About this role
Job summary
The postholder will join the Renal Health and Counselling Psychology team and the Liver Transplant Psychology team, both comprising psychologists and young adult support workers, and will work closely with specialist kidney and liver multidisciplinary colleagues from nursing, medical, surgical, dietetic, pharmacy, and physiotherapy.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will join the Renal Health and Counselling Psychology team and the Liver Transplant Psychology team, both comprising psychologists and young adult support workers, and will work closely with specialist kidney and liver multidisciplinary colleagues from nursing, medical, surgical, dietetic, pharmacy, and physiotherapy.
Please refer to JD and PS
About us
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicatedarmy of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle.From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
Therapy Services has a high profile within the Trust, being firmly committed to quality improvement, audit, service evaluation and improvement. We undertake yearly presentations of our achievements for the year; undertaking PDSA and QI projects to ensure we are delivering the most effective, safe and high quality service.
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Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health psychology and / or level 2 post-graduate qualification in CBT Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (Practitioner Psychologist) BABCP accreditation (full or provisional)
Experience Essential
Experience of working as a qualified / trainee clinical / counselling psychologist / practitioner health psychologist and/or CBT therapist Experience of specialist biopsychosocial assessment and delivery of psychological and / or motivational interventions with patients in primary care, community, or acute hospital settings Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, presenting with a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings including outpatient and/or community and/or primary care, and/or in-patient settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems Experience of undertaking risk assessments Experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments Experience of running patient support groups
Desirable
Clinical experience in assessment and working psychologically with patients living with obesity in a community and/or acute hospital setting Experience of running patient therapy/education/information groups
Skills & Aptitudes Essential
Knowledge of and ability to implement behaviour change techniques and interventions as applied to healthy eating and physical exercise Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations Ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to patients and professional persons within and outside the NHS Ability to act as a practitioner psychologist / CBT therapist and work autonomously in hospital settings High level knowledge of psychology research design and methodology within physical health settings Evidence of ongoing professional development in line with HCPC/BPS/BABCP requirements
Royal Free shared commitments Essential
o Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.
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.
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Employer details Employer name Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Royal Free Hospital
Pond Street
London
NW3 2QG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)