Job Overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
We are recruiting psychologist roles within the Major Trauma (0.5 WTE), Spinal Cord Injury (0.5 WTE) and Teenage and Young Person’s Cancer Services (0.6 WTE). Flexible working is supported; we welcome applications from candidates wishing to take on one role or combine roles (between 0.5 and 1.0 WTE).
Duties and Responsibilities
You will work with clinical teams to provide a psychological service to patients, families and staff. You will offer assessment, therapeutic interventions, supervision, consultation and training. You will embed psychological principles within patient care and link to national specialist groups within clinical health psychology.
Experience in an acute physical health setting and with evidence‑based approaches to managing trauma is beneficial. These posts may be appropriate for preceptorships and newly qualified psychologists depending on pre‑qualification experience.
Within all posts you will connect with the wider UHS Adult Psychology team and other services such as Child Psychology, Neuro Psychology, Mental Health Liaison and wider psychological services to develop pathways around patient care.
Applicants in the final stages of training who will be applying for HCPC registration after qualification will be considered for a preceptorship role.
Person Specification: Qualifications, Experience and Training
Essential Criteria
- Post‑graduate doctoral level training in applied 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.
- In‑depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the entire life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings, 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 supervision.
- Experience of service development and working with teams.
Desirable Criteria
- Pre‑qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post‑doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of working within a physical health setting and in particular the area that the job is focused on.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with trauma using evidence‑based approaches.
- Experience of working within the NHS as an Applied Psychologist.
- Experience of neuropsychological and psychometric assessment.
We encourage applicants to contact us to discuss posts and to carefully consider the person specification in their application. If you would like to find out more information about this post, please contact Dr Lizzy Pink (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Acute Care Pathway Lead) and Dr Helen Aiston (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cancer and Blood Disorders Lead) by email adultpsychadmin@uhs.nhs.uk.
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