About this role
Job summary
This unique 12-month post offers many opportunities, with some listed below:
Supervision Skills: Gain hands-on experience by starting to develop skills in supervising Assistant Psychologists.
Mentorship: Actively mentor Trainee Clinical Psychologists to build your leadership portfolio.
Creativity & Autonomy: Enjoy the freedom to work on designing non-traditional, community-focused interventions.
Professional Growth: Access dedicated time and support for service development and creative on-job learning.
Main duties of the job
Deliver flexible, trans-diagnostic psychological assessments, formulation and interventions within a GP surgery.
Work to co-create large-scale community psychology projects and support group interventions.
Enable partner services and community groups to develop their own psychological interventions.
Be a compassionate and innovative team member who wants to think outside the box to benefit our population.
About us
Launceston Medical Centre is a large dispensing practice providing care to around 19,000 patients in and around Devon and Cornwall.
We enjoy working from modern, purpose-built premises. The partners and staff have a shared belief in the delivery of high quality, traditional and personal family healthcare. Our patients enjoy good access to care, and we have a strong ethos to recognise their needs when driving forward patient services. It is important to the partners to treat our staff well. We are proud to be a teaching Practice. To promote a multi-disciplinary team approach, we share our premises with other providers including mental health services and social prescribers.
Job description Job responsibilities
We are seeking a creative, adaptable Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to join our primary care team based in a GP practice and Health Hub in Launceston. This unique 12-month post offers the freedom to work trans-diagnostically across the lifespan and/or to focus on a specific interest around children or older people. You will deliver innovative psychological care within general practice and be part of large-scale community psychology initiatives which are later hoped to expand the contract length.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Doctoral-level qualification in Clinical Psychology. Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
About you Essential
Passion for community psychology, group work, and service innovation. Enthusiasm and passion for utilising the broad Clinical Psychology skillset for the benefit of individuals, populations and professional settings. Able to benefit from regular Clinical supervision and joint working as a curious, lifelong learner.
Experience Essential
Experience of using a clinical system
Desirable
Awareness of GP practice Clinical Psychology research or modality; experience may be an advantage, but it is not a requirement.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Launceston Medical Centre
Address Landlake Road
Launceston
Cornwall
PL15 9HH
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://www.launcestonmedicalcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)