Job summary
We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our team. You will work closely with the Clinical Lead to provide clinical and managerial leadership for the Specialist Community Psychology Service.
As a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist, you will be responsible for line management and clinical supervision of members of the team. You will deputise for the Clinical Lead where required and will offer advice and consultation to colleagues within the team and to referrers. You will also provide a specialist clinical service to patients, providing psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
The Specialist Community Psychology Service works with patients whose needs sit between NHS Talking Therapies services and Secondary Care. The team consists of psychological therapists and clinical psychologists and provides individualised assessments, formulation and psychological therapies including CBT, EMDR, CAT, ACT, emotion regulation and brief solution focused therapy. We have good links with Newcastle University and have a rotation of first year DClinPsy students on placement.
- Interview Date 22/09/2023
- 22 Hours/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for highly experienced Clinical Psychologist. Applicants must demonstrate essential requirements from the job description, key elements of this include:
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology and HCPC registration
- Post graduate training relevant to this post (eg CBT, CAT, ACT, EMDR etc)
- Clinical experience of working with adults with complex mental health needs
- Supervision, management and recruitment skills
This post is based in Newcastle upon Tyne and you will provide psychological therapy services via face to face, telephone and video clinics. Some evening work is an essential part of this role. In house supervision is provided.
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
Rated 'Outstanding' by theCQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Takes appropriate responsibility for clinical psychology provision to the service in which this post is located and supports the provision of a stand-alone service including demand/waiting list management, reporting and making recommendations regarding service provision. Is expected to manage the care of the most challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting within this part of the service. Is required to provide supervision of clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.
- Provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service across all sectors of care to the population served by this post; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy. Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, nonprofessional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and theoverall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- Is expected to take delegated responsibility for aspects of service delivery from the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist and deputise in the absence of the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Takes appropriate responsibility for clinical psychology provision to the service in which this post is located and supports the provision of a stand-alone service including demand/waiting list management, reporting and making recommendations regarding service provision. Is expected to manage the care of the most challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting within this part of the service. Is required to provide supervision of clinical psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.
- Provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service across all sectors of care to the population served by this post; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy. Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, nonprofessional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and theoverall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- Is expected to take delegated responsibility for aspects of service delivery from the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist and deputise in the absence of the Consultant Clinical or Neuropsychologist.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
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 British Psychological Society
- HCPC Registration.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in psychological therapy
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate training relevant speciality e.g. neuropsychology, CBT, CAT.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Significant amount of consolidated post qualification experience and application of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients in health care services
- Additional knowledge of national good practice of working as a clinical psychologist
- Completed further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for other psychologists and healthcare professionals
- Substantive experience of clinical supervision (post qualification).
- Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in the treatment of a wide variety of patient groups
- Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the patient group and mental health.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Clinical experience of working with the population served by this post.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Application of psychological knowledge to a population and whenever acting as team lead takes day to day responsibility for psychological input in relation to service in which post is located
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Demonstrable skills in waiting list management
- Skills in audit, clinical governance and resource management.
- 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.
- Computer literate - competent use of email/internet/software
- Ability to meet any travel requirements of the post
Desirable
- Management and recruitment skills
- Leadership skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
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 British Psychological Society
- HCPC Registration.
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in psychological therapy
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate training relevant speciality e.g. neuropsychology, CBT, CAT.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Significant amount of consolidated post qualification experience and application of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of patients in health care services
- Additional knowledge of national good practice of working as a clinical psychologist
- Completed further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for other psychologists and healthcare professionals
- Substantive experience of clinical supervision (post qualification).
- Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in the treatment of a wide variety of patient groups
- Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the patient group and mental health.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Clinical experience of working with the population served by this post.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Application of psychological knowledge to a population and whenever acting as team lead takes day to day responsibility for psychological input in relation to service in which post is located
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Demonstrable skills in waiting list management
- Skills in audit, clinical governance and resource management.
- 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.
- Computer literate - competent use of email/internet/software
- Ability to meet any travel requirements of the post
Desirable
- Management and recruitment skills
- Leadership skills.
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).
