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Senior Clinical Psychologist (XR08)
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Job Description
- Req#: C9298-ATH-416?language=en&page=688&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity .
- Experience of working in medical multi-disciplinary teams and offering systemic interpretations to have impact on the team functioning in patient care.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Experience of working within activity and waiting list targets
- Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society.
- Further training in a specialised area of clinical practice through formal post doctoral training or an evidenced portfolio of shorter courses and supervised practice.
- 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.
- Ability to exercise the full clinical responsibility for patients psychological care and treatment within the clinical specialty and to co-ordinate the psychological care provided by others.
- 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 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 behaviour.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to provide emotional support and professional mentorship to multi-disciplinary team members.
- Ability to work flexibly and respond to acute situations.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity .
- Experience of working in medical multi-disciplinary teams and offering systemic interpretations to have impact on the team functioning in patient care.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Experience of working within activity and waiting list targets
- Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society.
- Further training in a specialised area of clinical practice through formal post doctoral training or an evidenced portfolio of shorter courses and supervised practice.
- 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.
- Ability to exercise the full clinical responsibility for patients psychological care and treatment within the clinical specialty and to co-ordinate the psychological care provided by others.
- 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 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 behaviour.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to provide emotional support and professional mentorship to multi-disciplinary team members.
- Ability to work flexibly and respond to acute situations.
Job summary
We have a 1-year maternity leave cover post for a part time (0.6wte) Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work into the Cancer Psychology Service (including the Teenage and Young Adult team (TYA)) and the haematology psychology teams (sickle cell, thalassemia, haemophilia and Infected Blood Psychology Service) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The post is also open to Clinical or Counselling Psychologists with less experience who would be given additional support to do the role. Both the cancer and haematology psychology teams are a well-respected and appreciated contribution to the multi-disciplinary cancer and haematology services. The post offers the opportunity for 1:1 work with people undergoing treatment, as well as MDT consultation and supervision of staff.
There may be additional hours available in another service within the department.
Expected Shortlisting Date
17/07/2025
Planned Interview Date
25/06/2025
Main duties of the job
This post would suit a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with experience working in physical health settings/ medical team, ideally with experience of working with chronic health conditions. It would also suit a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing trauma informed care. The role will be to provide expert and specialist psychological assessment and treatment/intervention and contribute to service development. The psychologist will be integrated with the highly experienced and multi-disciplinary teams with both services. The post-holder may also provide supervision to other members of the team (dependent on experience).
About us
The post sits within the LTHT Cancer Psychology Service and Haematology team but will also have strong links with the wider Clinical & Health Psychology Department. The Department has flourished and has over 50 clinicians organised into three sectors (Medicine, Neuropsychology and Surgery & Rehabilitation). We have several special interest groups for psychologists wanting to develop therapeutic skills in areas such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Cognitive Analytic Therapy, as well as a focus on regular supervision.
There are very close links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Programme at the School of Medicine, Leeds University. There is the opportunity to offer a training placement to trainee clinical psychologists.
The Trust has a range of staff benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (including car leasing) and on-site facilities (e.g. nurseries).
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Details
Date posted
19 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9298-ATH-416
Job locations
Leeds General Infirmary
Great George Street
Leeds
LS1 3EX
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
2. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY
To provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to adult patients, across all sites and sectors of care by:
a) Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy,
b) Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers,
c) Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects within the area served by the team/service
d) Working autonomously in the execution of these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Clinical:
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.
2. To formulate, develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of people under the medical services, across settings and agencies serving the patient group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, with particular reference to deliberate self-harm.
9. To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health care setting) including patients, their carers referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a more senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues
2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and the service (as agreed with the Lead Psychologist and Head of Department) up to two sessions per week.
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of doctoral trainee and graduate/ assistant psychologists.
5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate.
6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team, specialty and department operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both the service and the Lead Psychologist on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant graduate psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/specialty and Department policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research and service evaluation
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To undertake, as a major component of the post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research, and to disseminate appropriate material via presentation and publication.
3. To lead on research projects within the area served by the team/service.
4. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
5. To provide appropriate research supervision of doctoral trainees and graduate assistant psychologists.
THE LEEDS WAY VALUES
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
Patient-centred
Collaborative
Fair
Accountable
Empowered
All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.
6. WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE TRUSTS (WYAAT)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 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.
By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.
WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.
7. INFECTION CONTROL
The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions. Hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment.
8. HEALTH AND SAFETY / RISK MANAGEMENT
All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users. This includes complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident Reporting system
9. EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families. No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
10. TRAINING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
11. COMMUNICATION & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
The jobholder will liaise with Consultants and other medical, nursing or allied health professional staff across the organisation. They will also liaise with the Lead Clinical Psychologist, other Clinical Psychologists working in the department, members of the psychology team and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a patients care.
Job responsibilities
2. JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY
To provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to adult patients, across all sites and sectors of care by:
a) Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy,
b) Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers,
c) Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects within the area served by the team/service
d) Working autonomously in the execution of these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Clinical:
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.
2. To formulate, develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of people under the medical services, across settings and agencies serving the patient group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, with particular reference to deliberate self-harm.
9. To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health care setting) including patients, their carers referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a more senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues
2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and the service (as agreed with the Lead Psychologist and Head of Department) up to two sessions per week.
3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of doctoral trainee and graduate/ assistant psychologists.
5. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate.
6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team, specialty and department operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
2. To advise both the service and the Lead Psychologist on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
3. To manage the workloads of assistant graduate psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/specialty and Department policies and procedures.
4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research and service evaluation
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
2. To undertake, as a major component of the post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research, and to disseminate appropriate material via presentation and publication.
3. To lead on research projects within the area served by the team/service.
4. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
5. To provide appropriate research supervision of doctoral trainees and graduate assistant psychologists.
THE LEEDS WAY VALUES
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
Patient-centred
Collaborative
Fair
Accountable
Empowered
All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.
6. WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE TRUSTS (WYAAT)
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 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.
By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.
WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.
7. INFECTION CONTROL
The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions. Hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment.
8. HEALTH AND SAFETY / RISK MANAGEMENT
All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users. This includes complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident Reporting system
9. EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families. No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
10. TRAINING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
11. COMMUNICATION & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
The jobholder will liaise with Consultants and other medical, nursing or allied health professional staff across the organisation. They will also liaise with the Lead Clinical Psychologist, other Clinical Psychologists working in the department, members of the psychology team and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a patients care.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills and behaviours
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills and behaviours
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
Leeds General Infirmary
Great George Street
Leeds
LS1 3EX
Employer's website
https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
Leeds General Infirmary
Great George Street
Leeds
LS1 3EX
Employer's website
https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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