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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

You will work with the clinical teams to provide a psychological service for the team, patients, and families. You will offer assessment and therapeutic interventions to patients and supervision, consultation, and training to medical teams. You will work to embed psychological principals within patient care and link to national specialist groups within clinical health psychology.

Experience in working in an acute physical health setting and with evidence-based approaches to managing trauma is beneficial.

These posts may be appropriate for preceptorships and newly qualified psychologists depending on pre-qualification experience.

We would be willing to accept applications who are in the final stages of training and will be applying for HCPC registration after qualification. This would be a preceptorship role.

Within all posts you will connect to the wider UHS Adult Psychology team and other link with Child Psychology, Neuro Psychology, Mental Health Liaison and wider psychological services to develop pathways around patient care.

We have generic job descriptions to assist career development and gaining experience. We encourage applicants to contact us to discuss posts and to carefully consider the person specification in their application.

We would be very happy to answer any of your questions.

If you would like to find out more information this post, please contact Dr Lizzy Pink (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Acute Care Pathway Lead) and Dr Helen Aiston (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cancer and Blood disorders Lead) by email adultpsychadmin@uhs.nhs.uk

Please note, this role is currently being Tupe'd to UHS. Whilst the Job description shows Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare, the role is for University Hospital Southampton

Person specification

Qualifications, Experience And Training

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
• In depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of service development and working with teams

Desirable criteria

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working within a Physical Health Setting and in particular the area that the job is focused on
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with trauma using evidenced based approaches
• Experience of working within the NHS as an Applied Psychologist
• Experience of neuropsychological and psychometric Assessment