Job summary
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, experienced practitioner psychologist to the multi-disciplinary cardiac rehabilitation service at Guy's and St Thomas'. This is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding psychology service within cardiology. You will provide assessment, therapeutic interventions, educational consultations and psychological support to people that have experienced a cardiac event and have mental health/ psychological difficulties in relation to their event and/or management of their condition. The provision of 1:1 and group evidence-based psychological interventions to promote psychological well-being in physical health is a key requirement.
In addition to direct patient contact, you will have the opportunity to contribute more broadly to the strategic development and delivery of cardiac psychology services. You may also have the opportunity to provide supervision to trainee psychologists and postgraduate students.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality, safe and highly specialist psychology service for the cardiac rehabilitation service based at St Thomas' Hospital.
To work autonomously developing pathways for psychology across GSTT and the wider directorate engaging with multidisciplinary teams within and across services and directorate when appropriate.
To work within a stepped-care model managing demand for clinical service and reporting and making recommendations regarding service provision.
To develop and deliver group and individual therapy and also consider using technology to enhance engagement built in an effective and cost-effective model of care.
To offer psychological assessment and formulation led and evidence-based treatment to cardiac patients.
To provide supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and junior staff inter and multidisciplinary if required.
About us
Organisational Values:
Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand andreflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.
The post holder will:
- Caring
- Ambitious
- Inclusive
Our values and behaviours framework|describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details please review the additional documents provided: Job Description and Personal Specification.
Interviews are scheduled for 27th January
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details please review the additional documents provided: Job Description and Personal Specification.
Interviews are scheduled for 27th January
Person Specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)
- Eligibility for Chartered status with the BPS.
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Previous experience
Essential
- Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring across at least 2 populations utilising at least 2 therapeutic models including CBT.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions using evidence based psychological approaches
- Experience of providing professional and clinical supervision to qualified and pre-qualified psychologists or similar.
- Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist with a wide variety of client groups, and across the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups in various settings.
- Experience of teaching and training other professionals in psychological concepts.
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients with physical health problems and a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist in a cardiology/cardiac rehabilitation service
- Experience of delivering trauma focused psychological interventions i.e. using CBT or EMDR
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural environment.
Skills
Essential
- Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Highly developed communication skills, both written and verbally, with the ability to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS. This may require negotiating, persuading, motivating, training, reassuring others and demonstrating empathy.
- Specialist knowledge in a minimum of two evidence based psychological interventions through supervised clinical practice and specialist training.
- Significant experience and ability to undertake risk assessment of client in relation to self and others, and refer on to appropriate services as necessary.
- Ability to supervise psychologists and psychology trainees having completed the relevant training.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
- 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 distressing and emotive material, as well as, challenging behaviours.
- Well developed IT skills including data entry and analysis of research data using Microsoft programmes.
- The post holder may be required to travel between sites.
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge and understanding of psychological impact of cardiac events and the psychological needs of these patients.
- Excellent presentation skills.Highly developed specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in physical health.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Ability to maintain periods of prolonged concentration frequently throughout the day as required for complex methods of psychological assessment and delivery of interventions. // Able to walk around the hospital environment, and travel between bases
Person Specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)
- Eligibility for Chartered status with the BPS.
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Previous experience
Essential
- Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring across at least 2 populations utilising at least 2 therapeutic models including CBT.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions using evidence based psychological approaches
- Experience of providing professional and clinical supervision to qualified and pre-qualified psychologists or similar.
- Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist with a wide variety of client groups, and across the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups in various settings.
- Experience of teaching and training other professionals in psychological concepts.
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients with physical health problems and a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist in a cardiology/cardiac rehabilitation service
- Experience of delivering trauma focused psychological interventions i.e. using CBT or EMDR
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural environment.
Skills
Essential
- Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Highly developed communication skills, both written and verbally, with the ability to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS. This may require negotiating, persuading, motivating, training, reassuring others and demonstrating empathy.
- Specialist knowledge in a minimum of two evidence based psychological interventions through supervised clinical practice and specialist training.
- Significant experience and ability to undertake risk assessment of client in relation to self and others, and refer on to appropriate services as necessary.
- Ability to supervise psychologists and psychology trainees having completed the relevant training.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
- 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 distressing and emotive material, as well as, challenging behaviours.
- Well developed IT skills including data entry and analysis of research data using Microsoft programmes.
- The post holder may be required to travel between sites.
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge and understanding of psychological impact of cardiac events and the psychological needs of these patients.
- Excellent presentation skills.Highly developed specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in physical health.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Ability to maintain periods of prolonged concentration frequently throughout the day as required for complex methods of psychological assessment and delivery of interventions. // Able to walk around the hospital environment, and travel between bases
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
