About this role
Job summary
To lead and provide a clinical psychology and psychosexual therapy service to clients of the Rosehill Clinic; providing highly specialist psychological and psychosexual assessment and treatment, supervising trainee clinical psychologists, health advisors, and other healthcare professionals as required, offering advice, consultation and supervisionon clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological and psychosexual assessments of referred clients, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate. To formulate and devise psychological and psychosexual treatment and management plans for referred clients and to provide psychological and psychosexual treatment, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service. To provide specialist psychological and psychosexual advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to colleagues and other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
About us
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
Both Epsom and Queen Mary's Hospital in Carshalton are easily accessible from central London but also close to the North Downs and Surrey countryside.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. Including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology Registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist
Desirable
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience Essential
Post qualification experience of working at a highly specialist level within a Sexual Health Environment Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, individually and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. Experience of service development and innovation Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity - including experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable
Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
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 Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address St Helier Hospital
Wrythe Lane
Sutton
SM5 1AA
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk/work-for-us (Opens in a new tab)