Clinical Health Psychologist

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Job title: Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Salary: Band 8a (depending on previous experience)

Job type: Permanent

Part-time: 15 hours per week

We are delighted to offer the exciting opportunity to join the Women's Health psychology service within Whittington Health (WH). We are looking for an enthusiastic, skillful clinical health or counselling psychologist to provide psychological input to women from antenatal, fertility and gynaecology services. The successful candidate will have clinical experience in the area of physical health care, both with individuals and groups. You will collaborate with colleagues and clients to assess needs and deliver innovative interventions which empower clients and promote self-efficacy. You will need to be able to work independently and to maintain a degree of flexibility to accommodate competing demands when they arise. The post-holder will become part of the dynamic and friendly clinical health psychology team who meet regularly to maximize their team working and mutual learning.

Main duties of the job

This senior role involves leading and contributing to the provision of a psychology service to adults under the care of the WH antenatal, fertility and gynaecology services. The postholder will work with MDT clinicians to support the Trust's targets of integrated care by facilitating a holistic approach to healthcare, identifying and addressing mental health challenges that impact during pregnancy and whilst under fertility and gynaecology pathways.

The psychologist will be able to work independently and flexibly, providing specialist psychological assessment, clinical formulation, intervention and management recommendations to patients, families and other staff in an outpatient setting. The postholder is invited to work creatively, drawing on a range of approaches ( systemic, narrative, CBT, ACT) in individual or group work, to engage clients to help build their coping resources and support networks.

The post involves working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures; using research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

The postholder will become part of the lively, welcoming Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) team where there are exciting opportunities for mutual learning, service development and continuing professional development. The CHP and Women's Health teams value and celebrate diversity and welcome candidates from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

About us

At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.

By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart. Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses. Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors. Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff. We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more. Generous Annual Leave Allowance We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars:

We are kind We are respectful We work together We keep things simple We empower We are proudly diverse Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

provide specialist psychological assessments using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate, for clients referred from antenatal, fertility and gynaecology Whittington Health services.

formulate and provide specialist psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients, working with carers and significant others as needed, using a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches.

3. To manage individual caseload autonomously and professionally.

4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, psychosocial and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans and to make appropriate referrals onwards as necessary.

6. To devise and deliver group-based interventions, leading in the development and provision of psychoeducational and other groups as needed.

7. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.

8. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.

9. To work closely and communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of effective and evidence-based interventions.

10. To undertake complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

11. To attend and contribute to referral, multidisciplinary and service operational meetings. To maximize opportunities for mutual learning with MDT colleagues to inform clinical work.

12. To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies within and outside of the NHS, in the care provided to clients.

TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION

To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. To contribute to the teaching and training of non-psychology staff in psychological skills as appropriate. To provide advice, consultation and training to other health and social care staff working with the client group, where appropriate. To provide professional and clinical supervision and leadership to junior qualified psychologists, trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists where required. To participate in an agreed programme of post-qualification training and professional development towards developing advanced knowledge and practice. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and clinical supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or other applied psychologists, as appropriate. To facilitate reflective practice sessions for the Womens Health teams, including working with challenging cases, as needed and requested. To contribute through consultation and training to the psychological understanding and ways of workings of other multidisciplinary and multi-professional teams within the service.

MANAGEMENT, RECRUITMENT, POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

To use specialist knowledge, experience and skills to support the development of the service, to provide a key role in psychological aspects of service development across Whittington Health Womens Health and beyond and to provide a key role in better meeting the psychological needs of patients across Whittington Health. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the Womens Health services where psychological and/or organisational matters are relevant. To manage junior and assistant psychologists within the service and in training posts within the framework of the team and service's policies and procedures. To be involved in the short listing and interviewing of psychological staff as appropriate. To be an active participant in all multi-disciplinary forums related to the delivery of Womens Health psychology services MDTs, clinical forums, referral meetings, case discussions and research meetings.

RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION

To bring doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work, group work and work with other team members. To lead on and regularly engage in audit, research and service evaluation activities relevant to service and patient needs. Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the HCPC. Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist

Experience

Essential

Completion of substantial post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical health psychology experience working with clients in the area of obstetrics, fertility, gynaecology and/or a related client group. Experience of working as a psychologist within a physical health multi-disciplinary team

Knowledge

Essential

Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with physical health conditions. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with physical health conditions.

Skills and abilities

Essential

Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues

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