Senior Clinical Psychologist

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior clinical psychologist with an interest in cardiac patients to join the Directorate of Psychology. The post supports delivering psychological interventions, including remote delivery where appropriate, to enhance patient wellbeing.

You will conduct 1:1 and group interventions for Lancashire Cardiac Centre, provide reflective practice and consultation, and participate in clinical supervision as both supervisor and supervisee.

Qualifications

• Senior clinical psychologist with an interest in cardiac patients.
• Experience delivering psychological interventions remotely.
• Ability to adapt practice to changing service needs.
• Experience collaborating with Cardiac Centre and Talking Therapies colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver 1:1 and group psychological interventions for patients under the Lancashire Cardiac Centre.
• Provide reflective practice and consultation sessions.
• Participate in clinical supervision as both supervisor and supervisee.
• Support development of new ways of working, e.g. Psychological Integration and Triage meeting model.

Skills

Clinical psychology

Psychological interventions

Clinical supervision

Remote delivery

Job description

We are seeking a senior clinical psychologist with an interest in working with cardiac patients to join the Directorate of Psychology. If you have experience of working remotely to effectively deliver psychological interventions and a demonstrable ability to adapt your practice to changing service needs we would be interested in your application.

To support the vision and aims of the Directorate of Psychology at BTH.

As a member of the Directorate of Psychology you will deliver psychological interventions with patients and where appropriate carers and staff to further the psychological wellbeing of patients.

To undertake 1:1 and group based psychological interventions with patients under the care of the Lancashire Cardiac Centre.

To deliver reflective practice and consultation sessions as required.

To take part in clinical supervision as both supervisor and supervisee relevant to service need.

You will be joining a welcoming Directorate of Psychology and work with the Cardiac Psychology service Lead and Head of Directorate to develop provision into a context where we have developed new ways of working, such as the Psychological Integration and Triage meeting model which supports excellent liaison and Team working with Talking Therapies colleagues, while ensuring specialist psychological provision can be accessed as effectively as possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Lyn Sutcliffe Job title: Head of the Directorate of Psychology Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01253 955713