Clinical Psychologist or Senior Clinical Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist or Senior Clinical Psychologist

Wehave a one-year temporary post for a full-time B7 or 8a (depending on experience) Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work into the Adult Cardiacand Cancer Psychology Services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Boththe cardiac and cancer psychology teams are well-respected and make aninvaluable contribution to the multi-disciplinary medical services. The postoffers the opportunity for a diverse range of 1:1 therapeutic work with people within these specialities, as well as contributing to the servicesmore broadly with opportunities for consultation with the wider medical and nursing staff.

We recognise that early career clinicians often value gaininga range of clinical experiences and benefit from working within a supportivesetting; you would be 0.5wte within each specialty. The role also involvesopportunities to provide some training as well as contributing to serviceaudits and evaluation. Due to an internal secondment, there is potential forthis to become permanent.

Thispost would suit a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is interested inworking within an acute physical health setting/medical team. You would be providing expert and specialist psychological assessments, formulations and treatments to individual patients within both cancer and cardiac services.

You would work alongside other specialist clinicians within the department to determine what intervention is required, as well as providing level 4psychological interventions yourself. You would be linking up with the wider

MDTs where appropriate for patient care and supporting these teams with thepsychological components of patient treatments. Besides the individual work,there are opportunities to contribute to service developments an devaluations. There are a number of new initiatives in which the services areinvolved and you could take opportunities to contribute to these innovations.

Thispost sits within the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust cardiac and cancerservices, both of which have high profile regional and national reputations.

The Clinical & Health Psychology Department itself is one of the largestwithin the country, having grown and flourished over the years. We are awelcoming and friendly department who enjoy regular away days which provideopportunities to connect more widely, as well as several special interestgroups and a focus on regular supervision. We have over 60 cliniciansorganised into four sectors (Medicine, Surgery & Rehabilitation,Neuropsychology and Staff Support).

Thereare very close links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Programmeat the School of Medicine, Leeds University. There is the opportunity tooffer a training placement to trainee clinical psychologists. The Trust has arange of staff benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (including car leasingand cycle-to-work

JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY

Toprovide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to LTHT staff, across allsites and sectors of care by:

a) Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy,

b) Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologistcolleagues and to other non-professional carers,

c) Using research skills for audit,policy and service development and leading on research projects within thearea served by the team/service

d) Working autonomously in the execution of these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Clinical:

1. To provide specialist 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 care.

2. To formulate, develop and implementplans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy,across the full range of care settings.

3. To be responsible for implementing arange of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families andgroups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis,adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic modelsand highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and…