Clinical Psychologist

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Salisbury is seeking a compassionate psychologist to offer clinical psychology services at their facility. In this role, you will assess and provide therapy for patients and their families and work with multidisciplinary teams to implement health improvements. This position is fixed-term for one year to cover maternity leave, and offers various employee benefits including generous holiday and NHS discounts.

Benefits

Minimum of 35 days paid holiday

NHS discounts

Generous pension scheme

On-site leisure center

On-site day nursery

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent required.
• HCPC registration is necessary.
• Experience in clinical psychology within physical healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychology services in various departments.
• Conduct psychological assessments and therapy for patients and families.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for patient care.

Skills

Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

Experience in clinical psychology applied to physical health

Psychological assessment and intervention

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent)

HCPC registration

Job description

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We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and hardworking psychologist to join our clinical psychology (health) department at Salisbury District Hospital. Our department consists of clinical psychologists, CBT therapists, and counsellors, and is well-established and valued within the hospital and wider Trust. We work across the age-span, and with inpatients, outpatients, family members, and staff members.

This is a one-year fixed-term post to cover maternity leave. The role will predominantly include direct clinical work with patients and their families, alongside service evaluation, supporting pathway improvement projects, and upskilling colleagues in multi-disciplinary teams.

We are a friendly, dedicated, and supportive team, evidenced through our outstanding results on the annual Staff Survey. Members of the team gave particularly high positive scores for questions relating to their role, team, and leadership.

If you would like to know more about the Trust, department, or this role, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Main duties of the job

·To provide a clinical psychology service to a range of different departments within the hospital

·To provide psychological assessment, formulation, and therapy to patients and their families.

·To contribute psychological perspectives, formulations, and advice to multidisciplinary teams of the relevant departments at the hospital.

·To support the lead psychologist for cancer in implementing and evaluating service priorities and improvements.

·To prepare and deliver teaching sessions to staff and/or patients.

·To maintain contemporaneous clinical records in line with NHS record keeping and GDPR requirements.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Essential and desirable

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent)
• HCPC registration
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working in the field of clinical psychology as applied to physical health (working in physical healthcare settings)
• Experience of working in the field of clinical psychology as applied to physical health (working in a hospital setting))
• Experience of working in the field of clinical psychology as applied to physical health (applying psychological theory to formulation, assessment, intervention)

These include but aren't limited to:-

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.