Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide professional and clinical leadership to the Long Term Conditions Service in South Cumbria. Applicants need to support key principles of compassionate leadership, psychological safety and demonstrate a commitment to support staff wellbeing and high quality patient care.
The Department offers specialist psychological input across Cumbria to patients with physical health problems. The Health Psychology service aims to promote psychological well being for patients with LTC’s, for example COPD, coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer and palliative care.This post holder will take the lead in the ongoing development of this comprehensive pathway in South Cumbria built on a biopsychosocial model. The pathway will work across secondary and primary care.
Main duties of the job
We are offer a range of care and a wide range of therapeutic modalities including ACT , EMDR and CFT. This service focuses on the nurturing and growth of both staff and service users.
There will be an emphasis upon interpersonal skills to form a compassion focused approach to leadership and team working. This will be an essential part of working collaboratively with operational management and other senior clinical colleagues to develop the offer of psychological services within teams and to lead on providing outcomes on psychology service delivery.
This strong focus upon interpersonal skills will also form a fundamental part of providing the supervision and professional leadership to psychology and wider MDT staff.
Please see the attached job description and person spec for full details of required roles and responsibilities.
Lower grades may be considered with suitable experience. Job descriptions for band 8c & band b are attached.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL).Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
- If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Important Information
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Disclosure and Barring Service:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.
The changes mean that:
- youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.
If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.
Nacro – Tel: 0300 123 1999, or email: [email protected]
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The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:
Please note the cost of the DBS check has increased from 2^nd December 2024
Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £5.90 = £27.40. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £5.90 = £55.40. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.
As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.
A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.- day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
Excellent opportunities for development
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies
EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
These schemes are subject to availability
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), or equivalent applied Psychology training, 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.
- Practitioner Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology
- Practitioner qualification as a supervisor in Neuropsychology
- Accredited training in the Mental Capacity Act as an assessor
- Advanced Training in CBT, which meets eligibility criteria for accreditation
- HCPC registered
- Advanced training in an additional psychological model, eg Systemic
- Training as a CBT training facilitator
Experience
Essential criteria- Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings, including residential care.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- Experience of highly expert teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of Patients with a wide range of Neurological conditions including, CVA, degenerative conditions, Oncology, Trauma, infection
- Experience of working with patients exhibiting challenging behaviours
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria- Knowledge of service development and key national guidance in this clinical area.
- Ability to integrate highly complex clinical information into a coherent formulation, and to apply this in treatment, management and rehabilitation
- The ability to plan and organise in a manner consistent with a Service remit and the requirement of highly autonomous working
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- 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.
- Demonstrable ability to exercise full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists, Practitioner Qualification in Neuropsychology supervision.
- Experience of offering CBT supervision.
- Willingness to work flexibly
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations
Other Requirements
Essential criteria- Experience of contributing to formal audit process.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office functions and a willingness to further develop these as required
- A sense of humour
- Willingness to work flexibly
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations