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Clinical Health Psychologist

1 month ago


Torquay, Torbay, United Kingdom Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Clinical Psychologist to join our Paediatric Clinical Health Psychology team as a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist for 4 days a week. The successful candidate will have a strong interest in working with children, young people, and families, and experience in health settings is highly desirable.

The post involves supporting children, young people, and their families through specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, indirect work including providing consultation, supervision, and training to multi-disciplinary staff, and utilising research skills for audit, policy, and service development.

Main Duties of the Job
  • To enhance psychologically informed care through the direct delivery of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based psychological interventions for children and young people with physical health difficulties and their families.
  • To provide indirect support through interventions such as teaching, training, and consultation with teams and non-psychologically trained practitioners, and service development.
  • To work autonomously, within the Trust's and the HCPC's and the BPS's professional guidelines, as well as liaise and work closely with paediatric colleagues and other staff who work internal and external to the Trust and who provide services to children, young people, and their carers and families.
About Us

We are a progressive service and are passionate about the uniqueness of Clinical Health Psychology. You will work within the Paediatric Clinical Health Psychology team as part of the wider Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) service.

As a Trust, we have introduced agile working and as a Directorate, we are committed to supporting our teams and colleagues in adopting this approach. The team have been trained in ACT and EMDR and there is a strong commitment to both evidence and practice-based short-term interventions.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

  • Eligibility for BPS Chartered Clinical Psychologist status
  • Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
  • A post-graduate doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology

Desirable

  • Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level
  • Additional specialist training in assessment and intervention with children and young people with chronic health conditions such as diabetes
  • Additional training in psychological therapies relevant to paediatric psychology such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systemic therapies or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Accredited supervisor training

Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • Demonstrate post qualification experience of working as a clinical / counselling / health psychologist with children and families where there are psychological and physical health concerns
  • Demonstrate post qualification experience of using a range of specialist psychology assessment skills, which include risk assessment
  • Demonstrate post qualification experience of developing and providing specialist psychology interventions and intervention packages for children, young people, and their carers and families
  • Demonstrate post qualification experience of working within multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings
  • Demonstrate post qualification experience of providing consultation to healthcare staff and professional and nonprofessional groups
  • Demonstrate post qualification experience of providing teaching and training to other psychologists and other unqualified and qualified groups
  • Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
  • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical / counselling / health psychology
  • Knowledge of legislation relevant to the client group

Desirable

  • Experience of working within an Acute hospital setting
  • Experience of providing supervision to other psychologists and to other professionals who work with children and young people and their carers and families
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to physical illness and or disability, particularly diabetes
  • Knowledge of quality improvement methods and experience of implementing and maintaining service developments
  • Experience of line managing psychology staff and/or other professionals

Specific Skills

Essential

  • A high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as stated by HCPC and as recommended by the BPS
  • Keen to develop research interests
  • Able to be flexible and adapt to the changing needs of the service
  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's values

Employer details

Employer name

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Parkes Unit
Newton Road
Torbay
TQ2 7AA

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