Senior Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

The Medical Psychology service provides psychological assessment, support, and treatment to medical patients within South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Within this, the long-term conditions (LTC) workstream currently provides psychology and psychological therapy to 9 services across South Tees trust, including: pain management, rheumatology, renal, CFS/ME, post-covid, Specialist Weight Management, HIV, burns and plastics, diabetes.

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a Senior Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to provide specialist clinical services, supervision, and leadership within the long-term conditions workstream, alongside the Consultant Psychologist in LTC. The post holder will have responsibilities for providing leadership within specific area(s) of the workstream.

The post holder will take a lead on specific audit and service evaluation projects and will be involved in service development projects with the aim of expanding the workstream in line with national guidelines and standards. The post will also involve line management and clinical supervision of other staff.

Applicants will need to have had experience of working in one or more long-term conditions services.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

1. Your Leadership Impact
2. Leading your Team to Success
3. Leading Into the Future
4. Service Improvement for Beginners
5. Developing your Service Improvement Skills
6. Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• To demonstrate expert knowledge of psychological principles relevant to the clinical specialism, through both direct clinical contribution and as a resource to the whole of the multidisciplinary team in terms of patient management.
• Detailed knowledge of the skills and competencies of delivery of at least one evidenced based model of psychological therapy relevant to working with patients with physical health conditions (e.g. CBT, ACT, CFT).
• Psychologists - Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Psychological Therapists - Detailed knowledge of the skills and competencies of delivery of at least one evidence based model of psychological therapy (e.g. CBT)
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatments of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
• Experience of carrying out successful audit, research, and service development projects.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as an individual practitioner and also within the context of multidisciplinary care.

Qualifications

Essential

• Psychologists - Minimum psychology degree 2:1
• Psychologists - Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), Counselling or Health Psychology as accredited by the BPS & /or HCPC.
• Psychologists - Post-doctoral training in the supervision of trainee Psychologists
• Psychologists - HCPC Registration as a Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychologist
• Psychologists - Post-doctoral training in a therapeutic approach (e.g. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) relevant to the psychological needs of medical patients (at least level 1 training)
• Psychological Therapists - A recorded/registered qualification in a core health or social care profession at graduate level (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or have passed the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (KSA) pre-requisite criteria as recognised by the BABCP prior to undertaking the post-graduate training as a High Intensity Therapist
• Psychological Therapists - Completed post-graduate training as a High Intensity Therapist sufficient to meet the required knowledge, skills and attitudes at a level required for BABCP accreditation.
• Psychological Therapists - Current registration with the BABCP as a Psychological Therapist

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to meet the requirements of clinical governance in the maintenance of high standards of clinical practice in the context of regular exposure to highly distressing experiences and unpleasant working conditions.

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW

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