Clinical Psychologist (Health) working in burns and major trauma

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join the Major Trauma & Burns Teams at University Hospitals Plymouth, as the adult Major Trauma Centre (MTC) for Peninsula Trauma Network & a Burns Facility for the South West Burns Network.

These services are responsible for coordinating the care, rehabilitation, repatriation & transfer in of major trauma & burns patients while ensuring seamless case management for MTC & Burns patients within the Trust.

The post-holder will provide a highly specialist & high quality Clinical Health Psychology service for adults who have undergone major trauma or those who have suffered burns injuries, within the Clinical Health Psychology department. Clinical duties will include the assessment & provision of psychological therapy, advice or consultation to patients & professionals within the Trust.

The post holder will need to be enthusiastic, dynamic, excellent communicator & be required to work with multi-disciplinary teams across the organisation.

If you are a motivated individual with excellent interpersonal skills looking for a career augmenting opportunity this could be the post for you.

This will be further discussed as part of the interview process and with the preferred candidate as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

***Please note that applications from temporary workers who have been engaged with the Trust for a minimum of 3 months are welcome.***

To provide a highly specialist psychological service to patients who have suffered burns injuries including those repatriated from regional Burns Units.

To provide a highly specialist psychological service to patients who have been identified as major trauma across the hospital.

In addition, to provide consultation and supervision to a wide range of staff in both departments, as required, including supervision of therapeutic work to Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists where appropriate.

You will be able to work autonomously and support the development of initiatives that support increased psychological provision within this service.

There will be opportunities for involvement in supervision and teaching.

You will work in tandem with and receive supervision from the lead Clinical Psychologist for the Burns Psychology Service. You will also receive supervision and support from the Lead Clinical Psychologist responsible for Major Trauma. You will have the opportunity to work hybrid hours – optimising working remotely/at home as well as within the hospital environment.

Working for our organisation

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder carries responsibility for own work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies acting as an autonomous independent practitioner in relation to:

1. To provide a highly specialised Psychology service to burns and major trauma patients within the Trust.
2. To devise and provide individualised assessment and treatment of inpatients and outpatients with multi-faceted problems.
3. To provide specialist advice and consultation on psychological problems, needs and care of burns and major trauma patients.
4. To provide specialist support and supervision to staff involved in the care of burns patients and those involved in the care of major trauma patients, where appropriate to do so.
5. To work alongside the Lead Clinical Psychologists for the services to meet the health needs, participate in, advise, and make proposals regarding service development within the burns facility and major trauma department in relation to emotional and psychological wellbeing of patients and staff.
6. To apply Research and Development skills to perform audits within the service; audit own clinical practice; and the supervision of undergraduate students, psychology assistants and doctoral trainees where appropriate.

For further details please see the attached JD & PS

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

• • Demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with a range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatients, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
• • Demonstrable experience of, or genuine interest in working with burns or trauma care patients or patients within the more medicalised/health field.
• • An understanding of working as a clinical/counselling psychologist in a physical health setting

• • Demonstrable experience of working with chronic and life-threatening illness, death and dying.
• • Demonstrable experience of providing supervision to staff (e.g. allied health professionals, specialist nurses etc).

Qualifications

• • Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or an equivalent counselling psychology qualification as accredited by the BPS; including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, life span developmental psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• • HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist

• • Advanced keyboard skills (physical skills).
• • Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level.

Disposition & Attitude

• • Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of services across physical health presentations.
• • Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.

• • A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional service delivery and audit. A wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.

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Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/Details

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