Consultant Clinical Psychologist

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

CQC: Outstanding

Stratford Upon Avon

Salary

£79,504 – £91,609

Posted

1 weeks ago

About the role

The Department of Clinical Health Psychology are delighted to be recruiting a Consultant Clinical Psychologist tolead and develop the cancer and palliative care psychology services. The post will form part of the senior leadership of our thriving Clinical Health Psychology team, based at Stratford Healthcare. You will be part of a large and supportive team of Clinical Psychologists, psychological practitioners, trainees, trainee CAPs, and assistant psychologists working in physical health. Supervision and support will be provided by an experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the team. The role will involve both face to face and remote working, along with consultation, training and supervision of psychology and MDT staff.You will also be expected to represent the department at local, regional and national level. Our department has strong links with the local Clinical Psychology training courses, and regularly offers specialist third year placements. We encourage research and improvement and there would be scope to utilise these skills in this post. Applications from those interested in job sharing would be welcome as would applications from experienced 8b psychologists ready to move up to consultant level. We value diversity in our team and would warmly welcome applications from people with protected characteristics and we would seek to support those with additional needs where appropriate. Informal discussions about the role would be welcomed.

Person specification

Essential

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, and training in the supervision of other psychologists.
HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist
Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
Experience of working within Clinical Heath Psychology services with clinical experience in at least two specialties for (For example Oncology, Cardiology etc)
Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical 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 service development and leading a service
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Over seven years post qualification experience
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Proven leadership skills
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
High level of ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or 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 nonprofessional groups
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Compassionate and kind values driven approach to patient care.
Communicates openly, honestly transparently and professionally and actively promotes team working and building forming strong working relationships.
Drives service improvements, strong self-awareness with a desire to grow
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
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.

Desirable

Post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists.
Experience of representing the profession in local policy forums
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant client group and the healthcare system.
Experience of working within a multicultural framework.