Clinical Psychologist | NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Psychologist | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

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Contract Type:

Permanent

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Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

22/02/2026

Band 8A Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

• Clinical Health Psychology Specialist Clinical Psychologist Band 8a(Heart Failure, Young Person Diabetes, General health) We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified clinical psychologist with appropriate experience to join the existing clinical health psychology team at Royal Bolton Hospital.

The clinical health psychology service is a small and supportive team working into a number of different specialities within the Trust, with well-established links to North West clinical psychology training courses.

As a Specialist psychologist, you will provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention, advice and consultation to non-psychological colleagues, across heart failure/cardiac care, young person’s diabetes care and general medicine.

You will provide specialised assessments and interventions in these multi-disciplinary settings, including wards and medical out-patient clinics.

You will provide teaching, training and supervision of members of the multidisciplinary team in order to improve psychological input.

In addition to working within the services, you will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients within specialisms.

The post is full time and permanent.

Flexible working is supported wherever possible, including the opportunity for some remote working.

Main duties of the job To work as a member of the clinical health psychology team and the heart failure/cardiac care, young person’s diabetes care and general medicine MDT. To provide assessment and intervention to patients with cardiac conditions, young person diabetes and general health problems.

To provide advice and consultation to MDT colleagues and medical teams.

To promote psychological thinking with non-psychology colleagues.

To participate in teaching, training, audit, and service development.

To provide clinical supervision to psychology and non-psychology colleagues (where appropriate). Would you like to develop your skills and experience in Clinical Health Psychology?

We are looking to welcome a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to our Clinical Health Psychology Service at Royal Bolton Hospital.

We are a friendly and supportive team of psychologists who provide specialist input for people with a range of physical health conditions using approaches including ACT, CBT, CFT & EMDR. You will have the opportunity to work with cardiac, gastroenterology, dermatology, oncology and palliative care referrals as well as provide input to the MDT for heart failure/cardiac, and young persons diabetes.

To provide specialist psychological assessments of Cardiac patients in the agreed locality based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, multidisciplinary case conferences, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient's care.

When appropriate to provide neuropsychological assessments which will require the skilled manipulation of testing materials in order to provide measures of patient's cognitive functioning and inform decisions regarding their future treatment.

To undertake assessments and therapeutic work that is emotionally demanding, including difficulties such as anxiety, depression, trauma, quality of life, disfigurement, disease progression and concerns about end of life.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's mental and physical health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To contribute specialist knowledge of psychological approaches to the management of physical health conditions within the HF team and Diabetes Service.

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