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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Closed for applications on: 9-Jan-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-Jan-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- Trustwide
- Postcode
- NE1 4LP
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 24.75 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- 317 Psychology - Health Psychology
- Interview date
- 30/01/2025
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
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, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
Are you looking to develop your skills in working with people with physical health conditions within a supportive team? Are you interested in the relationship between physical and psychological health?
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in our Multispecialty team and Vascular Surgery service.
Our Multispecialty team provides both inpatient and outpatient assessments and psychological interventions to patients with a wide range of different physical health conditions/difficulties who are under various medical and surgical teams within Newcastle Hospitals. The Multispecialty role involves providing assessment and interventions to inpatients on wards at the RVI and Freeman Hospital using a brief therapy model, and assessment and psychological therapy to outpatients referred to our team. This is a great opportunity to build skills working with a wide range of psychological difficulties and presentations and to experience working in a leading acute hospital trust. You will have opportunities to input into innovative service development, research and audit, and CPD.
- Interview date: Thursday 30 January 2025
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Advert
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Vascular Surgery Service provides care for patients who require specialist care. This post also covers the Vascular Surgery Service, which offers the Clinical/Counselling Psychology provision detailed above, within a specific MDT and ward at the Freeman Hospital.
We encourage applications from Clinical Psychologists / Counselling Psychologists with experience or an interest in working in physical health. You will become a member of our Multispecialty team within a large and supportive psychology service and will have good support from the Psychology in Healthcare service and opportunities to further develop skills and experience. Clinicians in the team use a variety of approaches including CBT, ACT and EMDR amongst others. The service also has close links with the Doctorate Course in Clinical Psychology at Newcastle University.
As a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, you will be offering psychological care to patients with physical health needs. Your role will be to provide a high quality and evidence based psychological service, offering assessment, formulation and psychological interventions to both inpatients and outpatients referred to the Multispecialty team and Vascular Surgery Service. You will play an active role in the Multispecialty Team and Vascular Surgery Service, attending team meetings (when appropriate) and being involved in delivering and shaping our service.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To provide a specialist clinical/counselling psychology service within the service in which this post is located, providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
• Offering advice and consultation on patient’s psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
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 month’s pay.
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.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent conferring eligibility for registration with HCPC as either a Clinical Psychologist or a Counselling Psychologist) 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.
- Doctorate (or equivalent) level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable criteria
- Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or fields of applied psychology.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Post qualification experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Computer literate – competent use of email/internet and patient information systems for electronic clinical records and diary management as appropriate.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities, etc.)
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- In addition to obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to practice as a clinical/counselling psychologist, has additional knowledge of working as a clinical/counselling psychologist in the patient population served by this post.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for Doctoral trainees
- 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.
- Well developed skills in the ability to empathise and 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.
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post – community-based work.
- Well-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Helen Aylott
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2824081
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