Staff Psychology offers psychological interventions to individual staff and staff teams in University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust (UHS) which is a provider of regional and tertiary acute physical care. We work with leaders and teams to think systemically about how they support each and manage operational demands. We also offers individual triage and short term interventions to staff members who are having difficulties at work.The team work closely with our colleagues in Child Psychology, Organisational Development, Chaplaincy, Coaching, Occupational Health and UHS leaders to ensure a responsive, collaborative and embedded approach to supporting staff throughout the Trust.Balancing wellbeing with work demands and developing your professional skills are highly valued within the UHS Adult Psychology team. It offers many opportunities to develop your interest in therapeutic approaches through informal networking, facilitated reflective practice, education days and specialist supervision or discussion groups. Currently we have active interests in Systemic, Acceptance and Commitment, Cognitive Analytic Therapy and EMDR therapeutic approaches. Funded training opportunities are available to all team Psychologists recently these have included EMDR, ACT and CAT.The team can accommodate flexible working with most posts having an element of remote working. The team invite applications for the 4 days working or job share or reduced hours.

Main duties of the job

You will work with the Staff Psychology service to provide a psychology service to UHS Staff. This will include a triage service to staff who contact the service and assessment and intervention for work related issues. Experience in working in a physical health setting and with evidence-based approaches to managing trauma is beneficial.You will also offer reflection practice, supervision, teaching training and consultation to other professionals. You will be supported by a large and friendly team of psychologists who work in clinical health, staff and liaison psychology in UHS and work alongside senior colleagues in Staff Psychology.

Within the team there is a research strategy and research cafes to discuss ideas for research in your area and you will be encouraged to link to national and local groups developing work into staff teams. We have close links with Southampton University Clinical and Health Psychology courses and the research teams both in UHS and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.We have generic job descriptions to assist career development and gaining experience. We would encourage people to contact the team to find out more about the posts and the clinical area. We would be very happy to answer any of your questions.If you would like to find out more information this post, please contact Dr Alison Pearce (Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist for UHS Adults) or Dr Lizzy Pink (Principal Clinical Psychologist in Staff Psychology) by emailing adultpsychology@uhs.nhs.uk.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services. Our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust, is set to launch in July 2024.

The transformation will happen in staggered stages Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning in early May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent Trusts is anticipated to occur in July 2024, when the new organisation will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist

Desirable

• In depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of service development and working with teams.

Experience

Essential

• In depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of service development and working with teams.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of working within a Physical Health Setting and in particular the area that the job is focused on.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working with trauma using evidenced based approaches.
• Experience of working within the NHS as an Applied Psychologist
• Experience of neuropsychological and psychometric Assessment

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• 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 other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• For posts working in medical services, knowledge of the theory and practice of working with the psychological implications of physical health problems. For all services, knowledge of a trauma-informed approach to care.
• Skills in psychological therapies used to work with physical health and trauma such as CBT, ACT, EMDR, mindfulness approaches, Systemic therapies.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Skills in providing psychological consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Demonstrate an understanding of, and a commitment to the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/ ACP.
• Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines
• Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving service user experience.
• Enthusiasm for working within a mental health team as an integrated team member.
• An ability to travel between sites as required.

Desirable

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Skills and competencies in neuropsychological assessment.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southampton General Hospital

Teremona Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 6YD

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