Senior Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £50,952.00 to £57,349.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £50952.00 - £57349.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS14 6UH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9173-24-0304 |
Summary
As a Senior Psychologist in a multi-disciplinary service, you will be responsible for providing high quality evidence-based, specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for service users. Having an interest and in, as well as the skills to support professional colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work with service users presenting with complex and severe mental health problems will be a key part of this role. You will offer advice and consultation on service users psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, other agencies, non - professional carers, and communities. You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service line policies and procedures. We believe in the value of supervision; you will be responsible for providing supervision to Trainee and Assistant Psychologists, where appropriate, as well as providing consultation and advice to members of the MDT and other professionals supporting service users. You will also engage in your own supervision and CPD activities. You will utilise research skills for audit, service development, evaluation, and research within the service area, as well as contributing to psychological aspects of service development in service areas of primary responsibility. The team is based at the Newsam Centre in Leeds. Travel will be required across the West Yorkshire Area, with some travel to out of area hospitals outside of the West Yorkshire Footprint as part of assessment and engagement. Flexible working hours can be discussed and as the role is regionwide, there would be combined direct and remote working to optimise both clinical delivery and staff wellbeing. This would include agile working with opportunities to work from different locations across the region. Further information about CREST is available via Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust -CREST (leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk), and to discuss the post please contact Dr Zoe McAndrews, Principal Clinical Psychologist. Informal discussions about the role are most welcome. We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. Our Psychological Professions Strategy outlines our vision. We are proud that 100% of LYPFT psychological professionals recently surveyed reported they felt supported by colleagues.