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 candidates due to qualify or qualified candidates looking to looking to progress their career. Qualifying candidates would be enrolled on a Preceptorship scheme allowing the development of competencies and progress to band 8a.
This post will be based with the Adult Weight Management service, a multi-disciplinary team working with people referred into a year long programme. The post has been funded through the Managing Obesity Programme and has a focus on health inequalities. The work is varied, including individual and joint assessment, individual and group interventions. Post holders will also contribute to service developments, evaluation and audit projects and the supervision of others, including assistant psychologists and doctorate trainees.
The AWM 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.
There are vacancies in other specialties, please see separate advert. Following interview you may be considered for other available vacancies. Please indicate in the supporting information section on the application form, if you would be interested in being considered for these posts as well.
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 and systemic models).
The service has links with the regional doctorate programmes and competency development will include supervisor training and the supervision of doctorate trainees. Supervision of other psychologists within the service will be part of your role as will be 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, if not already an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, must be undertaking a qualification making them eligible to be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council. Applicants must have completed or be about to complete 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 North Tyneside General Hospital, 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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