About this role
Job summary
Band 8a Senior Clinical Psychologist - Fixed Term 12 months Ending 01 November 2027
We are seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist with an interest in working with people with complex mental health difficulties associated with long-term physical health conditions, Bariatrics or persistent pain to join our Clinical Health Psychology team.
The post-holder will undertake individual and group work, consultation & supervision. The post offers opportunity to develop further educational and leadership skills such as joint referrals management and service development tasks alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
The team currently work closely with the Tier 4 Bariatric service based at UHNM & offer psychological assessments as part of their pathway.
You will be joining a growing and thriving clinical health psychology department, with strong links with the University Hospital of North Midlands and MPFT. There will be opportunity to get involved in projects related to service development and consultation across the various service areas for interested candidates.
We will consider applications from people whose main area of work since qualification has been in an adult mental health setting if they can demonstrate a good understanding and interest in the impact of physical health conditions.
The team will support applicants for Band 7 clinical psychologists. Suitable support & training will be offered for the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a highly specialist service to outpatients as an integral member of the Clinical Health Psychology team consisting of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Psychologists and Psychological Therapists. To provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to individuals and groups in order to facilitate emotional adjustment and promote improved quality of life.
The post involves working with people experiencing psychological distress and complex mental health difficulties associated with living with persistent pain, long-term health conditions and individuals undergoing assessment and preparation for bariatric surgery.
Consultation, referral screening, pathway / service development, clinical supervision, training and risk management will form part of the duties.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Job description Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessment of adults with mental and physical health difficulties utilising information from a broad range of structured psychometric and semi-structured clinical methods. To integrate this information into a psychological formulation of the client and his/her psychosocial environment, drawing on a range of psychological theoretical perspectives.
2. To provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to individuals and groups in a community clinical health psychology team setting in order to facilitate emotional adjustment and promote improved quality of life.
3. To undertake a range of psychological therapeutic interventions, drawing on a number of psychological models and employing a range of modalities. To make decisions about treatment options taking into account highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
4. To keep up to date with best practices and advances in practice.
5. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the care of the liaison service integrating the contribution of other professionals on the basis of client need.
6. To take substantial professional responsibility and exercise autonomous judgement with regard to his/her professional practice.
7. To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective in the multi-disciplinary assessment of service users and their families or carers.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Qualifications Essential
HCPC registration as a clinical psychologist
Experience Essential
Experience of working effectively as a qualified clinical psychologist with adults with complex mental health needs.
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 North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Address Bennett Centre
Stoke-on-Trent
ST1 4ND
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)