Principal Applied Psychologist in Health
- NHS
- Part Time
- Southampton
- 62215.00 - 72293.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
We would like to invite applicants to join us within the University of Hospital of Southampton (UHS) Adult Psychology service. The post includes working within the rheumatology service (0.3wte) and ongoing project work within the service (0.1wte).
The postholder will work closely with the rheumatology service to develop services for teenagers and young people and develop proposals for broader service developments. You will be supported by a large and friendly team of psychologists who work in clinical health, staff and liaison psychology in UHS.
Balancing wellbeing with work demands and developing your professional skills are highly valued within the UHS Adult Psychology team. It offers many opportunities to develop your interest in therapeutic approaches through informal networking, facilitated reflective practice, education days and specialist supervision or discussion groups. Currently we have active interests in Systemic, Acceptance and Commitment, Cognitive Analytic Therapy and EMDR therapeutic approaches. Funded training opportunities are available to all team Psychologists; recently these have included EMDR, ACT and CAT.
The team can accommodate flexible working with most posts having an element of remote working.
UHS Adult Psychology are active in local and national specialist psychology groups, are developing a research strategy and have close links with Southampton University Clinical and Health Psychology courses.
Main duties of the job
The post involves working with senior leads in the hospital to develop services or rheumatology or other agreed projects. Within rheumatology, you will work with patients, families and the wider healthcare team to offer assessment and interventions and embed psychological principals..
The Band 8b post is suitable for psychologists interested in working with teams and being involved in systemic interventions as well as working with individuals and families.
Experience in working in an acute physical health setting and developing services within these settings is desirable.
As a principal psychologist, the postholder will offer supervision and management to other psychologists or psychological therapists and be involved in service development and leadership within agreed medical services and the broader psychology service.
We have generic job descriptions to assist career development and gaining experience. We would encourage people to contact the team to find out more about the posts and the clinical area. 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 Alison Pearce (Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist for UHS Adults) by email [email protected]
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy.
- Management or organisational training
- Accreditation as a therapist with BABCP, SfDBT, ACAT or similar body.
Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of working as a principal clinical psychologist.
- 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 professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of working as a psychologist within a physical health context.
- Experience of supervising qualified psychologists and working with management to develop services.
Desirable
- Experience of working within the allocated medical service or setting.
- Experience of working within an acute physical health setting.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of managing staff.
- Experience of providing neuropsychological assessment
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- For posts working in medical services, knowledge of the theory and practice of working with the psychological implications of physical health problems. For all services, knowledge of a trauma-informed approach to care.
- Skills in psychological therapies used to work with physical health and trauma such as CBT, ACT, EMDR, mindfulness approaches, Systemic therapies.
- Has received training (either formal or through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to constructively manage situations and people at times of conflict.
- Ability to work collaboratively with senior managers and staff in service delivery and developments.
- 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 patient group and service..
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines
- Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving service user experience.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Knowledge and skills in therapies working with the allocated medical area.
- Skills in the ...
