Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role, including the main duties, responsibilities and essential requirements for this position.

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Doctoral level qualification in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
• Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist or counselling psychologist

Desirable

• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, health psychology and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client 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
• Minimum 18 months post qualification experience of working in a clinical setting, with at least 12 months of which spent in a clinical health psychology speciality.
• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

Desirable

• Experience of ward-based working, ideally within an acute physical health setting.
• Experience of psychological work with people approaching end of life and/or experiencing bereavement.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

Desirable

• Ability to engage people in psychological work who are experiencing complex biopsychosocial problems.
• Ability to work effectively with colleagues within team and hand over pertinent clinical information.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Ability to use Microsoft Word/Excel to produce clinical reports and other documents as required

Knowledge

Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical or counselling psychology.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• An ability to manage time and workload within tight sessional boundaries.
• Experience of service development.
• Experience of audit, project work and research

other

Essential

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• An ability to manage time and workload within tight sessional boundaries.
• Experience of service development.
• Experience of audit, project work and research.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).