Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

3 weeks ago


Chesterfield Derbyshire, United Kingdom Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to play a central part in developing and expanding our psychologically informed obesity service to incorporate more consultation and group offers.

You will promote lifestyle approaches to weight loss and would also be supporting others in the development of their psychological skills.

A psychologically led service we want to develop some new treatment pathways and resource development. Playing a consultative role to our weight management advisors you will need to take a positive approach to your work to engage with others.

You will have a chance to work jointly with other psychology colleagues as well as a wider MDT.

A key part of the role involves one day into the acute hospital setting in Derby where you will work with the MDT on complex referrals and those patients considering bariatric surgery.

We would accept applications from newly qualified Practitioner Psychologists to join on Band 7 progression post with a clear route through to Band 8A.

Main duties of the job

Main aspects of the role will be

1-1 assessment, formulation, and intervention with individuals with obesity.

Co-production of group-based interventions for our Tier 3 service based on the current and emerging evidence base around psychological approaches (i.e. Acceptance& Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, other health behaviour change models)

You'll enjoy developing your supervision skills when supporting our weight management advisors with their core weight loss messaging.

Contributing to the development of consultative/ systemic approaches to support patients in their weight loss journeys, perhaps working with families and carers.

Your enthusiastic and creative approach to your work along with a commitment to making Tier 3 services more accessible will be more relevant perhaps that already having experience with obesity.

You'll need to be familiar with health behaviour change models and be accustomed to or open to working with different care providers.

About us

Our current team is small and supportive with everyone having a key, valued role in our service delivery.

You will join an ever-expanding department which includes Health Psychology Psychologists and allied professionals working into Public Health cancer services and a Diabetes Education Team.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Education, Qualification & Training

Essential


  • Good honours degree in Psychology. Eligibility for Graduate membership of BPS
  • Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer as accredited by the B.P.S). Those coming through other practitioner psychology post graduate routes must have equivalent accreditation with a professional body.
  • You must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist and entitled to use the title 'Clinical Psychologist' and be chartered with the BPS or A full member of the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK. Registration with an equivalent professional body required for those coming through alternative practitioner psychology routes.

Experience and Knowledge Required

Essential


  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a broad range of health psychology settings
  • Experience and/or substantial relevant pre-qualification experience
  • Extensive experience of using both conventional (e.g. CBT) and innovative therapies
  • Experience of providing consultation, supervision and training to psychology and other health care staff.

Skills and Attributes

Essential


  • Ability to provide consultation to other non-psychology colleagues, and teaching and training skills
  • Good written communication skills with the ability to tailor these to varying contexts
  • Excellent IT skills
  • Ability to fulfil travel requirements for the post, travel between bases during the working day

Aptitude and Personal Qualities

Essential


  • Possess an enthusiasm for Health Psychology

Values, Drivers and Motivators

Essential


  • Values consistent with delivering excellent psychological services

Employer details

Employer name

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT

Address

Walton Hospital

Whitecotes Lane

Chesterfield

S40 3HW

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