About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an 8a clinical/counselling psychologist to join the existing clinical health psychology team at Bolton Foundation Trust. The Clinical health psychology service has a supportive team working into a number of different specialities within the trust, with well established links to the North West Clinical Psychology training courses.
As a specialist psychologist, you will work in an already established Heart failure team and Young Persons Diabetes Team. You will be responsible for clinical psychology provision within the Heart Failure service and Young persons Diabetes service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder provides specialist psychological assessment and intervention, advice and consultation to non-psychological colleagues, across heart failure/ cardiac care and young persons diabetes care . You will provide specialised assessments and interventions in these multi-disciplinary settings including wards and medical out-patient clinics. You will provide training and supervision to members of the multidisciplinary team in order to improve psychological input. In addition to working within these services, you will provide specialised assessment and intervention to general health patients from other specialisms for e.g. palliative, cancer, gastroenterology.
About us
This post is full time and permanent.
Flexible working is supported wherever possible, including the opportunity for some remote working.
Would you like to develop your skills and experience in Clinical Health Psychology? We are looking to welcome a clinical/counselling psychologist or soon to be qualified psychologist to our clinical health psychology service at Bolton Foundation Trust. We are a friendly and supportive team of psychologist who provide specialist input for people wit a range of physical health conditions using approaches including ACT, CBT, CFT and EMDR.
Applications from newly qualified or final year trainees who wish to pursue a Band 7 - 8a preceptorship are welcomed.
Job description Job responsibilities Please see the attached job description and person specification, which provide full details about the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS Completion of specialist post-qualification courses in psychological theories and clinical approaches to physical health. HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
Completion of Clinical Supervision training as provided by doctoral training courses to enable post holder to be able to supervise and assess clinical doctorate trainees
Experience Essential
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a full range of care setting, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams and taking lead in patient care Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the life span, with a wide variety of presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. To include specialist experience in the psychological assessment, management and treatment of physical health conditions Experience in the application of clinical psychology approaches in different clinical and medical settings (inpatient & outpatient) Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Desirable
Experience working with Cardiac conditions e.g. HF, myocardial infarction Experience of working with diabetes Experience of working with lifelimiting conditions, end of life & palliative care needs Experience of seeing patients on acute medical inpatient wards Experience of working with adolescents (16yrs-24yrs) Experience of group work specific to health conditions
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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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 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Address Clinical Health Psychology, Great Lever Health Centre
Rupert Street
Bolton
BL3 6RN
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://www.boltonft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)