Clinical Counselling Psychologist

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

There are exciting career opportunities in the Clinical Health Psychology Service grouping within NHCT. 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.
If you are soon to be qualified candidates or have less experience please contact us before making an application, as we also have a Preceptorship scheme allowing the development of competencies and progress to AfC band 8a. Level of banding appointment would be assessed on experience and competencies both from the application form and at interview.
This position will be based within the Living Well with Pain service and linked to the Long Term Health conditions section of the Clinical Health Psychology service. There is also the opportunity to work into the Persistent Physical Symptoms child health service. 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.
The LWWP service is closely allied to the other specialties within the Clinical Health Psychology grouping, and in accordance with career interests and competency development there will opportunities to develop skills in other areas.

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.

• 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. Diabetes, Respiratory, Cardiology).
• To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical health psychology service to clients of the service team and relevant healthcare professionals.
• 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 clinical health psychology practice within the service/team.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

Please refer the Job description for details