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Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychologist at NHS
London, United Kingdom
Job Descrption
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled psychologist to work in the Red Cell Pain Management and Psychology Service (RCPMPS) at St George's Hospital. The postholder will work within the RCPMPS, which offers inpatient and outpatient psychological support to those with mood difficulties associated with haemoglobinopathies, issues with adjustment, and treatment adherence. Since 2013, it also has provided an innovative pain management service for adults living with sickle cell disease (SCD) building up a significant reputation for excellence in the field. The postholder will work largely in the psychology arm of the RCPMPS and alongside the rest of the team in a newly developed community multidisciplinary team (MDT) and service to support patients of adult age, families and carers affected by SCD across South London, covering the five boroughs of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton... Kingston and Richmond. This new service forms part of a two-year pilot and the role will involve travel across the South London footprint. The postholder will support the development and delivery of workshops, outreach and patient participation projects, alongside MDT reflective practice and education sessions. The postholder will also be professionally linked to the wider St George's Hospital Adult Haematology team, and would work collaboratively with an Assistant Psychologist and Social Prescribing Link Worker, and with the haematology doctors, community and hospital clinical nurse specialists and liaise at times with ward nursing staff and the apheresis team, who are very supportive of psychology and multi-disciplinary input. The postholder would join a well-established and supportive clinical health and neuropsychology department at the trust, which provides regular CPD and peer supervision. We have well-established links with the St Georges University and are actively involved in promoting the work of psychology and pain management within haemoglobinopathies through research, presentations at conferences and teaching. Our service is recognised for being accessible to patients and staff and strives to be as representative of the local population as much as possible. We would particularly welcome applicants who can add to the diversity of the psychology team and who value working with diverse communities.
4 WTE (15 hours/week) and we are happy to discuss the working pattern however it would be very helpful for the post holder to work on Wednesdays, as this is the day the MDT and outpatient clinic take place.
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Qualifications and Training
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical 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.
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, health psychology and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience of working with a wide variety of client 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.
Experience of psychological work with people with physical health problems.
Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with life long health conditions such as haemoglobinopathies.
Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Ability to use Microsoft word to produce clinical reports and other documents as required by the service.
Experience of audit, project work and research.
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.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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