Specialist Clinical Health Psychologist (Physical Health)

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution in the UK is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Health Psychologist to provide advanced psychological services for burns patients. Responsibilities include delivering psychological therapies, supervising clinical staff, and developing care initiatives. Ideal candidates should possess significant experience in clinical psychology, strong teamwork abilities, and relevant postgraduate qualifications. This role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical/counselling psychologist.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary teams and hospital environments.
• Skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation.

Responsibilities

• Provide a highly specialist psychology service to burns patients.
• Devise and deliver individualized psychological assessments.
• Supervise clinical work of trainees and staff.

Skills

Clinical responsibility

Experience with chronic illness

Teamwork skills

Consultation abilities

Education

Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology

Post-doctorate Clinical Health Psychology training

Job description

Highly Specialist Clinical Health Psychologist (Physical Health)

We are looking to recruit a psychologist to help develop and provide a highly specialist and high-quality Clinical Psychology service for adults and paediatric burns patients of the Burns Facility in University Hospital Plymouth. .

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as 'Priority' and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Main duties of the job

To provide a highly specialist and high-quality Clinical Psychology service for adults and paediatric burns patients of the Burns Facility in University Hospital Plymouth. To be responsible for the assessment and provision of psychological therapy, advice or consultation to patients and professionals within the Trust.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to function as a highly specialist resource to the Trust. To provide teaching and training where required, supervision to other professionals and to support the development of increased psychological provision within the hospital.

To provide a highly specialist psychological service to patients who have suffered burns injuries including those repatriated from regional Burns Units.

In addition, to provide consultation and supervision to a wide range of staff, as required, including supervision of therapeutic work to Counsellors and Psychologists in training. You will work autonomously and support the development of initiatives that support increased psychological provision.

About us

We are a people business - where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.

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We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Job responsibilities

The post-holder carries responsibility for own work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies acting as an autonomous independent practitioner in relation to:

To provide a highly specialised Psychology service to burns patients within the Trust.

To devise and provide individualised assessment and treatment of inpatients and outpatients with multi-faceted problems.

To provide specialist advice and consultation on psychological problems, needs and care of burns patients.

To provide specialist support and supervision to staff involved in the care of burns patients.

To meet the health needs, participate in, advise, and make proposals regarding service development within Clinical Health Psychology especially about Hospital patients.

To apply Research and Development skills to perform audit within the service; audit own clinical practice; and the supervision of undergraduate students, graduate assistants, and doctoral trainees.

To supervise clinical work of newly qualified staff, trainees, and graduate psychology assistants directly to administer psychological therapy and ensuring systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision these staff.

For further details please see attached JD&PS.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical/counselling psychologist.
• Demonstrable experience of working with chronic and life-threatening illness, death and dying.
• Demonstrable experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment.
• Demonstrable experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a hospital environment.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or an equivalent counselling psychology qualification as accredited by the BPS; including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, life span developmental psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level.
• Post-doctorate Clinical Health Psychology specialism training.
• Good analytical and judgemental skills.
• Proven knowledge and demonstrable experience of giving and receiving clinical supervision.
• Demonstrable skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Proven advanced knowledge and competency in comparing frameworks and approaches used in clinical, counselling, health, and applied psychology.
• Proven knowledge and understanding of relevant government policies, guidelines, literature and guidance, and its implications for clinical practice about patients.

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.