Practitioner Psychologist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

We are looking for a psychologist with good team-working skills and a strong interest in physical healthcare, who is keen to learn and develop as part of a supportive and welcoming clinical health psychology are a long-established team covering a wide range of specialisms, with excellent resources for CPD.

A key ambition for the Trust is to work with partners to tackle the health issues facing our local community, and also to address the adverse social, economic and environmental factors which contribute to poor health. Liverpool is a great place to live, with fantastic energy and humour, a vibrant cultural life and easy access to the mountains and the sea. We can also offer beautiful architecture, lots of open space, good schools and a lower than average cost of living.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide a high quality psychology service for patients resident in Liverpool or receiving cancer care within be a resource on psychological care to the wider cancer service and to contribute to providing education, training and supervision activities to enhance psychological support and treatment across the To promote psychology and the cancer psychology service within the local health, social care and research To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust policies and procedures.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Job responsibilities

Clinical

1. To provide psychological assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological (and neuropsychological) tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients To formulate plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across clinical teams, and in synthesis, adjusting and refining of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or To address the needs of informal carers and family members as To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment and discharge of patients ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, and communicating and liaising with referrers and others involved with the care on a regular To provide expertise and psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients To ensure that all members of the clinical teams with which the post-holder works have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of patients, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under the consultants care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the clinical team(s) involved with care of patients seen by the To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of the patient group to relevant staff and agencies outside the Trust.

Research and evaluation

1. Supported by senior colleagues, to contribute to research supervision and support, where appropriate, to psychologists in To undertake appropriate evaluation and research to help develop and improve services for patients and their families, consistent with their own skills and experience and consistent with the research priorities of the service, and in partnership with appropriate individuals within the Service and To take responsibility for using evidence to develop tools for the audit and evaluation of the To take responsibility for using theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in the Service.

Service management and development

1. To work with the Lead Psychologist and colleagues in the team and Clinical Psychologists in contributing to developing clinical psychology services for patients affected by To contribute to representation of psychology on relevant local To contribute a psychological perspective to multidisciplinary and multi-agency planning and development at all levels of service, for people in Liverpool affected by To collaborate with specialist psychological and psychiatric staff within services in contributing to the development of programmes of education, training and supervision which uses the specific skills available locally for the benefit of In the belief that the service will have much to learn from and contribute to the development of services nationally, the post-holder will be encouraged to be part of the national group for psychologists in Oncology and Specialist Palliative Care (SIGOPAC) to develop and maintain network links with colleagues working in similar settings across the UK.

Communications and working relationships

1. The post-holder will communicate with colleagues involved in medical and social care and clinical and service research across multiple sites and The post-holder will liaise with relevant staff in LUHFT and University of Liverpool representatives, and other providers including NHS Trusts, primary care and the voluntary sector, and relevant individuals from Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance and from professional bodies and national To use judgement requiring interpretation, analysis and synthesis of information obtained from multiple To communicate effectively about issues that will be very highly complex and may be sensitive in nature. The communication context may be highly emotive or contentious; excellent skills in communication will be used.

Information technology

1. To use IT as necessary for clinical work, including literature searches, developing and maintaining resources, inputting data, report writing and other tasks as necessary for the efficient running of the To use advanced statistical and other software packages for the analysis and presentation of clinical, audit and research data.

Management arrangements

1. The post-holder will be managerially accountable to the Trust Professional Lead for Annual appraisal will be done by the Trust Professional Lead for Office facilities and administrative support will be provided in LUHFT.

To be noted

1. This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the consultant may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the managers and Trust This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the Psychologist.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Knowledge

Essential

Skills

Essential