Specialist Senior Clinical Psychologist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Banks; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EMDR training opportunity

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a senior clinical psychologist to join the North West Spinal Injuries Centre team. The role focuses on adult spinal injury patients with inpatient and outreach responsibilities, and includes leading paediatric/young people rehabilitation psychology and teaching/training activities.

The post offers EMDR training once pathways are established and requires established clinical psychology experience with long-term physical health

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical health psychology, with psychopathology, psychometrics, neuropsychology and two or more therapies.
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience as a qualified clinical psychologist at specialist level in hospital settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist clinical psychology to inpatients on acute and rehabilitation wards, with outreach where clinically indicated.
• Lead development and delivery of specialist psychology for paediatric and young people's spinal rehabilitation service.
• Deliver specialist psychological assessment and treatment to adult inpatients, individually and in groups.
• Supervise junior colleagues as needed.
• Advise and consult non-psychologist colleagues on inpatients' psychological care.

Skills

Clinical health psychology

Psychometrics

Neuropsychology

Two therapies (adult)

Clinical supervision

Research design

Education

Post-graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Tools

SPSS

Excel

Job description

This senior clinical psychology post joins a newly forming team for the North West Spinal Injuries Centre at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The work centres on adult spinal injury patients across the inpatient ward and outreach, and includes leading a paediatric and young people's rehabilitation service. The post is full-time, sits within a wider Trust psychology network, and offers EMDR training once pathways are established. Applicants need established clinical psychology experience with long-term physical health conditions.

What the job involves

• Provide highly specialist clinical psychology to inpatients on acute and rehabilitation wards, with outreach where clinically indicated
• Lead development and delivery of specialist psychology for the paediatric and young people's spinal rehabilitation service
• Deliver specialist psychological assessment and treatment to adult inpatients, individually and in groups
• Supervise junior colleagues as needed
• Advise and consult non-psychologist colleagues on inpatients' psychological care
• Consult the outreach service on admission of inpatients with complex psychological or psychiatric needs
• Work clinically in line with national spinal standards and with spinal MDT colleagues to increase psychological mindedness across the service
• Contribute to strategic planning of clinical psychology services, including paediatric psychology
• Represent clinical psychology in the centre's wider organisational development and within MWL Psychology
• Contribute to planning, development and delivery of the department's teaching and training

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent), accredited by the BPS, covering psychopathology, psychometrics, neuropsychology, two or more psychological therapies and lifespan…

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist

Experience

• Assessed experience as a qualified clinical psychologist at specialist level, including full clinical responsibility both autonomously and within multidisciplinary treatment plans
• Experience working with adults with long-term physical health problems in a hospital setting
• Experience working with adults with complex psychological presentations
• Experience delivering teaching, training or professional and clinical supervision to professionals working with adults who have psychological difficulties

Skills & knowledge

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical health psychology, psychometrics and neuropsychology, including two or more therapies for adults
• Skills in highly complex psychological assessment and intervention
• High-level oral and written communication of technical, clinically sensitive information, and consultation with professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral level research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
• Knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults and key related legislation

Other

• Ability to sit in constrained positions when working with clients
• Ability to sustain intense concentration
• Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately
• Ability to plan and prioritise own clinical workload and research programmes
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS

Nice to have

• Well-developed knowledge of specialised psychological therapies and assessment, particularly in spinal trauma
• Experience of holistic assessments producing psychological reports
• Completion of supervisor training
• Skills in statistical packages such as SPSS and spreadsheets such as Excel
• Experience representing psychology within multidisciplinary care
• Experience assessing and treating adults across care settings, particularly inpatient and outpatient
• Experience in pain management and complex pain
• Experience working with clinical risk

What’s offered

• Opportunity to be trained in EMDR once pathways are established for spinal injury service users