Senior Practitioner Psychologist at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, supporting patients and families across Woodlands Hospice and the specialist palliative care ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Core work is specialist psychological assessment and therapy for people nearing the end of life, with consultation to colleagues and to managers developing palliative care services. The post also develops the psychology service at Woodlands Hospice and supervises junior staff, with travel between sites. Doctoral training and HCPC registration are required.
What the job involves
- Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy for patients approaching the end of life and their families
- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to professionals contributing to patients' treatment
- Provide expertise and consultation to managers developing palliative care services
- Take specific responsibility for developing the psychology service at Woodlands Hospice, including liaison with stakeholders
- Directly supervise the clinical work of junior qualified and pre-qualification staff
What’s required
Qualifications
- Doctoral training in clinical, counselling or health psychology accredited by the BPS (or equivalent for those trained before 1996)
- Eligibility for the BPS Register of Chartered Psychologists
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
- Post-qualification experience as a practitioner psychologist
- Experience as a qualified psychologist in a physical health setting
- Working with a wide range of adult client groups at the full range of clinical severity, in outpatient and inpatient settings
- Exercising full clinical responsibility, including as care co-ordinator within multidisciplinary care plans
- Teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Maintaining professionalism when dealing with highly emotive and distressing problems
Skills & knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of clinical health psychology and highly specialised psychological therapies
- Doctoral-level research methodology, research design and complex data analysis
- Complex assessment methods, including psychometric and specialist neuropsychological testing
- Highly developed written and verbal communication with patients, families and colleagues in sensitive or contentious situations
- Knowledge of relevant legislation, DoH policy and the BPS Code of Ethics and Conduct
- Demonstrable leadership and high-level negotiation skills
Other
- Willingness to travel between sites as required
Nice to have
- Experience in cancer services
- Specialist knowledge of psycho-oncology
- Post-qualification experience of research in a physical health setting
- Publication in peer-reviewed clinical or service-related journals
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas
- Experience in service development and/or innovation
- Evidence of management skills
- Membership of national professional or interprofessional groups
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