Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (0.91WTE/34 hour per week) - Clinical Health Psychology

Would you like to develop your skills and experience in Clinical Health Psychology? We are looking to welcome a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to our Clinical Health Psychology Service at Royal Bolton Hospital, based at Great Lever Health Centre. We are a friendly and supportive team of psychologists who provide specialist input for people with a range of physical health conditions using approaches including ACT, CBT, CFT & EMDR. You will have the opportunity to work with cardiac, gastroenterology, dermatology, respiratory, ICU follow-up (outpatient), oncology and palliative care referrals as well as provide input to the MDT persistent pain management service.

The post is 0.91WTE (34 hours) and permanent. Flexible working is supported wherever possible, including the opportunity for some remote working in line with the needs of the service and applicant.

Experience of working in clinical health psychology is desirable. However, we are also keen to hear from applicants working in other specialties with valuable transferable skills to bring to the role.

If you would like to know more about the role please contact Dr Deb Anderson, Clinical Psychologist on 01204 390045 or [email protected] for further details.

Band 7/8a Preceptorship considered - we welcome applications from newly qualified or soon to be qualified psychologists

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the clinical health psychology team and the persistent pain management MDT.

To provide assessment and intervention to patients with a range of physical health conditions, including persistent pain.

To facilitate a pain management group programme in conjunction with MDT colleagues.

To provide advice and consultation to MDT colleagues and medical teams.

To promote psychological thinking with non-psychology colleagues.

To participate in teaching, training, audit, and service development.

To provide clinical supervision to psychology and non-psychology colleagues (where appropriate).

About us

We have a long and proud history of caring for generations of local people and can trace our roots all the way back to 1814 with the first hospital in Bolton - the Bolton Dispensary in the town centre.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, we became an integrated provider with community health services joining the trust. Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, we deliver hospital and community based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 310,000+ people.

The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women's and children's services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester. We're structured in four clinical divisions - Community Services, Families and Diagnostics, Medicine, and Surgery and are led by a Board of Directors. As an NHS Foundation Trust we're accountable to our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners.

Buildings, names and models of care have changed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant and is prevalent among our 6,718 staff members: the enduring commitment to providing the best health and care for the people of Bolton.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications & Professional Registration

Essential

• Post-graduate Doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Desirable

• Completion of clinical supervision training as provided by doctoral training courses for the supervision of psychology doctoral trainee placements

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of NHS care settings, including supervised post-qualification experience.
• Experience in the psychological assessment, management and treatment of a variety of client groups, across the whole life course, with a range of presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of risk assessment & management.

Desirable

• Post-qualification experience in clinical health psychology or related client group.
• Clinical experience working with persistent pain.