Clinical Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling)

Wye Valley Nhs Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Hereford is looking for a Clinical Psychologist to deliver psychological interventions within oncology and palliative care pathways. The successful candidate will work in a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality assessment and treatment for service users. Opportunities exist for flexible working hours. The Trust values work-life balance and professional development within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Great work-life balance

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Must be a registered clinical psychologist with a relevant doctorate.
• Experience in oncology and palliative care preferred.
• Ability to work autonomously and in teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological interventions to service-users.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to support client care.
• Ensure high-quality psychological assessment and interventions.
• Train and advise colleagues on psychological care.

Skills

Psychological interventions

Clinical supervision

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Specialist psychological assessment

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Working within the Health Psychology Service to provide psychological interventions to people affected by changes to health, predominantly working into our oncology and palliative care and long‑term conditions pathways, with some opportunities to also input into our stroke and acquired brain injury services. To hold clinical responsibility for a caseload and provide assessment and interventions focusing on identifying and treating psychological issues associated with these health challenges. To provide specialist advice, consultation and training as appropriate to service‑users, their significant others, and colleagues within the organisation, and to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. To contribute to service evaluation, audit, research and policy development. To offer appropriate clinical and/or research supervision and support to peers and less experienced psychologists, and to promote psychological thinking across the organisation.

We have two roles available 0.6 and 0.5 in our oncology and palliative care and long‑term conditions pathways, and there could be some potential to offer support to our stroke and acquired brain injury pathways. We would be open to considering adjusted hours for these roles – please do make contact with the service if you would like to discuss this further.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and deliver timely evidence‑based psychological interventions to service‑users who are living with changes to their physical health and/or adjusting to living with an ongoing health condition. This will involve developing effective working relationships and close liaison with relevant health specialty services and community partners.
• Work as part of an established multidisciplinary team within the Health Psychology Service to contribute to the delivery of a county‑wide psychology service for clients living with changes to health.
• Play a key role in ensuring the systematic and equitable provision of high quality psychological assessment and interventions. This will involve providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation, interventions and evaluations of work undertaken.
• Offer advice, training and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues and other professionals, working under clinical supervision within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
• Work autonomously across a variety of settings. Most contact is offered through face‑to‑face consultations from our community base, with options for telephone/video consultations where this is particularly beneficial for the client. There may also be some potential to offer support into inpatient settings (which may also include telephone/video consultations).

About the Trust

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross‑on‑Wye.

We are a progressive and forward‑looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work‑life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values – Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence – are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.