordered eating, chronic pain management and staff wellbeing, with expert clinical supervision and multidisciplinary collaboration.

The role requires HCPC registration, a psychology degree (BPS accredited) and advanced clinical training.

Qualifications

• Honours Degree in Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
• MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology.
• HCPC registration and eligibility for chartered status as Clinical/Forensic Psychologist.

Responsabilités

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments within physical healthcare services using interviews, psychometrics and multidisciplinary input.
• Assess psychological impact of physical illness, chronic conditions, trauma and health behaviours.
• Lead on psychologically informed interventions for persistent pain and related wellbeing.
• Provide expert psychological consultation to multidisciplinary teams and contribute to care planning.

Connaissances

Empathetic mindset

Excellent communication

Autonomous working

Team leadership

Formation

Honours degree in Psychology (BPS accredited)

MSc or Doctorate in Clinical/Forensic Psychology

Description du poste

Employer Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Rampton Hospital Town Retford Salary £66,582 - £77,368 Plus High Secure Allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 23/11/2026 23:59

Clinical Health Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8b

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Job overview

To provide a comprehensive, highly specialist clinical psychology service within the Physical Healthcare Service. The post holder will lead on the development and delivery of psychologically informed approaches to support patients and staff, with specialist responsibility for:

Disordered eating and the psychological aspects of nutrition and weight management. Trauma-informed care across the Physical Healthcare Service. Persistent pain assessment and management. Staff wellbeing, burnout prevention and compassion fatigue interventions. The post holder will work across the Physical Healthcare Service providing highly specialist psychological leadership to support patients experiencing the complex interaction between physical and mental health difficulties.

The post holder will provide expert consultation to multidisciplinary teams, supporting complex clinical decision-making and embedding psychological principles within routine physical healthcare practice.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £20.00 (standard) or £41.00 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £15 per year applies.

Main duties of the job

The role will contribute to the development and delivery of psychologically informed and trauma-responsive services, promoting holistic, person-centred care and improving patient outcomes across community, inpatient and outpatient settings.

Working for our organisation

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 10,500 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health and forensic health services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 80 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings and secure environments.

We are one of the largest mental health and community health Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for individuals accessing physical healthcare services, integrating information from clinical interviews, psychometric assessment, behavioural observation, clinical records and multidisciplinary discussion.

To assess the psychological impact of physical illness, long-term conditions, chronic pain, trauma, health-related behaviours and adjustment difficulties.

To provide specialist assessment and formulation for individuals presenting with disordered eating behaviours, emotional eating, avoidant or restrictive eating patterns and complex relationships with food, weight and body image.

To undertake specialist assessments relating to trauma and adverse life experiences that impact physical and psychological wellbeing. To develop and implement highly specialist psychological formulations that integrate biological, psychological, social and systemic factors.

To provide evidence-based individual and group interventions for people experiencing psychological distress associated with physical health conditions.

To lead on psychological interventions for persistent pain management, supporting patients to improve functioning, self-management and quality of life.

To provide specialist interventions addressing disordered eating and health-related behaviour change.

To support individuals affected by trauma through trauma-informed assessment, formulation and intervention.

To evaluate treatment outcomes and adapt interventions based on patient needs and emerging evidence.

To provide expert psychological consultation and advice to multidisciplinary teams regarding patient care, treatment planning and service delivery.

To contribute to complex case discussions and multidisciplinary formulations.

T o lead the development and implementation of trauma-informed care approaches across physical healthcare services.

To support clinical teams in understanding the psychological impact of physical illness and healthcare experiences.

To contribute to integrated care pathways that promote parity of esteem between physical and mental health.

To lead initiatives aimed at improving staff wellbeing across the Physical Healthcare Service.

To develop and facilitate interventions addressing burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury and secondary traumatic stress.

To provide psychologically informed consultation to teams following distressing or traumatic events.

To establish reflective practice programmes and psychologically safe spaces for staff.

To contribute to organisational wellbeing strategies designed to support staff retention, resilience and engagement.

To provide regular clinical supervision to Trainee and Assistant Psychologists.

To provide specialist supervision relating to trauma-informed care, persistent pain management, disordered eating and staff well-being interventions.

To design, deliver and evaluate training programmes for multidisciplinary staff.

To provide consultation, coaching and reflective practice facilitation for clinical teams.

To contribute to professional development activities across the Trust.

To maintain an active programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Person specification

Qualifications

• An Honours Degree in Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
• MSc or Doctorate in Clinical or Forensic Psychology

physical requirements

• Physical skills in line with role

Training

• Evidence of post-qualification highly specialist training, experience and developing expertise in a specialist area of clinical and forensic psychology, specifically applied to psychosis and/or complex trauma.
• Must be HCPC registered and able to demonstrate eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical or Forensic Psychologist.

Experience

• Some experience in Health Psychology.
• Highly specialist experience and expertise in clinical and forensic psychology practice, specifically applied to psychosis and/or complex trauma
• Experiencing of providing and evaluating highly specialist evidence based psychological interventions
• Significant experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings.
• Highly specialist experience and expertise in clinical and forensic psychology practice, specifically applied to psychosis and/or complex trauma
• Significant experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Experience of post-qualification knowledge and skills in forensic service evaluation, audit and/or research, including evidence of publication.
• Can demonstrate highly specialist knowledge across a range of aspects of clinical and forensic psychology.
• Record of clinical effectiveness.
• High level ability to plan and organise clinical service provision to meet service demands, whilst maintaining high-quality professional practice.
• Ability to work intensively, demonstrating highly specialist knowledge and skills with people who present challenges in the complexity of their difficulties and needs, including offending, self-harming and suicidal behaviours.

Knowledge

• Expertise in knowledge of working area
• Knowledge of National Policy and guidance.
• Applied leadership knowledge

Skills

• Empathetic and psychologically minded.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Well organised.
• Good reasoning skills.
• Motivated and a motivator
• Team builder and team member Autonomous and able to work without direct supervision.
• Ability to manage own wellbeing with access to supervision to sustain this.
• Highly specialist skill in working with people
• Experience of supporting other staff and students
• Experience of managing a project or service initiative.
• Experience of leading service development

contractual requirements

• flexible working as required by post

Additional Information

• We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants.
• The Trust believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We guarantee an interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria.
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• For eligible posts, DBS disclosures are mandatory before commencement of employment. If you are in a position that is deemed a regulated adult and/or child care role, you will not be able to start your employment until we have received a satisfactory DBS Disclosure. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Convictions which would otherwise be considered as 'spent' will also be checked as part of an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.