Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (We would welcome applications from psychologists currently working at 8a and looking for development opportunities, and from applicants wishing to combine this opportunity with others available within our Trust)
- Hours
- Part time - 27 hours per week
- Job ref
- 287-AMED-121-24
- Employer
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Aintree Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Band 8b
Job overview
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service
to clients for the locality.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment to clients.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other
psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based
care and treatment.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the
systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
To support the co-ordination of the specialist therapeutic activity within the team and
participate in the dissemination of skills to the wider service.
To utilise research skills to support audit, policy, service development and research. To
propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
To deputise for the Clinical Lead/Team Leader in his/her absence
This post is for the Gastroenterology Clinical Psychology Service at Aintree Hospital, which focuses on providing psychological interventions to support patients diagnosed with a Gastrointestinal Disorder who are experiencing psychological distress secondary to this diagnosis.
We would welcome applications from psychologists currently working at 8a and looking for development opportunities, and from applicants wishing to combine this opportunity with others available within our Trust.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological assessments (including risk assessment) of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification training/accreditation in assessment measures/protocols/methods; for example; chronic disease management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level within a physical health setting.
- Experience of supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups within physical health, across the life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community and in-patient settings including 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of supervision of qualified clinical and/or counselling psychologists
- Experience in using psychological measures in the assessment of parenting
- Experience of providing expert witness reports and testimony in family court proceedings.
- Experience in forensic risk assessments and forensic psychological assessment tools
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of clinical caseload management within a team setting.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
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 and severely challenging behaviours etc.).
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies related to the treatment of children and families within the specialist field of maltreatment.
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Laura Binsale
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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