Clinical Psychologist - Bariatric Surgery

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other

  Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values

• Other

  Commitment and adherence to equality, diversity and inclusion

• Other

  Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviours.

• Other

  Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others.

• Other

  Ability to concentrate intensively for substantial periods of time during patient contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.

• Other

  Ability to produce high quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints.

• Knowledge

  Knowledge/understanding of confidentiality issues

• Knowledge

  Highly developed knowledge and clinical experience of long term health conditions.

• Knowledge

  Highly developed knowledge of key NHS policy developments for patients living with obesity and long-term conditions.

• Knowledge

  Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems.

• Knowledge

  Highly developed knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally.

• Knowledge

  Highly developed knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.

• Experience

  Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care.

• Experience

  Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the specialty as required by professional accrediting/registration body (e.g. BPS/ HCPC/ BABCP).

• Experience

  Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts including working with interpreters.

• Experience

  Experience of specialist placement or pre or post training experience in a specialist weight management service or related area.

• Experience

  Experience of delivering group work.

• Experience

  Experience of teaching or training other staff.

• Experience

  Experience of providing on- going consultation and teaching to non-psychologists within medical and/or community settings.

• Experience

  Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as care co- ordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan

• Skills/Abilities

  Skills in working across multidisciplinary settings.

• Skills/Abilities

  Highly-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.

• Skills/Abilities

  Highly-developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance.

• Skills/Abilities

  Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

• Skills/Abilities

  Highly-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyze information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.

• Skills/Abilities

  Skills for undertaking audit and monitoring of service activity and outcomes.

• Skills/Abilities

  Competence in advanced IT packages including keyboard skills.

• Skills/Abilities

  Competence in using virtual consultation programmes (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Attend Anywhere)

• Skills/Abilities

  Ability to act as a specialist psychology professional and work autonomously in community and hospital settings.

• Skills/Abilities

  Ability to provide a culturally-competent and non-stigmatizing service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health.

• Skills/Abilities

  Ability to use discretion in applying specialist knowledge and policy to local circumstances and situations, in liaison with Line manager and Head of Service.

• Education/qualifications

  Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist)

• Education/qualifications

  Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)

• Education/qualifications

  BPS statement of Equivalence and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) or Accredited training as a CBT Therapist, and core mental health profession

• Education/qualifications

  Full registration: 1. HCPC (Psychologists and Arts Therapists) 2. BABCP 3. UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

• Education/qualifications

  Three or more supervised clinical placements (including health psychology and mental health specialisms) and research skills