Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to cover maternity leave. This role involves working with children and adults with diabetes, providing psychological assessments, and leading multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient care. The position offers opportunities for professional development and access to NHS benefits, including generous leave and pension schemes.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Pension scheme

NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience with a variety of client groups and clinical severity.
• Experience in interdisciplinary working.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessment and intervention for children and adults with diabetes.
• Lead psychological care within multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop and lead psychological groups for diabetes education.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Teamwork

Psychological Assessment

Consultation

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Leadership qualification

Job description

We are seeking a clinical psychologist to cover maternity leave for a colleague established in this role. The post holder will work across the lifespan in Diabetes care and be embedded in the MDT for children, young people (0.4 wte) and adults (0.2 wte). You will be working in two established out-patient diabetes multi-disciplinary services; the paediatric and young persons' team and the adult diabetes team

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work across the life span (children & young people with diabetes 0.4 WTE and adults with diabetes 0.2 WTE) and, with psychological therapist colleagues, provide a clinical psychology service in the diabetes multidisciplinary teams.

Providing Psychological assessment and intervention for CYP and adults who have Diabetes.

Working within the MDT, mainly in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, taking the lead on Psychological care and supporting and consulting with the MDT to enhance the psychological experience of each patient.

Ensuring annual psychological assessment for all CYPs as required for Best Practice Tariff

Alongside your Clinical psychology colleague providing the CYP service for Diabetes in Wycombe Hospital, developing and leading psychological groups and also contributing to general Diabetes patient education groups

Running the psychological therapy service to adults with Diabetes by screening all referrals and allocating and supervising those referrals that are seen by the local Talking Therapies CBT therapist working in Diabetes

Risk assessment & liaison with outside mental Health agencies and social care as necessary to ensure safety of the CYP and Adults in your care

About us

Why colleagues think we are "a great place to work!"

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact [e-mail] (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.

We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

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Person Specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 and those who trained abroad) as accredited by the BPS, or with a statement of equivalence from the BPS
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the British Psychological Society and HCPC
• Is HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post-doctoral training (e.g. in a therapeutic model)
• Leadership qualification / evidence of training in leadership
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

EXPERIENCE

• Supervised experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the lifespan and presenting with a wide range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings (e.g. outpatient, inpatient, community and residential care settings)
• Experience of working with people with long term health conditions
• Experience of individual psychological interventions with clients with both acute and long term physical health problems
• Experience of working with children and Young people and their families and carers
• Experience of liaising with related services which may be required for patient care e.g. IAPT, Psychiatry liaison services, CAMHS
• Experience of interdisciplinary working in a physical healthcare setting
• Experience of teaching and training to a variety of professional groups, including nurses
• Experience of supervising qualified clinical psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists and physical healthcare staff such as doctors, physiotherapists and nurses
• Experience of leadership
• Experience of planning and implementing changes in a service, even against resistance
• Experience of working effectively in an unstructured and constantly changing environment
• Experience of managing resources and allocating these strategically to meet the various demands on/needs of the service
• Experience of leading and conducting research within clinical settings

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Skills in assessing people with complex psychological, health and social difficulties
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate orally effectively, especially when under pressure
• Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Able to identify psychological difficulty in a short time frame and to be able to act appropriately to address the person's needs
• Able to provide highly specialist advice regarding patient care
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups.
• Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
• Skills in working as part of a team and engaging in organisational innovations.
• Able to identify priorities for service development, identify resources required and put forward a case to managers
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to mental health.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Has good skills in influencing and networking
• Able to work independently
• Enthusiasm for the application of psychological models in an acute hospital setting.
• Passion for working in multidisciplinary teams and improving team working
• Knowledge and understanding of Integrated Care Systems
• Skilled in managing projects; prioritising, planning, adapting plans and resource planning

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• Able to travel to travel between Trust sites and to the CAMHS service

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.

£62,215 to £72,293 a yearper annum pro rata