South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
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The Department of Clinical Health Psychology
The Department of Clinical Health Psychology are delighted to be recruiting a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead and develop the cancer and palliative care psychology services.
The post will form part of the senior leadership of our thriving Clinical Health Psychology team, based at Stratford Healthcare. You will be part of a large and supportive team of Clinical Psychologists, psychological practitioners, trainees, trainee CAPs, and assistant psychologists working in physical health. Supervision and support will be provided by an experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the team.
The role will involve both face to face and remote working, along with consultation, training and supervision of psychology and MDT staff. You will also be expected to represent the department at local, regional and national level.
Our department has strong links with the local Clinical Psychology training courses, and regularly offers specialist third year placements. We encourage research and improvement and there would be scope to utilise these skills in this post.
Applications from those interested in job sharing would be welcome as would applications from experienced 8b psychologists ready to move up to consultant level. We value diversity in our team and would warmly welcome applications from people with protected characteristics and we would seek to support those with additional needs where appropriate.
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Informal discussions about the role would be welcomed.
Key Responsibilities
- To take the lead in the Strategic development and systematic provision of high quality, specialised clinical psychology programmes of care and advice to patients and staff working throughout South Warwickshire, covering cancer and palliative care as well as a range of physical health specialties.
- To propose service changes and policy for all clinicians providing psychological care (MDT etc.) in the general patient group.
- To provide highly specialist clinical health psychology assessment and therapy across the health economy for patient groups as negotiated with the Director.
- To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on patient care to colleagues and carers.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise individual responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the patient groups described.
- To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within various patient specialties as negotiated with the Director
- To support workforce development by training and supervision.
- To be responsible for the allocation of resources, line and operational management of the clinicians working with the general patient care delivery.
- To provide highly specialist teaching for the Birmingham, Warwick & Coventry, & Oxford University Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training courses and other training providers.
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About Us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr James Parker
- Job title: Head of Psychology
- Email address: james.parker@swft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01926495321
01926 495321 ext 4417
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