Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.

We acknowledge that applicants may use AI tools to assist them in preparing their application and we therefore encourage applicants to ensure that they read the application requirements carefully and are providing personalised examples and evidence of how they meet all the essential and any of the desirable criteria. AI generated applications are often very similar and do not tend to differentiate good candidates and what they will uniquely bring to the role. The application is an opportunity to demonstrate the ability to fulfil an important aspect of the role, which is to communicate information clearly and concisely.

Please answer the following three questions and use them to demonstrate your interest, personal experience and reflexivity.

• What aspects of the psychological impact of burn injuries do you find most interesting or challenging, and why?
• Describe a situation where you supported someone experiencing distress, adjustment difficulties, trauma, or changes in self-confidence or identity. What did you learn from the experience?
• Describe a piece of work, project, or improvement that you are particularly proud of that aligns with the requirements of this post. What was your personal contribution, what obstacles did you encounter, what was the measurable outcome, and which of your values informed your approach?

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A First-class or Upper-second-class Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society and confers the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society.

Desirable criteria

• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or post graduate research design and analysis.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Sufficient post-graduate experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs in clinical health psychology to be able to work clinically with close direct supervision.
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.

Desirable criteria

• The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do.
• Experience of working with interpreters.
• Proficiency in other languages

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Graduate level knowledge of psychological research methodology and statistical analysis.
• Good theoretical knowledge of the problems experienced by and needs of the acute hospital population and of methods of assessment and treatment.
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of appearance difference and management of appearance distress.
• Knowledge of development of trauma symptoms, psychoeducation about trauma and grounding techniques.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Skills in relevant psychological assessment and interventions that enable working as a pre-qualified practitioner with close clinical supervision.
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, information to clients, families and colleagues.
• Skills in providing supporting teaching and training provided by psychologists or others to other professional groups.
• Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to represent psychology in multidisciplinary meetings

Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to work effectively within a multi disciplinary team, participating in effective team functioning and holding team roles.
• Ability to identify and follow relevant clinical governance procedures.
• Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions.
• Ability to tolerate working in an often busy and noisy ward environment and to share a workspace with colleagues.
• Ability to tolerate medical discussions and images of a graphic nature including burns, surgery and other skin conditions.
• Ability to manage occasional emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
• Ability to communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information to people who may have impediments to understanding.
• Ability to manage verbal abuse and hostility directed at self.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to prioritise tasks to work efficiently to meet service needs and priorities as they shift according to the dynamic nature of the client group.