Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an 8a clinical/counselling psychologist to join the  existing clinical health psychology team at Bolton Foundation Trust.  The  Clinical health psychology service has a supportive team working into a number of different specialities within the trust, with well established links to the North West Clinical Psychology training courses.

As a specialist psychologist, you will work  in an already established Heart failure team and Young  Persons Diabetes Team.  You will be responsible for  clinical psychology provision within the Heart Failure service and Young persons Diabetes service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder provides specialist psychological assessment and intervention, advice and consultation to non-psychological colleagues, across heart failure/ cardiac care and young persons diabetes care .  You will provide specialised assessments and interventions in these multi-disciplinary settings including wards and medical out-patient clinics.  You will provide training and supervision to members of the multidisciplinary team in order to improve psychological input.  In addition to working within these services, you will provide specialised assessment and intervention to general health patients from other specialisms  for e.g. palliative, cancer, gastroenterology.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification, which provide full details about the role.