Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This is an opportunity to work in the Clinical Health Psychology Service grouping within NHCT. This opportunity has arisen to cover maternity leave within the Obs and Gynae Health Psychology service in a secondment or fixed term post for 12 months. This will involve outpatient work predominantly based at Wansbeck General Hospital, but may include working at other trust sites.
To provide high quality, effective applied psychology services to the Health Psychology services.
To provide effective psychological assessment and interventions to the patients of the service.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to trust policies.
To undertake R&D activities for audit, policy and service development in conjunction with service leads.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
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.
Clinicians are supported to develop a wide range of skills beyond the direct clinical role. This may include service redesign and quality improvement, evaluation, and audit with the aim of contributing to the service’s quality and safety monitoring and developing clinical leadership skills. Contribution to service wide projects is planned as part of competency acquisition and may include future projects such as service user collaboration. To facilitate our work, psychologists in the service are supported with a clear structure of clinical supervision, adapted to clinical interest and personal development plans. Supervision is provided individually and through specialist model supervision groups with expert supervisors (for example EMDR ).
Contributions to the Practice Update programme with the dissemination of information of training, conferences, or Trust events that you have attended or presentations on special interests that you may have.
The post holder will work autonomously within British Psychological Society and NHS Trust professional guidelines. Applicants will be HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist. Applicants must have completed a Doctoral level Postgraduate training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or hold a BPS Statement of Equivalence. Applicants with a doctorate in Health Psychology will be considered if they can demonstrate comparable clinical experience, skills and competencies that are acquired in the clinical element of Clinical or Counselling Psychology doctorates. This is an essential requirement.
The geographical base is Wansbeck General Hospital in Ashington, but post holders will be required to work across the Trust-wide footprint of Northumberland and North Tyneside. Post-holders will therefore be expected to work routinely across the main sites in the Trust and undertake such travel as part of the job

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