Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Health Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6441416MH
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
There are exciting career opportunities in the Clinical Health Psychology Service grouping within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. These opportunities have arisen due to service growth and redesign. It includes services in both in-patient, out-patient and community settings. We are currently expanding into a range of innovative areas and exploring cutting-edge ways of embedding psychology into teams to support patient care. There are opportunities suitable for both newly qualified and more experienced psychologists.
For this post we would be interested in receiving applications from qualified candidates with established clinical experience looking to looking to progress their career. Experience in pain management psychology would be desirable, though not essential. Knowledge of working in cardiac rehabilitation would also be helpful.
Main duties of the job
This position will be based within the Long Term Health conditions section of the Clinical Health Psychology services grouping. The role is split across the cardiology psychology service and the Living Well with Pain service and therefore offers the perfect opportunity to develop skills in working in a variety of settings in physical health care. You would also be working alongside psychologists in other specialties with opportunities for cross specialty working, for example in the delivery of group interventions. The work is varied, including individual and joint assessment, individual and group interventions, and participation in the triage and screening processes of referral management. You will also work closely with clinicians from other professions. All members of the grouping contribute to service developments, evaluation and audit projects and the supervision of others, including doctorate trainees.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a high quality, comprehensive and effective clinical health psychology service to all relevant aspects of one or more designated physical health specialisms (e.g. Cardiology, Pain).
- To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical health psychology service to clients of the service team and relevant healthcare professionals.
- To work with the clinicians of the wider clinical team (nurses, physios etc), offering consultation and supervision, and practice education
- To represent the service within the wider Trust organisation and networks
- To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant and trainee clinical psychologists working within one or more designated specialisms and to contribute to the supervision of clinical psychologists working within the designated specialism.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of your own practice and contribute to the governance of the service or team.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field
- Doctorate in clinical or counselling or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the range of care settings
- Experience of working with: a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course. - presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post
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 Gail Dovery-Pearce
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912934193
- Additional information
Dr Louise Hamilton, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Service Lead, Living Well with Pain
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