Job summary
Would you like to work in a friendly multidisciplinary service focused on supporting NHS staff with their wellbeing at work? Are you passionate about making a positive impact on staff mental health and their experience at work?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and skilled HCPC registered clinical psychologist to join our multi-disciplinary team within the SEQOHS accredited Workplace Health & Well-Being Centre here at Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. Our friendly team includes a consultant, occupational health nurses and occupational therapist. We work alongside each other to provide a range of services to support our hard-working staff to be well at work.
The Occupational Health Staff Psychology service was set up in 2021 to provide a responsive in-house service for BTHFT staff to receive specialist psychological input as part of their commitment to the NHS People Promise. This post will be attractive to candidates looking to gain experience and work in an occupational health setting focused on employee mental health and wellbeing at work
Informal Enquiries / Requests for Informal Visits to
Amanda Grice Manager Workplace Health & Wellbeing
Tel 01274 364171
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide MDT consultation to other OH clinical staff, provide specialist psychological assessment, evidence-based therapy, and teaching sessions to staff in Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. You must be comfortable working with time limited therapy models and follow NICE guidelines for intervention. Experience working with anxiety, depression, and trauma as well as effective management of risk and safeguarding issues is also important. You must also have excellent interpersonal skills, be able to work independently and as part of a team and demonstrate good clinical judgement.
About us
BTHFT is a large acute hospital trust with an exceptionally skilled, passionate, and diverse workforce. We can offer a staff gymnasium, an excellent pension scheme including life assurance cover, and advice on childcare.
In the Occupational Health department, we can offer a private and dedicated office on your working days. You will be able to set your own clinic times during our business hours and will see clients in your own office. We are supportive of remote working for a proportion of your working days. Flexible working hours will also be considered to accommodate various life commitments, depending on service needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details and for more information please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details and for more information please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in a related clinical area eg. clinical health psychology, staff support, adult mental health, for a minimum of two years.
- Experience of working with a wide range of people, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and residential care settings.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with people with medical teams or in an acute hospital setting
- Experience of working with trauma
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, highly technical, contentious or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- High level of analytical and judgement skills with ability to understand complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison.
- High level ability to form and maintain collaborative professional relationships with colleagues across all levels and in working in the MDT.
- Skills in planning and organising activities (e.g. groups); skills in planning, organising and managing own workload.
- Ability to work in a complex and changing environment; demonstrable ability to work under pressure and according to changing priorities and service needs.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Desirable
- To be fluent in languages relevant to the local population (English, Urdu and Punjabi).
- Skilled in working with clients in groups and managing group dynamics in the face of highly emotive and distressing issues.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the relevant population.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable
- Comprehensive understanding of current NHS issues and context, organisational structures, policy, strategic planning and clinical governance.
- Knowledge of the culture and demographics of the local community.
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Eligible for Chartered Status of the British Psychological Society and registration with the HPC.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Evidence of post-graduate training in a relevant therapy for working in trauma
Other Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrable interest in working with staff
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- The role involves frequent intense concentration, frequent distressing or emotional circumstances, challenging behaviour and occasional exposure to unpleasant conditions.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Ability to undertake research, audit and evaluation activity as necessary to own work and that of the service.
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in a related clinical area eg. clinical health psychology, staff support, adult mental health, for a minimum of two years.
- Experience of working with a wide range of people, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and residential care settings.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with people with medical teams or in an acute hospital setting
- Experience of working with trauma
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, highly technical, contentious or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- High level of analytical and judgement skills with ability to understand complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison.
- High level ability to form and maintain collaborative professional relationships with colleagues across all levels and in working in the MDT.
- Skills in planning and organising activities (e.g. groups); skills in planning, organising and managing own workload.
- Ability to work in a complex and changing environment; demonstrable ability to work under pressure and according to changing priorities and service needs.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Desirable
- To be fluent in languages relevant to the local population (English, Urdu and Punjabi).
- Skilled in working with clients in groups and managing group dynamics in the face of highly emotive and distressing issues.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the relevant population.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable
- Comprehensive understanding of current NHS issues and context, organisational structures, policy, strategic planning and clinical governance.
- Knowledge of the culture and demographics of the local community.
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Eligible for Chartered Status of the British Psychological Society and registration with the HPC.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Evidence of post-graduate training in a relevant therapy for working in trauma
Other Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrable interest in working with staff
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- The role involves frequent intense concentration, frequent distressing or emotional circumstances, challenging behaviour and occasional exposure to unpleasant conditions.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Ability to undertake research, audit and evaluation activity as necessary to own work and that of the service.
Desirable
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).
