Principal Clinical Psychologist

2 weeks ago


Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychologist to join the Gastrointestinal (GI) Clinical Psychology team, working as part of the Clinical Health Psychology service at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

**Main duties of the job**:
The postholder will:

- Provide specialist assessment and treatment recommendations for individuals accessing the GI psychology service. Service users may have diverse and complex health comorbidities, comorbid mental health problems and complex trauma presentations.
- Lead in the service delivery across a range of GI medical conditions, in consultation with the service lead.
- Provide clinical supervision to the GI Psychology service clinicians and adopt management responsibilities for an Assistant Psychologist.
- Provide placements for Trainee Clinical Psychologists and oversee the supervision of placements offered.
- Contribute to service design and the development of clinical pathways and development of business cases to maintain capacity for this rapidly growing service in consultation with the service lead.
- Lead on several of the areas of the GI service as a special interest, developing links with specialist nurses, members of the medical team, relevant special interest groups.
- Develop teaching for the university Clin Psy D Programmes, Health psychology course and the IAPT training in the specialist area of GI Psychology.

We can offer:

- A friendly, warm and proactive team of clinicians who embrace learning and professional development.
- A well-established department providing psychological therapy to a range of health specialties.
- Support and supervision from Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Opportunities for peer support
- Excellent administrative, IT facilities and support

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Care Organisation is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Current and valid Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration.
- Professional Doctorate qualification in Clinical/ Counselling/Health Psychology
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in relation to complex gastrointestinal and/or long-term physical health conditions

**Desirable criteria**:

- Training in 3rd wave psychological therapies
- Training in trauma-focused CBT or EMDR

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Significant experience of providing a psychological service to individuals with physical health difficulties,

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Substantial post-qualification experience, including work within a physical health setting

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of supervising qualified Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychologists and/or supervising other equivalently qualified psychological therapists working in physical health settings.

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of providing clinical supervision for psychological interventions and treatments within a healthcare setting

**COVID-19 Vaccination Information**
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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.


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