Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist in Respiratory Medicine

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in London is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join their Adult Cardiorespiratory Enhanced and Responsive Service. The successful candidate will lead a specialized integrated health psychology service, focusing on patients with chronic respiratory conditions. This role involves providing psychological assessments and interventions, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and promoting mental health within community settings.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Commitment to equality and inclusion

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology required.
• Chartership by the British Psychological Society and HCPC registration essential.
• Experience with Long Term Conditions and working in multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Promote effective psychological interventions for chronic respiratory conditions.
• Provide assessments and interventions within community settings.
• Consult with colleagues from non-psychology disciplines in complex case discussions.

Skills

Highly-developed knowledge of specialized psychological therapies

Ability to manage highly distressing situations

Education

Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology

Chartership by the British Psychological Society

HCPC registration

Job description

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Job overview

Are you a Clinical Psychologist looking for a new challenge, then this post offers a fantastic opportunity for you to be part of the high quality and well-regarded Adult Cardiorespiratory Enhanced and Responsive Service (ACERs). The successful candidate will lead a well-established integrated Specialist Clinical Health Psychology Service for patients with chronic respiratory conditions, predominantly COPD and asthma. Although the wider ACERs Team encompasses both cardio and respiratory services, the ACERs Psychology Service is commissioned to work only with the Respiratory Service population at the current time.

Main duties of the job

The post is responsible for promoting effective psychological interventions within community settings, including providing assessment and intervention for people with chronic respiratory conditions and signposting to other services as needed. The role is fully integrated into the wider MDT and therefore involves consultation to colleagues from non-psychology disciplines, contributing to complex case discussions and multi-agency links with physical and mental health services, across primary and secondary care including community and voluntary organisations.

Working for our organisation

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology
• Chartership by the British Psychological Society
• HCPC registration

Desirable criteria

• Formal training in supervision of trainees

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• At least a 6 month placement in one of the following: Older Adults or Health Psychology.
• Highly-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialized psychological therapies -CBT and one other.
• Ability to manage and tolerate highly distressing/emotional situations.

Desirable criteria

• Skills for facilitating communication in interventions with families and staff teams.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with Long Term Conditions.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary input.
• Experience of supervision e.g. of a Assistant Psychologist and/or line management experience.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in acute and community health psychology settings and with specific client groups (e.g. respiratory, physical disability, neuro-disability)

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Highly developed knowledge of key NHS policy developments for patients with long-term conditions.
• Highly developed knowledge of specialist psychological interventions for patients with physical health problems.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and clinical experience of neuro-psychological assessment and intervention for neuro-disability.

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to work autonomously without supervision
• Competence in advanced IT packages and computer literacy.
• Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values Commitment and adherence to equality, diversity and inclusion

General Guidance for Applicants

Please ensure that you read the "Guidance Notes On Submitting An Application" under "Additional Documentation" before completing your application.

Please note: we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

We are committed to achieving equality and inclusion at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and we respect and value the diversity and differences of our patients and our people, ensuring everyone is enabled to thrive, feels a sense of belonging, and is able to be their authentic self. We offer a range of flexible working options that enable you to balance your work and personal life, including part-time, compressed hours, remote working and job-shares.

If you are interested in joining our team, please let us know your preferred working pattern in your application, and we will consider all requests for flexible working and try to accommodate them wherever possible.

Please note that secondment arrangements will be considered for any fixed term positions, with the agreement of the existing line manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, and have been approved as a Disability Confident Employer.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

• Clinical Psychologist Job description and Personal Specification (PDF, 392.4KB)
• Guidance for Applicants (PDF, 124.4KB)
• Trust Values (PDF, 652.3KB)