Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join the clinical health psychology services into join the clinical health psychology services at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT) in a new post to provide a psychology service within our Heart Failure service.
This role provides an excellent opportunity for leadership and service development alongside a range of clinical activities and indirect working within a broad and active multidisciplinary team. There is ample opportunity for research within the heart failure service, as well as opportunities for training and supervision. The department offers regular internal /external CPD events. The post-holder will be working alongside clinical psychologists working in other cardiology services and will receive regular supervision /support.
We are looking to recruit an HCPC-registered, highly specialist clinical psychologist experienced in working with people with physical health conditions keen to broaden their expertise within an enthusiastic and innovative team.
Main duties of the job
1) Provision of evidence-based and theoretically driven, specialised clinical health psychology interventions to adults experiencing psychological difficulties in relation to their cardiac condition.
2) Working effectively and collaboratively with colleagues within the multidisciplinary team.
3) Opportunity to utilise skills in service development and leadership within the MDT and beyond within ICHT and West London NHS
4) Opportunity for audit and research within an active academic department and leading in innovation in heart failure care delivery
5) Provision of clinical supervision, relevant training and teaching to clinical psychologists and other health professionals.
5) Opportunity to participate in sector and regional networks to advise on larger scale issues including access and equity of care and delivery of heart failure care.
6) Opportunity for research and data analysis via collaboration and support from R&D team, service lines and peer groups within West London NHS.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be part of the Clinical Health Psychology and Neuropsychology Department, based at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The post holder will develop and deliver a psychology service within ICHNT Heart Failure Service. They will receive regular supervision and be well supported by more senior clinical psychologists within the department. The role involves working with staff and patients, contributing to stepped care for the emotional support of patients who are experiencing psychological difficulties in relation to their cardiac condition. The direct clinical work with patients will include the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment, diagnosis, treatment and onward referral. The role may also involve the development and provision of group interventions. Indirect work with other health professionals will include secondary consultation about the psychological aspects of a persons care, offering advice about the management of complex patients in multidisciplinary team meetings, providing staff support, teaching and supervision.
There will be regular direct patient facing work in terms of outpatient clinics but it is expected that on occasion, inpatient review will be needed. The post holder will be expected to attend the weekly heart failure MDT and work collaboratively alongside colleagues within the MDT. There is the ample opportunity to undertake research and audit as part of the team; leadership and management work will be supported. Several team members are also involved in wider sector, regional and national heart failure roles so there is opportunity for the post holder to be involved in this aspect of leadership should they wish.
The post holder will be working autonomously, within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Departments and Trusts policies and procedures. The post holder will be encouraged to utilise research skills for audit and research projects relevant to the service.
The post holder will also be involved in teaching, training and clinical supervision of clinical psychologists and other health professionals.
Further details on the main duties and responsibilities of the post can be found in the attached JD document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be part of the Clinical Health Psychology and Neuropsychology Department, based at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The post holder will develop and deliver a psychology service within ICHNT Heart Failure Service. They will receive regular supervision and be well supported by more senior clinical psychologists within the department. The role involves working with staff and patients, contributing to stepped care for the emotional support of patients who are experiencing psychological difficulties in relation to their cardiac condition. The direct clinical work with patients will include the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment, diagnosis, treatment and onward referral. The role may also involve the development and provision of group interventions. Indirect work with other health professionals will include secondary consultation about the psychological aspects of a persons care, offering advice about the management of complex patients in multidisciplinary team meetings, providing staff support, teaching and supervision.
There will be regular direct patient facing work in terms of outpatient clinics but it is expected that on occasion, inpatient review will be needed. The post holder will be expected to attend the weekly heart failure MDT and work collaboratively alongside colleagues within the MDT. There is the ample opportunity to undertake research and audit as part of the team; leadership and management work will be supported. Several team members are also involved in wider sector, regional and national heart failure roles so there is opportunity for the post holder to be involved in this aspect of leadership should they wish.
The post holder will be working autonomously, within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Departments and Trusts policies and procedures. The post holder will be encouraged to utilise research skills for audit and research projects relevant to the service.
The post holder will also be involved in teaching, training and clinical supervision of clinical psychologists and other health professionals.
Further details on the main duties and responsibilities of the post can be found in the attached JD document.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training or its equivalent) in Clinical Psychology, or Health Psychology, leading to eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in a relevant area
- Training in motivational interviewing or other specific behaviour change techniques
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working in a clinical health psychology setting.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- 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.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people with cardiac conditions.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of using structured techniques for promotion of health behaviour change such as motivational interviewing.
- Experience of running structured psycho-educational group-based interventions
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the 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 non-professional 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 required by the HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialized psychological therapies.
OTHER
Essential
- 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 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.
- Ability to travel across Trust sites of Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training or its equivalent) in Clinical Psychology, or Health Psychology, leading to eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in a relevant area
- Training in motivational interviewing or other specific behaviour change techniques
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working in a clinical health psychology setting.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- 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.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people with cardiac conditions.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of using structured techniques for promotion of health behaviour change such as motivational interviewing.
- Experience of running structured psycho-educational group-based interventions
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the 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 non-professional 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 required by the HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialized psychological therapies.
OTHER
Essential
- 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 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.
- Ability to travel across Trust sites of Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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).
