Psychologist jobs in United Kingdom

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 0.6 WTE Senior Clinical Psychologist to join the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a psychological therapy service for the adult HIV service. Supported by a wider team, this post carries with it an opportunity to work somewhat independently, as the sole Clinician providing therapeutic input into this specialist area. There will be opportunities for direct clinical work alongside consultation and liaison with the wider MDT. In addition, this post carries with it opportunities to link with charities and external organisations relating to the care and treatment of this patient group.

Please note that this vacancy will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, which may be before the closing date on Wednesday 23rd April 2025.

To provide a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychology service to adult patients, across all sites and sectors of care by:

1. Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy,
2. Offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers,
3. Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects within the area served by the team/service,
4. Working autonomously in the execution of these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients' care.
2. To formulate, develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical 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.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of people under the medical services, across settings and agencies serving the patient group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, with particular reference to deliberate self-harm.
9. To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health care setting) including patients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a more senior clinical/counselling psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical/counselling psychology and the service (as agreed with the Lead Psychologist and Head of Department) up to two sessions per week.
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work as appropriate.
4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of doctoral trainee and graduate/assistant psychologists.
5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate.
6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team, specialty and department operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both the service and the Lead Psychologist on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant graduate psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/specialty and Department policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists.

1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To undertake, as a major component of the post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research, and to disseminate appropriate material via presentation and publication.
3. To lead on research projects within the area served by the team/service.
4. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
5. To provide appropriate research supervision of doctoral trainees and graduate assistant psychologists.

• Ability to exercise the full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment within the clinical specialty and to co-ordinate the psychological care provided by others.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and others.
• Ability to provide emotional support and professional mentorship to multi-disciplinary team members.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific difficult to treat groups.

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of working within activity and waiting list targets.
• Experience of working in medical multi-disciplinary teams and offering systemic interpretations to have impact on the team functioning in patient care.
• Experience of working with adults with chronic illness and their families.

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
• Further training in a specialised area of clinical practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) or a combination of specialist short courses together with an evidenced portfolio.
• Completion of (or completion by the time of starting the post) formal clinical supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.