Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job description

Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Job summary
Expected Shortlisting Date: 28/04/2025
Planned Interview Date: 09/05/2025

We'd love you to come and join our friendly and supportive department in Leeds. We have a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist post available to provide psychology services to the Adult Dermatology Service. The Dermatology Psychology Service has been established for 18 months and this is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to be involved in further service development and innovation in this evolving service.

This post is ideal for anyone who is looking to explore a fulfilling career in Clinical Health Psychology as well as for psychologists interested in switching to health from other areas of the profession. The post is part-time 0.5 WTE. Flexible working will be considered.

Please feel free to contact either of us on 0113 206 5897 for more information or to arrange an informal visit: Dr Janette Moran (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) [e-mail] or Dr Penny Morris (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) [e-mail].

Main duties of the job

• Opportunities for innovative service developments, with a chance to shape and develop psychological input into the area of provision.
• A unique balance of prospects to develop your career, combined with being embedded within a well-established department with containing support structures.
• The ability to develop in your role with varied opportunities for independent working and advancing your leadership skills whilst receiving regular support from experienced clinical psychologists.
• A chance to be involved in local and national research projects/initiatives with support to develop within the role.
• A fulfilling career with supportive and friendly colleagues and teams.

We are a great place to consolidate specialist therapeutic models with a range of regular well-established special interest groups (ACT, CFT, CBT, CAT and EMDR). We also have a monthly Departmental Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Group. We provide regular department-wide training events, arrange in-house external trainers and support staff to attend supervisor training. We have strong links with the local clinical psychology training programme and provide regular placements to trainee clinical psychologists as well as providing teaching, research and service evaluation supervision.

About us

Our department has grown in response to the increasing awareness of the value that psychology and counselling can add within an acute physical health setting. These posts sit within the Adult Medical Psychology Section at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust but will also have strong links with the wider Clinical and Health Psychology Department. Alongside our growth, we have managed to retain a supportive and welcoming atmosphere full of innovative and enthusiastic people. This has been achieved by ensuring that we have regular opportunities to connect with each other and the right structures in place to support and develop great working relationships.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY
To provide a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychology service to adult patients, across all sites and sectors of care by:

1. Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
2. Offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers.
3. Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects within the area served by the team/service.
4. Working autonomously in the execution of these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
• Area of clinical practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) or a combination of specialist short courses together with an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice.
• Completion of (or completion by the time of starting the post) formal clinical supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Ability to exercise full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment within the clinical specialty and to co-ordinate the psychological care provided by others.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Desirable

• Ability to provide emotional support and professional mentorship to multi-disciplinary team members.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific difficult to treat groups.
• Advanced level knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

Desirable

• Experience of working within activity and waiting list targets.
• Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
• Experience of working in medical multi-disciplinary teams and offering systemic interpretations to have impact on the team functioning in patient care.
• Experience of working with adults with chronic illness and their families.
• Experience of working with medical multi-disciplinary teams and supervising healthcare staff.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Employer details

Employer name: Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address: St. James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF

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