Consultant Clinical Psychologist Staff Support

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 74,000 - 86,000; Part time

Job summary

The University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to enhance their psychological staff support services. This senior role requires strong leadership capabilities, experience in clinical psychology, and a commitment to developing supportive systems for clinical staff, contributing to the overall welfare in a dynamic NHS environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading NHS staff support services required.
• Extensive public speaking and presenting experience needed.
• Proven track record in effective clinical support systems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver effective staff support processes for the CYP GS in the South West.
• Report, disseminate, and present service outcomes regionally and nationally.
• Management and clinical leadership duties as required.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Systemic psychological formulations

Management/leadership

Training and teaching skills

Education

Doctorate in clinical psychology/counselling psychology

Current registration as a practitioner psychologist

Job description

Consultant Clinical Psychologist Staff Support

Band 8c

Main area Psychological Health Services Grade Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

22.5 hours per week Job ref 387-WC8740-SC

Site Bristol Royal Hospital for Children Town Bristol Salary £74,290 - £85,601 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59

As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston have a strong and well received Staff Support Service, provided by Psychological Health Services. We wish to extend that service and develop capacity to provide for the NHS Children and Young People's Gender Service in the South West (CYPGS). We are looking for an experienced leader of staff support services to work with the Clinical Director and Clinical Lead to develop, implement and maintain proactive staff support systems for the large multi-professional team (clinical and non-clinical). We expect the staff to experience exceptional pressure. This senior role will also involve significant leadership within the staff support service and will provide for an element of clinical psychology service delivery at a senior level. This will provide a balanced yet challenging job plan for a Clinical Psychologist with a proven track record for delivery of innovative and effective staff support systems and clinical leadership.

Main duties of the job

Deliver an effective, well implemented, maintained, and co-designed proactive and responsive staff support process for the CYP GS in the South West.

Report, disseminate, present and train locally, regionally and nationally regarding methods, outcomes and learning from this service.

Delegated management and clinical leadership duties via relevant Service Heads in staff support and a clinical service area.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Doctorate in clinical psychology/counselling psychology or equivalent
• Current registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council
• Training appropriate theoretical models for use in the post
• Management/leadership training

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience of working as a Clinical Psychologist leader of NHS staff support services.
• Extensive experience of undertaking team consultation development
• Extensive experience working within health care to provide large training events, public speaking and presenting data at professional meeting.
• Extensive experience of formal teaching / presentation sessions to health and other professionals
• Demonstrable knowledge of strategic principles relating to staff support, including trauma informed practice, pateint safety and Equality Diversity and Inclusion
• Knowledge and experience of use appropriate theoretical approaches to working with staff groups and patients and the evidence base for the relevant approaches
• Experience of providing senior leadership and clinical services within a specialist health setting
• Record of publications in either peer reviewed, academic or professional journals/books, and conference presentations
• Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to generate systemic and individual psychological formulations and triage/deliver brief interventions based on applying psychological theories and models to the complex information generated by the patient and systems as appropriate.
• Advanced communication skills with the ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from patients and their families in a developmentally and culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations. This will include the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner.
• Ability to access, record and manage information and data pertaining to the work undertaken in notes, data bases and electronic records as required
• Ability to prioritise and manage available time for clinical, managerial and professional activities effectively and safely
• Able to travel as required
• Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups .
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
• Advanced communication skills. The ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from staff and organisations in a culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations.
• This will include the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner.

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

· As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.

· UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

· To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.

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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

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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.