Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health psychology and / or level 2 post-graduate qualification in CBT
• Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (Practitioner Psychologist)
• BABCP accreditation (full or provisional)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified / trainee clinical / counselling psychologist / practitioner health psychologist and/or CBT therapist
• Experience of specialist biopsychosocial assessment and delivery of psychological and / or motivational interventions with patients in primary care, community, or acute hospital settings
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, presenting with a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings including outpatient and/or community and/or primary care, and/or in-patient settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Experience of undertaking risk assessments
• Experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments
• Experience of running patient support groups

Desirable

• Clinical experience in assessment and working psychologically with patients living with obesity in a community and/or acute hospital setting
• Experience of running patient therapy/education/information groups

Skills & Aptitudes

Essential

• Knowledge of and ability to implement behaviour change techniques and interventions as applied to healthy eating and physical exercise
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations
• Ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to patients and professional persons within and outside the NHS
• Ability to act as a practitioner psychologist / CBT therapist and work autonomously in hospital settings
• High level knowledge of psychology research design and methodology within physical health settings
• Evidence of ongoing professional development in line with HCPC/BPS/BABCP requirements

Royal Free shared commitments

Essential

• o Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Free Hospital

Pond Street

London

NW3 2QG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)