Clinical Psychologist
NHS Professionals Limited
The closing date is 01 February 2025
Job summary
Are you a Clinical Psychologist looking for your next challenge? NHS Professionals need you!
You'll find solutions to solve everyday problems for patients such as:
- Providing, highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions to support patients needs.
- Efficiently managing a caseload to formulate and implement strategies to meet your patients goals.
- Working within or alongside a multi-disciplinary team to effectively assess and intervene with your patients psychological needs.
- Mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
Main duties of the job
You'll find solutions to solve everyday problems for patients such as:
- Providing, highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions to support patients needs.
- Efficiently managing a caseload to formulate and implement strategies to meet your patients goals.
- Working within or alongside a multi-disciplinary team to effectively assess and intervene with your patients psychological needs.
- Mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you a Clinical Psychologist looking for your next challenge? NHS Professionals need you!
You'll find solutions to solve everyday problems for patients such as:
- Providing, highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions to support patients needs.
- Efficiently managing a caseload to formulate and implement strategies to meet your patients goals.
- Working within or alongside a multi-disciplinary team to effectively assess and intervene with your patients psychological needs.
- Mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
To be successful in applying for this role you will need:
- BSc Psychology (or equivalent recognised by BPS) and post-graduate doctorate training or statement of equivalence from BPS.
- Doctoral level training in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology.
- Ability to effectively manage a clinical caseload alongside other professional responsibilities.
- Experience of working with MDT teams in a medical setting
- High level of written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication for different audiences and convey complex and sensitive information.
- Interest in or experience of working with people with gastrointestinal conditions.
- Knowledge of risk assessment within medical settings.
It would also be desirable to have:
- Additional training in approaches valuable in health settings e.g. ACT, CFT, EMDR.
- Experience of supervising qualified and trainee psychologists.
- Familiarity with working remotely as well as face to face.
In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
- Relevant Qualifications
- Registration with the relevant Registration Body
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you a Clinical Psychologist looking for your next challenge? NHS Professionals need you!
You'll find solutions to solve everyday problems for patients such as:
- Providing, highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions to support patients needs.
- Efficiently managing a caseload to formulate and implement strategies to meet your patients goals.
- Working within or alongside a multi-disciplinary team to effectively assess and intervene with your patients psychological needs.
- Mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
To be successful in applying for this role you will need:
- BSc Psychology (or equivalent recognised by BPS) and post-graduate doctorate training or statement of equivalence from BPS.
- Doctoral level training in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology.
- Ability to effectively manage a clinical caseload alongside other professional responsibilities.
- Experience of working with MDT teams in a medical setting
- High level of written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication for different audiences and convey complex and sensitive information.
- Interest in or experience of working with people with gastrointestinal conditions.
- Knowledge of risk assessment within medical settings.
It would also be desirable to have:
- Additional training in approaches valuable in health settings e.g. ACT, CFT, EMDR.
- Experience of supervising qualified and trainee psychologists.
- Familiarity with working remotely as well as face to face.
In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
- Relevant Qualifications
- Registration with the relevant Registration Body
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Psychology (or equivalent recognised by BPS) and post-graduate doctorate training or statement of equivalence from BPS.
- Doctoral level training in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology.
- Ability to effectively manage a clinical caseload alongside other professional responsibilities.
- Experience of working with MDT teams in a medical setting
- High level of written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication for different audiences and convey complex and sensitive information.
- Interest in or experience of working with people with gastrointestinal conditions.
- Knowledge of risk assessment within medical settings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Psychology (or equivalent recognised by BPS) and post-graduate doctorate training or statement of equivalence from BPS.
- Doctoral level training in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology.
- Ability to effectively manage a clinical caseload alongside other professional responsibilities.
- Experience of working with MDT teams in a medical setting
- High level of written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication for different audiences and convey complex and sensitive information.
- Interest in or experience of working with people with gastrointestinal conditions.
- Knowledge of risk assessment within medical settings.
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).
Additional information
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).
