Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We have an exciting opportunity for three full time, permanent, band 7 clinical psychologists to join our growing clinical psychology service for adults who receive treatment at the Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (which is part of Bartshealth NHS Trust).
The Bart’s Heart Centre (BHC) Clinical Psychology Service works with adult patients and their families who live with an acute or chronic cardiac condition and those who require a critical care admission (predominantly cardio-thoracic and cancer related). It also provides a range of support structures for staff who look after these patients. Specifically these patients are under the care of specialist multidisciplinary teams within the Bart’s Heart Centre, including the adult congenital heart service (GUCH), The Heart Attack Centre (HAC); The Adult Critical Care Unit (ACCU); Heart Failure, Electrophysiology, Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions and the Chest Wall Service. The post holder will be working with adults who have life limiting and life-threatening conditions.
The service is managed by a consultant clinical psychologist who is responsible for leading and developing the clinical psychology provision for cardiac and critical care patients, and coordinating support for the staff who look after those patients across the Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Within the service, there are also four service lead clinical psychologists, each coordinating psychology provision for their area of the Heart Centre, who will provide the line management and clinical supervision for the three band 7 post holders.
We operate within a mixed model, i.e. specialty attached psychologists embedded within their respective medical teams with centralised referral allocation and discussion so that workload can be shared evenly between psychologists and allocated according to skill mix and case complexity. The band 7 postholders will pick up psychology referrals from specialist teams across the BHC and will work closely with the psychology service leads as well as the consultant service lead, allowing for a good balance of autonomy and support in line with their stage in career development. These posts are varied and exciting roles with lots of opportunity for service development and research as well as providing specialist clinical psychology input through direct work (with inpatients and outpatients) and indirect work through consultation to the wider multidisciplinary team. The Barts Heart Centre Teams are very welcoming, and they really value psychology input for their patients and staff.
There is also a wider team of clinical psychologists, on the St Bartholomew’s site, working in cancer and palliative care and respiratory services with lots of opportunity for peer support, joint case working when a specialty overlap exists and shared service development on common themes across the hospital, for example, staff support.
The clinical psychology service which started as a 12 month project for congenital heart patients in 2017 has been extended and developed over the past three years and now provides an established service to the Barts Heart Centre with a structure that allows for appropriate supervision, line management, leadership and career development.
We would welcome applicants who are qualified as well as those who are due to qualify from clinical training in Autumn 2021. Interested applicants are strongly advised to contact Dr Vicky Kelly (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) to arrange a time to discuss the post by emailing her on: vicky.kelly3@nhs.net.
For further details / informal visits contact:
NameVicky KellyJob titleConsultant Clinical PsychologistEmail addressvicky.kelly3@nhs.net
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.
Our people strategy for 2019-2022 sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition. In this strategy, we set out the deal we are offering to you in return for living and breathing our values so that they shape everything that you do every single day.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Tower Hamlets CAMHS
Early Intervention Psychosis (Bipolar and Psychosis) Team / Mental Health Support Team in Schools
Band 8a: 8 sessions (5/3) Fixed term 12 months
Clinical Psychologist
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Tower Hamlets are developing. We want the very best services for our children and young people. Thats why we are looking for someone like you.
We are looking for a Band 8a clinical psychologist to join our Early Intervention (Bipolar and Psychosis) Team in Tower Hamlets for 12 months. We aim to deliver a timely and comprehensive assessment and treatment service, offering goal based episodes of care, to children and young people and families presenting with a first episode psychosis, including bipolar disorder, or are at risk of developing a full psychotic illness. You will contribute to further developing and delivering the early intervention in psychosis service in the Borough. We have strong links to the East London Coborn Inpatient Service as well as to the Tower Hamlets Adult Early Intervention Service and Early Detection Service.
The service embraces continual improvement of the staff as well as the management team, has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.
The current COVID crisis has obviously affected our service delivery. Our provision is now a combination of direct face to face and more remote working, particularly embracing digital technology where possible. We have a newly refurbished office that allows safe social distancing for a core limited team whilst we are encouraging and supporting work from home wherever possible. This is a fast changing landscape and the successful candidate will have experience and flexibility in delivering different approaches to assessment, treatment and professional interface.
This post is based primarily in our multidisciplinary Early Intervention Psychosis (Bipolar and Psychosis) Team, within a busy CAMHS. In addition, you would provide 3 sessions of supervision to the recently developed school-based Mental Health Support Team practitioners. The MHST is part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community.
It will be of particular value if you come to the service with knowledge, clinical expertise and experience of working with children and young people with early signs of or florid psychosis as well as in CBT for depression and anxiety disorders. However, appropriate training opportunities will also be supported.
We are looking for: good communicators with energy, motivation and enthusiasm; the ability to work with individuals and families with complex difficulties and to work effectively with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency contexts; flexibility of approach; commitment to evidence-based practice; and the pursuit of the highest possible quality of service.
For more information please contact: Dr Hanspeter Dorner, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and EIP Clinical Team Lead (hanspeter.dorner1@nhs.net), Dr Debbie Madell, Lead Clinical Psychologist (Debbie.madell@nhs.net) and Pennie Haywood, Joint Mental Health Support Team Lead (pennie.haywood@nhs.net).
Closing Date: Sunday 28th February 2021
For further details / informal visits contact:
NameHanspeter DornerEmail addressHanspeter.dorner1@nhs.netTelephone number07944067987Additional contact information
Hanspeter Dorner, telephone 07944067987, email Hanspeter.dorner1@nhs.net
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
As part of our recruitment process we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Protect and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS.
If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Clinical Psychologist
The Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health
AfC Band 7
Permanent- 30 hours
Full time or other part time options may be available
The Coborn Adolescent Centre for Mental Health
Does the idea of bringing psychological innovation to the heart of ward-based care energise you? Do you thrive in working in dynamic environments which require creative therapeutic responses? Are you committed to working compassionately with young people, their families and colleagues? If so, we have a opportunity for you to join our team at the Coborn Centre in East London.
The Coborn Centre is located in well resourced, purpose built premises at Newham University Hospital. We work with 12-18 year old young people and their families across the East London boroughs of Newham, Hackney & Tower Hamlets as well as Luton and Bedfordshire and other London boroughs. The Centre comprises of 12 acute beds, 16 intensive care beds and up to 8 day patient places. The service has led the way in the design of adolescent mental health facilities nationally. We have been awarded an excellent by the QNIC accreditation process and outstanding by the CQC.
The client group is varied and challenging. Young people present with eating disorders, psychosis, low mood, anxiety disorders such as OCD and emotion regulation difficulties. Young people may also have autism or learning difficulties or be in need of an assessment. Young people may also have physical health needs. We work alongside an eclectic and dynamic multi-disciplinary staff group including family therapists, an art therapist, a drama therapist, social workers, nursing, occupational therapists and many more.
The Clinical Psychology team provides formulation driven, therapeutic assessments in order to facilitate an understanding of the young persons strengths and needs. From the assessment, interventions are offered both directly and through consultation with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team. As a team, we draw on skills in third-wave CBT areas of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Mindfulness, tailored relapse prevention packages for psychosis and CBT for eating disorders. Our approach follows a Trauma Informed Care approach and attachment forms a key part of our thinking and interventions. We also provide a significant group programme across the centre and provide cognitive assessments and autism assessments for young people when appropriate. Psychological input begins at admission and is focused on enabling young people to return to their community as soon as possible. The psychology team each work across all parts of the centre.
You will join the psychology team which consists of one Lead Clinical Psychologist, one Senior Clinical Psychologist and one other band 7 Clinical Psychologist. You will continue to develop the psychology provision through providing supervision to the wider MDT as well as hold a clinical case load. There will be considerable opportunities for developing your clinical leadership skills, sharing your clinical expertise and developing your capacity to enjoy multi-disciplinary team working. We would value your input to our quality improvement programme, and the development of psychological skills within the wider team. We are committed to staff development and reflective practice, with considerable resources in the Team and wider trust to support this.
We welcome informal enquiries and would enjoy talking with you about our work.
For further information on the above post please contact either Dr Kat Rumball (Lead Clinical Psychologist) via katrina.rumball@.nhs.net or 0207 540 6789 or Kamel Cheradi (Service Manger) on 0207 540 6789.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name Kamel CHERAD IEmail address kamel.cheradi@nhs.net Telephone number 020 75406789 Additional contact information
Kamel Cheradi, telephone 020 75406789, email kamel.cheradi@nhs.net
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
As part of our recruitment process we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Protect and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS.
If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
Base: Trust Wide
We are building a team of exceptional clinical psychologists to develop, deliver and evaluate initiatives of psychological wellbeing with teams of staff, as part of Barts Health NHS Trust’s commitment to being an outstanding place to work.
These new posts are funded for a two-year period, with a key role in developing psychological wellbeing for our staff in everything we do - and as a sign of our investment in our staff in the long-term.
In this role you will be involved in working with teams and the leaders of teams to build sustainable good practice. There will be a focus upon engaging with groups of staff who may not otherwise be expected to seek involvement. There will be the opportunity for some in the team to offer individual-level, evidence-based psychological interventions, although more often expertise will be used to facilitate links with specialist service provision from our mental health service providers within the NHS.
The successful candidate will need to be skilled in collaborative working with multidisciplinary health professionals and an effective influencer of organisational change.
A commitment to being a champion for the psychological aspects of Trust staff wellbeing, plus the skills to evaluate and communicate this effectively and widely, will be important.
If you are interested in arranging a conversation about the roles, please email Professional Lead for Clinical Health Psychology: Carla Croft carla.croft1@nhs.net
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.
Our people strategy for 2019-2022 sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition. In this strategy, we set out the deal we are offering to you in return for living and breathing our values so that they shape everything that you do every single day.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic band 8a clinical/ counselling psychologists to join our Trust and work in the Adult Community Service Line in Wandsworth.
Following additional investment in psychological services and recent vacancies we are recruiting to the following positions:
1) Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - 37.5 hours per week (1.0wte)
2) Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - 37.5 hours per week (1.0wte)
3) Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - 37.5 hours per week (1.0wte)
4) Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - 15 hours per week (0.4wte)
Posts 1, 2, 3: Community Mental Health Teams
The Community Mental Health Teams provide specialist assessment, treatment and recovery work for adults with a wide variety of severe and enduring mental health needs creating a stimulating and rewarding role for clinical psychology. The Trust has a strong commitment to the development of psychological work and you will be part of a larger group of psychologists working in the service and will receive regular supervision from the borough psychology professional lead. There are good CPD opportunities within the Trust.
You will be responsible for the provision of a systematic clinical psychology service within the context of a multidisciplinary team focussing on specialist psychological assessment and evidence based psychological interventions, including group work. You will also undertake service evaluation, audit and development. You will be expected to provide a training placement to a trainee clinical psychologist.
Post 4: Rehabilitation Service
This post in based in two intensive supported housing services run by One Housing Group and South West London and St George's Mental Health Services. This is a step-down rehabilitation service for persons with severe mental health needs who were previously under the care of the community mental health teams. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team that includes a psychologist, psychiatrist, occupational therapist and care coordinators. You will be responsible for the provision of direct and indirect psychological interventions including individual and group work to service users and consultation supervision and training to staff. There are opportunities to jointly supervise trainee clinical psychologists.
Important relevant information
At South West London St Georges Mental Health Trust we are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We are Members of Stonewall Diversity Champions and also a member of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion.
As part of the Trust's commitment to Equalities and Diversity, the Trust supports the establishment of Staff Networks groups to promote diversity in the workplace:
We provide reasonable adjustments to the interview process for any candidates with a disability.
Please note:
Clinical Psychologist or Systemic Therapist
Children, young people mental health services
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and energetic clinical psychologist or systemic therapist to join Barnets Integrated Clinical Services (BICS), a CYP MH Service for CYP and families presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties in the community and within social care. We are a strong, supportive, friendly multidisciplinary department and welcome for either a clinical psychologist or systemic therapist to join us. (This post is equivalent to agenda for change Band 7 to 8a salary depending on experience)
BICS has four teams within their service and you will join the clinical social care (CSC) team. Here, you will be embedded within the safeguarding teams offering community based mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people receiving a range of interventions from Barnets Children safeguarding teams. You will work with children, young people, carers and families that are allocated to a social worker, under a CIN/CP plan or identified as a Child in Care who present with moderate mental health difficulties. The role will also involve training, consultation and advice to social workers and wider professionals.
We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with leadership from the Clinical Lead, line management and supervision from the Clinical Manager and/or Senior CSC clinician and peer support from the other clinical practitioners in your team.
We offer excellent specialist CPD and training opportunities such as in specialist clinical therapeutic approaches. The department has established strong working relationships with colleagues in Childrens Social Care. In addition, you will have ample opportunities to work with partner agencies such as Barnets Tier 3 NHS Specialist CAMHS, other community and voluntary services. We also have links with the London Clinical Psychology and Systemic Training Schemes.
Barnet is one of the most diverse boroughs in London which provides opportunities and challenges that are rewarding, both professionally and personally. We are focused on making Barnet an even better place to live for all families, we call this ambition Family Friendly Barnet. At the heart of this vision is our aim of helping families, children and young people to become resilient so they can thrive and achieve.
An exciting career opportunity for an enthusiastic and energetic clinical psychologist or systemic therapist to join Barnets Integrated Clinical Services (BICS), a CYP MH Service for CYP and families presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties in the community and within social care.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
London Borough of Barnet
2 Bristol Avenue
London
NW9 4EW
At UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) our success starts with you.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest and most successful Foundation Trusts in the UK with an international reputation and a tradition of innovation.
Based in the busy West End of London, we have a lively and vibrant working atmosphere, with quick and easy transport links to all our sites. Our size and resources enable us to offer a range of attractive benefits as well as unparalleled education and development opportunities for staff at all levels. This includes an extensive portfolio of academic and clinical courses and programmes ranging from ongoing personal development through to clinical excellence and leadership skills. UCLH prides itself on its investment in staff both in terms of developing career skills but also its commitment to staff health and wellbeing.
University College London Hospital are seeking Bank Band 8a Clinical Psychologist – Trust Wide.
Job title: Clinical Psychologist – Trust Wide
Division: Workforce
Board/corporate function: Corporate
Salary band: 8A
Accountable to: Head of Staff Psychological Services
Hours per week: 37.5
Location: 56-58 Gower Street
Essential Requirements;
All candidates for posts at UCLH are required to complete our values assessment.
In the ‘Further Links’ section to the right of this advert, please follow the link to the UCLH Values Assessment Tool. Once you have completed the assessment and scored highly enough, you will receive a certificate number. In order to start your application, you must copy and paste (do not type) your certificate number into your application form when requested.
The certificate covers all applications you make to UCLH for 6 months - you do not need to take the test for each job application you make. After 6 months you may complete the assessment again.
If you have lost your certificate number, you can have a reminder sent to your email address by accessing the Values Assessment Certificate Number Reminder tool in the ‘Further Links’ section to the right of this advert.
Please note that if you are at present in a training position on the 2016 new junior doctor’s contract and are applying for a Trust doctor role your salary will not be pay protected.
You will be placed on the appropriate point of the Trust Doctor pay scale based on your previous experience.
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We have an exciting opportunity for three full time, permanent, band 7 clinical psychologists to join our growing clinical psychology service for adults who receive treatment at the Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (which is part of Bartshealth NHS Trust).
The Bart’s Heart Centre (BHC) Clinical Psychology Service works with adult patients and their families who live with an acute or chronic cardiac condition and those who require a critical care admission (predominantly cardio-thoracic and cancer related). It also provides a range of support structures for staff who look after these patients. Specifically these patients are under the care of specialist multidisciplinary teams within the Bart’s Heart Centre, including the adult congenital heart service (GUCH), The Heart Attack Centre (HAC); The Adult Critical Care Unit (ACCU); Heart Failure, Electrophysiology, Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions and the Chest Wall Service. The post holder will be working with adults who have life limiting and life-threatening conditions.
The service is managed by a consultant clinical psychologist who is responsible for leading and developing the clinical psychology provision for cardiac and critical care patients, and coordinating support for the staff who look after those patients across the Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Within the service, there are also four service lead clinical psychologists, each coordinating psychology provision for their area of the Heart Centre, who will provide the line management and clinical supervision for the three band 7 post holders.
We operate within a mixed model, i.e. specialty attached psychologists embedded within their respective medical teams with centralised referral allocation and discussion so that workload can be shared evenly between psychologists and allocated according to skill mix and case complexity. The band 7 postholders will pick up psychology referrals from specialist teams across the BHC and will work closely with the psychology service leads as well as the consultant service lead, allowing for a good balance of autonomy and support in line with their stage in career development. These posts are varied and exciting roles with lots of opportunity for service development and research as well as providing specialist clinical psychology input through direct work (with inpatients and outpatients) and indirect work through consultation to the wider multidisciplinary team. The Barts Heart Centre Teams are very welcoming, and they really value psychology input for their patients and staff.
There is also a wider team of clinical psychologists, on the St Bartholomew’s site, working in cancer and palliative care and respiratory services with lots of opportunity for peer support, joint case working when a specialty overlap exists and shared service development on common themes across the hospital, for example, staff support.
The clinical psychology service which started as a 12 month project for congenital heart patients in 2017 has been extended and developed over the past three years and now provides an established service to the Barts Heart Centre with a structure that allows for appropriate supervision, line management, leadership and career development.
We would welcome applicants who are qualified as well as those who are due to qualify from clinical training in Autumn 2021. Interested applicants are strongly advised to contact Dr Vicky Kelly (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) to arrange a time to discuss the post by emailing her on: vicky.kelly3@nhs.net.
For further details / informal visits contact:
NameVicky KellyJob titleConsultant Clinical PsychologistEmail addressvicky.kelly3@nhs.net
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.
Our people strategy for 2019-2022 sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition. In this strategy, we set out the deal we are offering to you in return for living and breathing our values so that they shape everything that you do every single day.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.
Please note that the Ministry of Defence will be transitioning the Clinical Psychology cadre to the MOD’s NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions of Service with an anticipated implementation date of Spring 2021. This post has been formally job matched at AfC 8c.
In this civilian post you will be delivering occupationally-focused mental healthcare within the Ministry of Defence whose purpose is to protect the people of the UK, prevent conflict, and be ready to fight our enemies.
Experience of working with military populations would be welcome but it is by no means a pre-requisite for application. Your interest, enthusiasm and commitment are more important!
We are seeking to recruit a part time Clinical Psychologist to join the Defence Clinical Psychology Service (DCPS), a team of clinical psychologists and psychological therapists working within military Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMH) and specialist services throughout the UK. DCMHs are multi-disciplinary teams comprising military and civilian staff: psychiatrists, mental health nurses, social workers, mental health practitioners and psychologists. The job is challenging and varied. Whilst there are similarities with NHS roles, to make the most of this opportunity you will need to be willing to embrace a different organizational culture, take on wider team responsibilities and draw on your applied psychological knowledge and expertise.We have a strong professional structure led by a Head of Service/Defence Consultant Advisor in Clinical Psychology and regular opportunities to meet and train as a professional community of practice.
The successful applicant for this role will work with a part time Clinical Psychology colleague under the line management of the consultant clinical Psychologist, to manage, develop and contribute to clinical psychology and psychological therapy provision within the catchment area for DCMH Woolwich. You will provide advice, training, consultation and supervision to other clinical psychologists / psychological therapists and wider team colleagues as required.
The duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to;
Providing specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- Responsibility for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, (carers, families and groups – where appropriate), within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
This is a permanent part time position for 22.2 hours per week.
Selection Process Details
Applicants must show evidence of holding the following qualifications, training and memberships;
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and ability to evidence appropriate knowledge.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Civil Service Behaviours:
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it using your surname then first name prior to submitting your application.
Further Information
The successful candidate will have access to several additional benefits including a generous annual leave allowance, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave as well as reimbursement of some professional fees and subscriptions. Work-related travel expenses are reimbursed and overseas travel is sometimes possible. You will be able to access on-site Messing and gym facilities.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. For more information paste the following in to your browser or search gov.uk: Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans.
Please ensure you have read all the details in the important information link prior to applying.
Combat Stress was established in 1919. We are the UKs leading charity for veterans mental health. For a century, weve helped former servicemen and women deal with trauma-related mental health conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression.
Today we provide UK-wide support to veterans from every service and every conflict, on the phone and online, in the community and at our treatment centres. Were on a mission to raise awareness that invisible injuries can be just as hard to cope with as physical ones. So, when a veteran is having a tough time, were there to help tackle the past and to take on the future.
The Senior Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist will be part of an interdisciplinary team comprising occupational therapists, psychological therapists, psychiatrist and nurses within specialist clinical services for Veterans with complex trauma-related mental health problems as a result of their military service, particularly Complex-PTSD. They will offer specialist assessment, formulation and psychological interventions to address Veteran needs within an integrated interdisciplinary care pathway. Psychological interventions will span the range of evidence-based therapies for PTSD and C-PTSD, including TF-CBT, NET, CPT, CFT for trauma and PE. They will support and advise colleagues on all issues relating to psychological therapies, psychologically informed service provision and trauma-informed care.
You will work within a reputable charity that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our veterans, that has a fantastic cause and a committed follower base.
Benefits:
30 days paid holiday plus bank holidays
Competitive stakeholder pension scheme - contributions matched up to 10% of salary
Discount shopping vouchers
Cycle to work scheme
Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
Plus many more.
OVERALL PURPOSE
Clinically supervise and manage Band 7 psychologists/cognitive behavioural psychotherapists and trainees/assistants based at the Hub and Outreach Hubs Ensure that the workload of psychologists/cognitive behavioural psychotherapists is effectively managed e.g. allocation of caseloads/capacity planning Contribute to monitoring and reporting of psychological therapy team activity and outcomes Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment using evidence-based trauma-focused CBT for Veterans with PTSD, Complex-PTSD, depression, emotional dysregulation, inter and intrapersonal problems and other complex trauma-related mental health problems Provide psychological consultation for the inter-disciplinary team and contribute to psychologically-informed treatment planning, development of a reflective team approach and trauma-informed services To promote the work of Combat Stress amongst other professionals by offering training and consultation both internally and externally. 2
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Management Responsibilities To contribute to service planning, working closely with the Principal Clinical Psychologist/Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist or Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Hub and Deputy Managers and the Head of Psychological Therapies and where appropriate lead on specific projects/initiatives Report on activity and performance of the psychological therapies team as required and support the development of systems for monitoring and data reporting as required To provide line management supervision for Band 7 psychologists/psychotherapists. To attend and where appropriate chair inter-disciplinary team clinical meetings, local psychological therapies team meeting and National Senior Psychological Therapists meetings To attend and contribute to local senior management, clinical governance and incidents/complaints meetings, carrying out prescribed tasks as appropriate (e.g. assisting with policy, development or implementation, investigating complaints) by agreement with line manager To follow relevant organisational policies and procedures for clinical and information governance and HR Clinical Responsibilities To demonstrate strong clinical leadership for the psychological therapies team and to assume a senior leadership role within the wider inter-disciplinary team, including Peer Support and Family Support colleagues To provide clinical advice and opinion to the psychological therapy and wider interdisciplinary team, Peer Support and Family Support colleagues, as well as external agencies as required To provide comprehensive psychological assessments of referred Veterans, using structured and semi-structured clinical interview, psychometric instruments and other assessments methods as appropriate. To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred Veterans with a range of problems, severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to Veterans formulation and treatment plan. To undertake risk assessment and risk management of referred Veterans and to provide advice to other professionals, both internal and external, on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To maintain a clinical caseload, within agreed limits and under the clinical supervision of the Principal Clinical Psychologist/Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist or Consultant Clinical Psychologist To provide high quality, evidence-based and evidence led treatments for Veterans with complex mental health problems including, but not restricted to PTSD, Complex- 3 PTSD, depression, emotional dysregulation, inter and intrapersonal problems and other complex trauma-related mental health problems, in 1:1 and group contexts. To take a lead on the promotion of evidence-based practice throughout our services and motivate other professionals to advance clinical practice and improve quality of care. To provide reports which communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner assessment, formulation, treatment planning and risk assessment. To take a lead in liaison with other Combat Stress staff in other centres and sections of the service, other health and social care staff, from a range of statutory and nonstatutory agencies including the Veterans charity sector, in the care provided to Veterans. To take a lead in promoting and developing positive and productive/effective working relationships with other inter-disciplinary clinical teams across the UK. To provide professional and clinical supervision Band 7 psychologists/cognitive behavioural psychotherapists and other professionals engaged in psychological assessments and treatments or undertaking clinical tasks within Combat Stress as agreed. To support the Principal Clinical Psychologist/Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (8b) and/or Consultant Clinical Psychologist (8c) in managing the care pathway to the Standard Operating Procedures to on the clinical records system to high accuracy To ensure that all team psychologists/cognitive behavioural psychotherapists are accredited with relevant professional bodies (HCPC/BABCP) and receive regular clinical supervision in line with organisational policy to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality interventions Administrative Responsibilities To communicate skilfully, tactfully, and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information with Veterans, carers and external referrers, taking into account of sensory and cultural barriers relevant to Veterans in particular, in this communication. To use Information Management and Technology effectively in accordance with the policies of the organisation. All staff that have access to Veterans records have a responsibility to ensure that these are maintained efficiently, and that confidentiality is protected in line with organisational policies. In addition, all health professionals are advised to compile records on the assumption that they are accessible to Veterans in line with the access to Health Records Act 1990. To complete incident reporting in accordance with the policies of the charity. Education and Training Responsibilities To take a lead in the provision of advice, consultation, and training to other interdisciplinary, Peer Support and Family Support staff working with Veterans. To take a lead in the development and co-ordination of internal staff development activities, including training to support trauma-informed service delivery. 4 To implement the clinical educational framework, which ensures that all psychological therapists maintain and develop their skills, knowledge, and expertise in this unique field of work. Research, Audit and Service Evaluation To utilise evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in all facets of clinical work (e.g., individual, group & family interventions, practice of supervision) and work with other team members. To oversee the undertaking of appropriate service evaluation, audit and research within Combat Stress as negotiated with Head of Psychological Therapies, Principal Clinical Psychologist/Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (8b) and/or Consultant Clinical Psychologist (8c), Head of Research and Hub Manager. To contribute to data analysis and report writing to inform external commissioners/ stakeholders and the Executive within Combat Stress as appropriate. Professional Responsibilities To participate in regular clinical professional supervision and appraisal as consistent with the requirements of Combat Stress and the post holders professional practice and/or Charity guidelines. To maintain and develop the highest standards of practice, through active participation in continuing professional development and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in psychological practice in areas related to the post. To maintain confidentiality of all client data in line with Organisational policy and the Data Protection Act 1998. To represent the Charity in a professional manner at all times. General Responsibilities To fully understand and adhere to the policies and procedures of the organisation. To be compliant with the administrative and clinical processes defined. To work in a flexible and responsive way to meet the changing needs of the service users and demands of the service. To promote a recovery focus throughout the veterans treatment journey. To promote equality, diversity, and the rights of the service users. To support partnership working. To follow safeguarding procedures to minimise risk of harm to children or vulnerable adults. To undertake any other duties at the request of the line manager which are commensurate with the role, including project work, internal rotation (as per contract) and absence cover. To contribute to the maintenance of a healthy and safe working environment by adhering to Health and Safety Organisational policies. 5 4. KEY RELATIONSHIPS Hub Manager/Deputy Manager Principal Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist and/or Consultant Clinical Psychologist Head of Psychological Therapies Senior Psychological Therapists across Combat Stress Inter-disciplinary Team Community Outreach Teams Research Team Quality and Clinical Governance Team Veteran Voice Group and other Service User Groups Peer Support workers Family Support workers NHS and other Veteran Mental Health Providers
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Combat Stress
Tyrwhitt House
Oaklawn Road
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 0BX
https://www.combatstress.org.uk/
Salary
£45.78k - £51.393k Per Year
Job Type
Full Time
Posted
4 days ago
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We have an exciting opportunity for three full time, permanent, band 7 clinical psychologists to join our growing clinical psychology service for adults who receive treatment at the Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (which is part of Bartshealth NHS Trust).
The Bart’s Heart Centre (BHC) Clinical Psychology Service works with adult patients and their families who live with an acute or chronic cardiac condition and those who require a critical care admission (predominantly cardio-thoracic and cancer related). It also provides a range of support structures for staff who look after these patients. Specifically these patients are under the care of specialist multidisciplinary teams within the Bart’s Heart Centre, including the adult congenital heart service (GUCH), The Heart Attack Centre (HAC); The Adult Critical Care Unit (ACCU); Heart Failure, Electrophysiology, Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions and the Chest Wall Service. The post holder will be working with adults who have life limiting and life-threatening conditions.
The service is managed by a consultant clinical psychologist who is responsible for leading and developing the clinical psychology provision for cardiac and critical care patients, and coordinating support for the staff who look after those patients across the Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Within the service, there are also four service lead clinical psychologists, each coordinating psychology provision for their area of the Heart Centre, who will provide the line management and clinical supervision for the three band 7 post holders.
We operate within a mixed model, i.e. specialty attached psychologists embedded within their respective medical teams with centralised referral allocation and discussion so that workload can be shared evenly between psychologists and allocated according to skill mix and case complexity. The band 7 postholders will pick up psychology referrals from specialist teams across the BHC and will work closely with the psychology service leads as well as the consultant service lead, allowing for a good balance of autonomy and support in line with their stage in career development. These posts are varied and exciting roles with lots of opportunity for service development and research as well as providing specialist clinical psychology input through direct work (with inpatients and outpatients) and indirect work through consultation to the wider multidisciplinary team. The Barts Heart Centre Teams are very welcoming, and they really value psychology input for their patients and staff.
There is also a wider team of clinical psychologists, on the St Bartholomew’s site, working in cancer and palliative care and respiratory services with lots of opportunity for peer support, joint case working when a specialty overlap exists and shared service development on common themes across the hospital, for example, staff support.
The clinical psychology service which started as a 12 month project for congenital heart patients in 2017 has been extended and developed over the past three years and now provides an established service to the Barts Heart Centre with a structure that allows for appropriate supervision, line management, leadership and career development.
We would welcome applicants who are qualified as well as those who are due to qualify from clinical training in Autumn 2021. Interested applicants are strongly advised to contact Dr Vicky Kelly (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) to arrange a time to discuss the post by emailing her on: vicky.kelly3@nhs.net.
For further details / informal visits contact:
NameVicky KellyJob titleConsultant Clinical PsychologistEmail addressvicky.kelly3@nhs.net
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.
Our people strategy for 2019-2022 sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition. In this strategy, we set out the deal we are offering to you in return for living and breathing our values so that they shape everything that you do every single day.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.