There are exciting career opportunities in the Clinical Health Psychology Service grouping within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. These opportunities have arisen due to service growth and redesign. It includes services in both in-patient, out-patient and community settings. We are currently expanding into a range of innovative areas and exploring cutting-edge ways of embedding psychology into teams to support patient care. There are opportunities suitable for both newly qualified and more experienced psychologists.

For this post we would be interested in receiving applications from qualified candidates looking to looking to progress their career. Experience in working in physical health would be desirable, though not essential. Knowledge of working in pain management would also be helpful.

Main duties of the job

This position will be based within the Long Term Health conditions section of the Clinical Health Psychology services grouping. The role is split across the respiratory and cardiology psychology service and the Living Well with Pain service and therefore offers the perfect opportunity to develop skills in working in a variety of settings in physical health care. You would also be working alongside psychologists in other specialties with opportunities for cross specialty working, for example in the delivery of group interventions. The work is varied, including individual and joint assessment, individual and group interventions, and participation in the triage and screening processes of referral management. You will also work closely with clinicians from other professions. All members of the grouping contribute to service developments, evaluation and audit projects and the supervision of others, including doctorate trainees and assistant psychologists.

About us

NHCT manages three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To provide a high quality, comprehensive and effective clinical health psychology service to all relevant aspects of one or more designated physical health specialisms (e.g. Respiratory, Pain).
• To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical health psychology service to clients of the service team and relevant healthcare professionals.
• To work with the clinicians of the wider clinical team (nurses, physios etc), offering consultation and supervision, and practice education
• To represent the service within the wider Trust organisation and networks
• To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant and trainee clinical psychologists working within one or more designated specialisms and to contribute to the supervision of clinical psychologists working within the designated specialism.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of your own practice and contribute to the governance of the service or team.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree in psychology or related mental health field
• Completion of, or in final stages of completing a doctorate in clinical or counselling or health psychology that confers eligibility for registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields, Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE29 8NH

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