Senior Clinical Psychologist: Staff Psychology & Bariatric Surgery

Senior Clinical Psychologist: Staff Psychology & Bariatric Surgery NHS AfC: Band 8a Main area Clinical Health Psychology Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent: It is necessary for the post-holder to work on Thursdays as well as either Wednesdays or Fridays. Hours: 22.5 hours per week

• Part time
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working
• Compressed hours

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Employer: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Huddersfield Royal Infirmary/ Calderdale Royal Hospital

Town: Huddersfield

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 29/04/:59

Interview date: 15/05/2025

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

We are delighted to offer this new permanent post for a Senior Clinical Psychologist for a split post working into the Staff Psychology and Bariatric Surgery services. The successful candidate will join a rapidly expanding Clinical Health Psychology Department within Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT).

This post is for a total of 0.6 WTE, with 0.4 WTE in Staff Psychology and 0.2 WTE in Bariatric Surgery.

Clinical and professional supervision will be provided by the Principal Clinical Psychologists who are clinical leads for the relevant services.

Main duties of the job Staff Psychology - This post will involve providing psychological services to the workforce of an acute hospital trust. You will be joining an existing team at an exciting time of service development. The service has recently concluded a pilot phase of new staff support services like group debriefing and are looking to now consolidate and embed these services across the trust.

Experience of delivering group interventions and/or psychological education and training would be desirable.

Bariatric Surgery - This post involves psychological assessment and therapeutic input to patients preparing for and adjusting to bariatric surgery. Experience of working with adults with complex mental health problems is key and experience in bariatric surgery or weight management services is desirable. You will be joining an existing service based within a multidisciplinary team which greatly values and welcomes psychological input.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities In the Staff Psychology Service (0.4 WTE), the successful candidate will play a valuable role in an existing team to refine and further embed a post-incident group debriefing service into the Trust's staff support offer. The successful candidate will provide clinical oversight of the service which is delivered by multi-disciplinary colleagues and provide reflective practice to these colleagues. Another dimension of the role will be to engage the workforce in recently developed interventions, like a self-guided online resource for colleagues. The post holder will also supervise and line manage the service Assistant Psychologist.

Within the Bariatric Surgery service (0.2 WTE), the post primarily involves the delivery of psychological care and pre-surgery psychological assessment to patients seeking and adjusting to bariatric surgery. The post-holder would be joining an existing service provided by the Principal Clinical Psychologist in the team to broaden capacity within the service. The successful candidate will liaise with specialist dietitians, nurses, surgeons and other medical staff to contribute to patient care and MDT decisions. There may be opportunities for contribution to audit, service evaluation and training.

Person specification QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies, as accredited by the British Psychological Society
• Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling (or equivalent prior to 1995) by course accredited by the BPS and registration as a practitioner psychologist with HCPC
• Completion of formal clinical supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Experience of working with clinical presentations equivalent to or relevant to this role
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings and with difficult to treat groups.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and offering systemic interpretations to have impact on the team functioning in patient care.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health
• Relevant experience of developing and setting up new services
• Experience of working with NHS staff and teams or equivalent

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Ability to exercise the full clinical responsibility for patient's psychological care and treatment within the clinical specialty and to co-ordinate the psychological care provided by others.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to provide emotional support, consultation and professional mentorship to multidisciplinary team members

Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co-create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that's why we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.

Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard £26.40 or Basic £26.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

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