Senior Clinical Psychologist

2 weeks ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist with experience of working in physical healthcare to join our well-established, supportive and welcoming Clinical Health Psychology Service. We have good resources for CPD and strong links to Liverpool University, offering opportunities to getting involved in teaching, research and trainee placements.

Liverpool is a great place to live, with fantastic energy and humour, a vibrant cultural life and easy access to the mountains and the sea. We can also offer beautiful architecture, lots of open space, good schools and a lower than average cost of living.

We would welcome applications from applicants wishing to combine this opportunity with others available within our Trust, Please do get in touch if you would like to discuss how this might work for you,

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Main duties of the job

In this role, you will work directly with people who are living with stroke in an acute and hyper-acute setting, collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines and contribute to service development.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Within this role, you will provide maternity cover into a Psychology service to patients following stroke across inpatient sites. You will have the opportunity to work directly with patients on adjustment post-stroke, assessment of cognition and supporting rehabilitation, as well as working indirectly with the stroke-specialist MDT. You will have the opportunity to provide education, training and consultation, as well as contributing to the evaluation and development of the service.

You will also have the opportunity to supervise junior Psychology colleagues. The post-holder will be well-supported, with supervision and support from senior psychology colleagues, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Satisfactory completion of postgraduate doctoral level training in psychology (or its equivalent for those trained before1996) as accredited by the BPS Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Desirable

Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Specialist training or demonstrable expertise in one or more areas of research methodology.

Experience

Essential

Post-qualification experience of working as a practitioner psychologist within the NHS. Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist in a physical health setting. Working with a wide variety of client groups, across the adult life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings including outpatient and in-patient settings. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems. Exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professional working autonomously and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan. Teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. Representing the profession in local policy or planning forums

Desirable

Experience in service development and/or innovation. Membership of national professional or inter-professional groups Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts Experience of research in physical health settings Post-qualification experience of research in physical health setting. Experience of working in a clinical research environment. Post-qualification experience of research

Knowledge

Essential

Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of psychology in the field of physical health, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study, training and/or supervised experience. Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies. Specialist clinical knowledge of psychology in the field of physical health, consistent with previous experience in this setting. Ability to plan, organise and provide teaching and training on relevant psychological topics, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Knowledge of relevant legislation and DoH policy and implementation guidelines, and of the implications of such documentation for clinical practice and professional management in relation to health care in general and cancer services in particular. Evidence of continuing professional development consistent with expected standards of the British Psychological Society. Familiarity with the ethical and professional standards expected of Clinical Psychologists as laid down in the BPS 'Code of Ethics and Conduct (2009), and the BPS Practice Guidelines (2017). Awareness and thorough understanding of the political, social and economic policy framework within which health and mental health services are delivered and an ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the professions of clinical, health and counselling psychology within this context

Desirable

Publication in peer-reviewed clinical or service-related journals. Specialist knowledge of the specialist area.

Skills

Essential

Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability empathically, sensitively and effectively to communicate clinical and condition-related information to patients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated, technical or sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient or that is extremely contentious or challenging. When communicating with patients, carers and colleagues, has the high level interpersonal skills necessary to obtain and convey highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in emotionally charged and extremely emotive settings, in a manner that addresses and overcomes psychological resistance, hostility, antagonism, and problems of motivation and engagement, as well as barriers to understanding arising from cognitive, cultural or linguistic factors Ability to show respect for patients and practitioners, and to build and sustain effective working relationships. A commitment to the integration of research and clinical services including the evaluation of services for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area. Resourcefulness and ability to work independently at a high level and as a member of a team and to deliver team and organisational objectives Adaptable and able to work flexibly when required (particularly in the light of changing service priorities). Capacity for tolerating frustration, change and high levels of demand with an ability to work effectively under pressure. Demonstrable leadership in relation to psychology and other professions. High-level negotiation skills. Computing skills: data processing, word-processing, literature-searching consistent with doctoral training and the need for data-analysis to support audit and research. Excellent verbal and written communication.

Desirable

Evidence of management skills.

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