Clinical Psychologist - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Nottingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description
Band 8a


Main area

  • Clinical Psychology
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Grade

  • Band 8a
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Contract

  • Permanent
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Hours

  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
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Job ref
B
Site

  • Queen's Medical Centre
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Town

  • Nottingham
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Salary
- £48,526 - £54,619 £47,126 - £53,219 Pro Rata
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Salary period

  • Yearly
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Closing

  • 06/03/2023 08:00Job overview
Main duties of the job


In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.


The work involves both inpatient and outpatient working, supporting patients and their families during hospital admission as well as throughout their journey following discharge from hospital.

The post holder will work with a variety of clinical presentations including acute emotional reactions, adjustment difficulties, parental distress, anxiety associated with hospitalisation and surgery, post-traumatic stress disorder, appearance-related concerns / distress related to scars, low mood, difficulties managing pain and difficulties engaging in physical rehabilitation.


This is an exciting opportunity to work in an established regional burns clinical psychology service and be part of a recent development in paediatric plastic surgery.

It would be desirable but not essential to have experience working in an adult and/or paediatric clinical health psychology setting, working psychologically with adults and/or children with physical health problems or delivering evidence-based trauma-focused interventions

Working for our organisation


You will be part of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology which incorporates specialisms in Paediatric Psychology, Adult Medical Psychology and Child and Adult Neuropsychology.


You will work across both hospital campuses: City Hospital (adult burns) and the Queens Medical Centre (paediatric burns and plastic surgery).


There will be opportunities for continued professional development and clinical supervision is well provided for by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist who leads the burns clinical psychology service.


We have a number of trainees from the DClinPsy courses at Universities of Leicester, Sheffield, Nottingham and Lincoln, and there would be opportunities to supervise trainees or assistant psychologists.

You will also be involved in providing consultation, teaching/training and support to others within and outside of the team. The department has a commitment to clinical research. Strong support is available to conduct research and to develop your clinical research interests.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information and informal discussion please contact:
Application forms and a job description are available from the Department of HRM, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham NG7 2UH, tel: hour answer phone).

Person specification

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards
Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Postgraduate doctoral level (or equivalent) training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS.
  • Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
Desirable criteria

  • Postdoctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
  • Previous training in medical psychology
Experience

Essential criteria

  • Working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist
  • Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
Desirable criteria

  • Experience of working in an acute hospital
  • Working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist
in an area of adult and/or paediatric clinical health psychology

  • Experience of assessing and working psychologically with adults and/or children with physical health problems
  • Experience of assessing trauma reactions and delivering evidencebased traumafocused interventions
  • Experience of representing clinical psychology within multidisciplinary teams
Communication & Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

  • Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
  • Ability to develop and use complex multimedia materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
  • Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations
Desirable criteria

  • Experience of working within a multicultural framework
  • Skills in providing cons
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