Principal Clinical Psychologist (XR09)

Job description

Job responsibilities

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JOB PURPOSE

To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology management service to trainee clinical psychological staff who are working across all sites and sectors of care by:

Providing specialist psychological management for clinical psychologists in training

Offering advice, supervision and consultation regarding staff well-being for these staff

Developing, supporting and maintaining effective working relationships with other disciplines including HR, OH, University staff

Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects

Proposing and implementing policy changes within the specialist area served

Working autonomously in the delivery of these duties within professional guidelines, the evidence-based literature and the overall framework of the Team, Department of Clinical & Health Psychology and Trust policies and procedures.

JOB DIMENSIONS

Core:

Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations

Develop oneself and contribute to the development of others

Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others

Contribute to the improvement of services

Contribute to improving quality

Promote equality and value diversity.

Health and wellbeing:

Plan, develop and implement approaches to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on health and wellbeing

Assess complex health and wellbeing needs and develop, monitor and review plans to meet those needs

Contribute to protecting people at risk

Monitor and manage physiological and psychological functioning when there are complex and/or undifferentiated abnormalities, diseases and disorders and develop, monitor and review related management plans

Plan, deliver and evaluate management interventions when there are complex issues and/or serious illness.

General:

Plan, deliver and review interventions to enable people to learn and develop

Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment

Prioritise and manage the ongoing work of services and/or projects

Plan, allocate and supervise the work of a team.

Person Specification

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy.

Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society
• Further training in a specialised area of clinical practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent). Or
• A combination of specialist short courses together with an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice
• Completion of formal clinical supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees
• Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (or other domain title as agreed)

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

Experience

Essential

• Assessed significant experience and competencies from working as a qualified clinical psychologist including significant post qualification experience within the designated specialty
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.

Desirable

• Qualified experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams and supervising healthcare staff.
• Experience of working in the role of direct line manager to staff
• Knowledge of specialist therapy models (such as ACT, CFT and EMDR) and their application in staff support
• Experience of representing psychology in meetings with service planners/commissioners to plan the pathways across a variety of services.

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and in context of MDT
• Experience of teaching, training and provision of professional and clinical supervision.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• 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
• 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 recommended by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Desirable

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific difficult to treat groups.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to staff well-being, mental health and the management of NHS staff.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)