Clinical Psychologist

Role description

Job summary

Band 7 Clinical Psychologist (0.8 WTE, Fixed Term for 6 Months)

We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to join our Adult Mental Health Crisis and Inpatient Teams on a 6-month fixed-term contract (0.8 WTE).

This is an excellent opportunity to work within a psychologically led service, supporting adults with trauma, severe mental health difficulties, and complex needs. The role involves providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention across inpatient wards and the crisis pathway, alongside delivering stabilisation work, group interventions, reflective practice, and team formulations.

You will work closely with Practitioner and Assistant Psychologists, with support and supervision from senior psychology colleagues. The post also offers opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement, teaching, and evaluation projects.

We are ideally looking for someone who is able to commence the role as soon as possible.

Secondment Opportunity: Applicants must obtain approval from their substantive line manager before applying and provide evidence of this as part of the application process.

Please note: This vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa. Therefore, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is unable to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Main duties of the job

Delivering systematic provision of specialist psychological assessments, joint assessments, formulation, care planning and individual/ group interventions within the inpatient setting, by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.

Working autonomously and within a supportive team, you will provide clinical guidance and advice with evidence based and bespoke psychological care to the service users.

To contribute to the planning and organisation of inpatient services.

To provide clinical supervision and to offer advice and consultation on service users' psychological care and risk management to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers.

To provide support for staff development including training, group supervision, team formulation sessions, reflective practice and to play an active role within the MDT meetings.

Staying connected to your colleagues professionally and ensuring you are supported through regular attendance at Inpatient Psychology Hub meetings, AMH Specialty meetings, Trustwide Psychology CPD days, CPD, SIGs, group supervision, your clinical, managerial and professional supervision.

Being active in your own clinical and professional development which we will actively support you with.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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