Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Health Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7 to 8A Development role
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Other
- Job ref
- 434-SCS6373300
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist–(Preceptorship-B7-8A Development)
Band 7 to 8A Development role
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
Interested in developing a career in Clinical Health Psychology and a rewarding job with a great team?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical psychologist to join the National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) and develop clinical skills of working in rehabilitation with inpatients across the lifespan. The NSIC team consists of clinical psychologists, a psychological therapist and family counsellor, administrator and assistant psychologists and leads national and international clinically based research.
Applications are encouraged from those currently employed as a Band 7 or qualifying in 2024. You will be supported to develop your skills across predetermined competencies of therapy, supervision, teamwork and leadership. Once you have been assessed as meeting these competencies, you will move to band 8a in the service.
This post includes working sometime in CYP, either a half a day or seeing some cases so maintain skills in this area which can be discussed at interview. Required working days would be Tuesday, either Monday or Friday, other day to be agreed on appointment.
Main duties of the job
Clinical interventions include individual CBT, ACT and mindfulness-based therapy, neuropsychological rehabilitation and specific condition interventions such as for chronic pain. The post will involve close working with non-psychology colleagues from across the MDT. A systematic rehabilitation approach facilitating self-management skills is core to our provision, with the team leading the renowned Stoke Mandeville Spinal Needs Assessment and Goal Planning Programme (finalist for HSJ in 2016).
The NSIC provides inpatient care to 30% of adult spinal cord injuries within NHS England and is the leading provider of paediatric spinal cord injury services. The NSIC at Stoke Mandeville Hospital pioneered the rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury and the psychology team is an active contributor to the ongoing research and innovation of the Centre, with over 150 publications in peer reviewed journals, textbooks, and an increasing portfolio of research impact including podcasts, policy/guideline development and social media engagements.
Testimonial from a previous Band 7 and 8a team member after family relocation: ”Genuinely the best decision as a newly qualified - the quality of applied psychology I gained from working alongside such skilled and supportive colleagues at the NSIC was the absolute best start to my career”.
The NSIC Psychology Team is part of a wider BHT Psychological Services Team of 31 psychological therapists working across Buckinghamshire.
Working for our organisation
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! - https://bit.ly/3DNEQfD
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Proposed interview date: May/June 2023
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Person Specification and both Band 7 and 8a Job Descriptions by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate doctoral qualification in Clinical Psychology recognised by the BPS.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the British Psychological Society.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Post doctoral training (e.g. in a therapeutic model)
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Supervised experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working as a psychologist in a multidisciplinary setting
- Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of teaching and training
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
- Experience or interest in working across the lifespan including adults, older adults and CYP
- Assessed Experience of working as a Psychologist / Psychological Therapist at a specialist level.
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision of a range of health care professionals.
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups including complex risk assessment
- Experience within an acute hospital environment, representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Demonstrated expertise in Clinical Health Psychology.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Skills in assessing people with complex psychological, health and social difficulties
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.)
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Special circumstances
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Enthusiasm for the application of psychological models in an acute hospital setting.
- Passion for working in multidisciplinary teams and improving team working
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jane Duff
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01296 838355
- Additional information
Applicants are welcome to contact Dr Jane Duff for further information - 01296 838355 or email [email protected]
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