Highly Specialist Clinical Health Psychologist (Physical Health) in Plymouth

We are looking to recruit a psychologist to help develop and provide a highly specialist and high-quality Clinical Psychology service for adults and paediatric burns patients of the Burns Facility in University Hospital Plymouth. Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a highly specialist and high-quality Clinical Psychology service for adults and paediatric burns patients of the Burns Facility in University Hospital Plymouth.
• To be responsible for the assessment and provision of psychological therapy, advice or consultation to patients and professionals within the Trust.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to function as a highly specialist resource to the Trust.
• To provide teaching and training where required, supervision to other professionals and to support the development of increased psychological provision within the hospital.
• To provide a highly specialist psychological service to patients who have suffered burns injuries including those repatriated from regional Burns Units.
• To provide consultation and supervision to a wide range of staff, as required, including supervision of therapeutic work to Counsellors and Psychologists in training.
• You will work autonomously and support the development of initiatives that support increased psychological provision.

Working for our organisation

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.

Please note that all communication will be electronic, please check your email account regularly. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post-holder carries responsibility for own work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies acting as an autonomous independent practitioner in relation to:
• To provide a highly specialised Psychology service to burns patients within the Trust.
• To devise and provide individualised assessment and treatment of inpatients and outpatients with multi-faceted problems.
• To provide specialist advice and consultation on psychological problems, needs and care of burns patients.
• To provide specialist support and supervision to staff involved in the care of burns patients.
• To meet the health needs, participate in, advise, and make proposals regarding service development within Clinical Health Psychology especially about Hospital patients.
• To apply Research and Development skills to perform audit within the service; audit own clinical practice; and the supervision of undergraduate students, graduate assistants, and doctoral trainees.
• To supervise clinical work of newly qualified staff, trainees, and graduate psychology assistants directly to administer psychological therapy and ensuring systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision of these staff.

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical/counselling psychologist.
• Demonstrable experience of working with chronic and life-threatening illness, death and dying.
• Demonstrable experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment.
• Demonstrable experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a hospital environment.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or an equivalent counselling psychology qualification as accredited by the BPS; including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, life span developmental psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level.
• Post-doctorate Clinical Health Psychology specialism training.
• Good analytical and judgemental skills.
• Proven knowledge and demonstrable experience of giving and receiving clinical supervision.
• Demonstrable skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Proven advanced knowledge and competency in comparing frameworks and approaches used in clinical, counselling, health, and applied psychology.
• Proven knowledge and understanding of relevant government policies, guidelines, literature and guidance, and its implications for clinical practice about patients.

Please note that if you are successful in your application & accept the position you agree that the Staff Health and Wellbeing Department can access your health records from your current/previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations & screening tests. This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.

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.