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Ref: 309-UCLH-5617 Vacancy ID: 6876388

Practitioner Psychologist – Staff Psychology

Closed for applications on: 19-Dec-2024 08:00

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Closed for applications on: 19-Dec-2024 08:00

Location

UCLH, John Astor House
3 Foley Street
London
W1W 6DN
London

Contract type & working pattern

Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment cover)
Part time - 15 hours per week

Salary

£61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Yearly

(NHS AfC: Band 8a)

Specialty

Occupational Health

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Job overview

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and compassionate Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the UCLH Staff Psychology & Welfare Service (SPWS).  SPWS is well-established within the Trust and the post-holder will join a friendly multi-disciplinary team of clinical and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors and mediators. This is an exciting and critically important time to work in this area, helping to support our diverse hospital workforce to cope with the impact of, and recover from the pandemic as well as the ongoing nature of healthcare work in acute hospital settings. 

While this provision has been in place for over 40 years at UCLH, the demand for the service has risen considerably in recent years. The covid-19 pandemic has further increased the need for individual and team level staff support. The Staff Psychology Service continues to address these needs, offering prompt access to highly specialist assessment and a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for staff. It is also part of the wider recovery programme and long term health and wellbeing agenda at UCLH. We work closely with our workforce colleagues in Staff Experience, Training & Development and alongside our Staff Networks to encourage long term and sustainable cultural change within the organisation. We aim to reduce stigma, increase engagement in self care and organisational support to help our staff thrive at work and in their personal lives. 

This vacancy will close at 08:00 on 19th December 2024. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

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Our team is expanding in response to the psychosocial needs of staff emerging during the coronavirus pandemic and will aim to support the recovery of the organisation and staff following the pandemic based on our  trauma informed stepped-care approach. The post-holder will become a key member of these broader innovative projects including opportunities to work with teams and to help
develop organisation-wide interventions, run groups, workshops and training programmes alongside an individual caseload. 

This is a specialist role within the service that requires the post-holder to be confident to work independently within their own team as well as closely with multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust. The post holder will also be required to provide training and supervision for clinical staff. While there is some flexibility in the role to work remotely, the main responsibilities are covering onsite support provision within the clinical areas of the different hospitals and acting as part of our ward based surge response to support staff.

Supervision will be provided by an experienced Clinical Psychologist with line management by the Clinical Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist.  
Candidates must have completed post-graduate level training in Clinical  or Counselling Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence, and be registered as practitioner psychologists with the HCPC. 

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. 

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites: 

  • University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) 

  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 

  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals 

  • University College Hospital Grafton Way Building 

  • Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine 

  • University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre 

  • The Hospital for Tropical Diseases 

  • University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street 

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology. 

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description. 

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff* 

UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.  

UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  

Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work. 

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH? 

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Honours degree in psychology or related disciplines, and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology (or its equivalent occupational health qualification and experience) leading to eligibility for Chartership by the BPS and Registered Practitioner Psychologist by the HCPC.
  • High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies and group work.
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
  • Knowledge of psychology as applied to mental health.
  • Ability to make diagnostic decisions, give second opinions and make differential diagnoses as part of multidisciplinary assessments.
  • Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice–based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor.
Desirable criteria
  • Qualification in EMDR.
  • Knowledge of Organisational / Occupational Psychology

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial post-qualification experience (at least four full-time equivalent years) of working as a practitioner psychologist, some of which time has been with clients having psychological problems related to traumatic stress, chronic fatigue and chronic mental health problems.
  • Evidence of developing or enhancing a psychology service via audit and/or research activity.
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
  • Experience of teaching, training and supervision as well as group facilitation.
  • Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in staff support role and have an understanding of specific issues that might arise in acute hospital settings.

Academic and research

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience of research indicating the ability to conduct research autonomously, with supervision as required.
  • Interest in conducting scientific research in topics relevant to the post.
  • Ability to critique and evaluate scientific data and best practice clinical guidelines.

Quality and service improvement

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of capacity to make quality contributions to multidisciplinary teamwork.
  • Evidence of effective clinical reasoning in the assessment and management of complex psychological difficulties.

Information processing (IT skills)

Essential criteria
  • Competent IT skills (word processing, spreadsheets, statistical packages)

Communication & Customer Care

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates professional and effective verbal and written communication skills including excellent negotiation skills with patients, carers and other health professional staff in service delivery.
  • 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 where information may be highly sensitive and there may be barriers to acceptance.
  • Skills in supervising other staff

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • A high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Must be able to cope with highly emotive and psychologically challenging demands of working with staff in multiple acute areas and with organisational issues.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people in a sensitive, caring and non-judgemental manner.

Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

Essential criteria
  • Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Lisa Monaghan
Job title
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
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