Job summary
We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist to provide a high quality and highly specialised psychology service for Trust staff. Thesuccessful candidate will provide appropriate support for Trust staff that is complementary to the resources offered regionally and nationally.
You will be a highly specialist resource on psychological care to the wider service and will coordinate and contribute to providing education,training and supervision activities to enhance psychological support and treatment across the service.
This post is for 36 weeks maternity cover, full time
Main duties of the job
To provide individual and group psychological therapy for staff at LUHFT
To contribute to the wider work of the service, such as production of resources and guidelines.
About us
NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.
We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West.
We operate from five hospital sites:Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospitalprovide specialist services incardiothoracic surgery,cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Delivery of high quality brief therapy.
Contribution to group work and resource development.
Accurate record keeping.
Engagement in supervision,
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Satisfactory completion of postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Eligible for membership of the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology and for BPS chartered status
- Eligible for registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Pre- or post-qualification experience or training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Specialist training or demonstrable expertise in one or more areas of research methodology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of applying psychological approaches to NHS staff.
- Experience of supporting NHS staff.
- Working with a wide variety of client groups, across the adult life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
Desirable
- Experience of working in a staff support setting.
- Experience of teaching or training.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of research in NHS settings
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of clinical health psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training including supervised experience.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies
- Ability to plan, organise and provide teaching and training on relevant psychological topics, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and DoH policy and implementation guidelines, and of the implications of such documentation for clinical practice and professional management in relation to health care
- Evidence of continuing professional development consistent with expected standards of the British Psychological Society and Divisions of Clinical Psychology or other relevant professional body
- Familiarity with the ethical and professional standards expected of Clinical Psychologists as laid down in the collated BPS 'Code of Conduct, Ethical Principles and Guidelines' or other relevant professional guidelines
- Awareness and thorough understanding of the political, social and economic policy framework within which health and mental health services are delivered and an ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the professions of clinical, health and counselling psychology within this context
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Aintree University Hospital
Lower Lane
Fazakerley
L9 7AL
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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