Clinical Psychologist- Medical Psychology

Band 8a

**Main area**
- Clinical Psychology: Adult Medical Outpatient Service
- **Grade**
- Band 8a
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Other

37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
- **Job ref**
- 164-4603074-A**Site**
- Cross-site
- **Town**
- Nottingham
- **Salary**
- £48,526 - £54,619 £48526-£54619 per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Band 8a Clinical Psychologist with an interest and post qualification experience of working with medical/chronic health problems.

The post will involve working with adults with a range of medical difficulties/health problems within our relatively new Adult Medical Outpatient Service (AMOS), you will be responsible for developing and providing a range of group programmes for the service, providing specialist psychological assessment and time-limited 1:1 interventions for people living with a range of medical conditions plus offering supervision, consultation and training to other clinical staff.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist with an interest in Clinical Health Psychology who can work show autonomy and resilience. Clinical supervision will be provided by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who leads the AMOS service.

It is essential that the post-holder will have a doctorate level clinical psychology professional qualification and be HCPC registered.

The successful applicant will join an increasing Clinical Psychology Adult Medical Outpatient Service which is part of the Department of Clinical Psychology & Neuropsychology within the trust.

Currently the clinical psychologists and psychology assistants working in the department provide input into a number of medical inpatient and outpatient services within the Trust including: Adult Medical Outpatient, Neurorehabilitation, Stroke and Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus, generic child service, Burns (child and adult), Cystic Fibrosis (child and adult), Child Oncology, Child Neurology Services including children with acquired and traumatic brain injury, Cleft Lip and Palate (child and adult), Haematological Cancers, Major Trauma, Neonatal Intensive Care, Non Epileptic Attack Disorder, Renal (adult and child), Sickle Cell (child and adult), Amputee (Lifespan), MESH/Reproductive Health, Digestive Diseases (Adult), Gastroenterology (Child).

We have excellent links with the University of Nottingham and the Trent Clinical Psychology Doctorate Course.

Working for our organisation

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.

The post holder will be employed by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and will be based predominantly at the Queens Hospital Campus but will be required to work cross Campus. Applicants must have the personal qualities and resilience to be able to work in a busy acute trust setting.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please read the full job description and person specification for the full description of duties.**

A strong interest in clinical health psychology

Enthusiasm for and past experience of developing and delivering group interventions

Evidence of significant knowledge and substantial post doctorate experience of working in clinical health psychology

A good working knowledge and experience of evidence-based 1:1 and group based treatments

Sound clinical risk assessment and management

Experience of working with safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

Experience of supervising therapists and other clinical staff

Person specification

**Qualifications**:
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level (or equivalent) training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- HCPC registration

Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

Experience

Essential criteria
- Experience of working in with people with medical/chronic health conditions
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of developing and delivery group interventions
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team, with other disciplines including medicine and nursing

Desirable criteria
- Meets person specification criteria.

Communication

Essential criteria
- Excellent skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Commit