Principal Psychologist
| Posting date: | 05 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6QG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9232-25-0157 |
Summary
The post holder will be responsible, with the support of the strategic and clinical lead and Consultant Psychologist within critical care and health psychology (NSCHCT), for providing highly skilled psychology service in the specialist areas of critical care at UHNM. This will include services in the following areas: 1) ACCU Inpatients 2) Follow up on the wards at UHNM 3) Out-patient clinic for community follow-up 4) Staff-wellbeing 5) Family/ carer support The key duties of the role will be: To provide expertise in the highly specialist clinical area of intensive care and to deliver high quality psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for patients and their families, within the critical care services of UHNM To contribute to the design, planning, delivery & evaluation of a psychological service for patients on the ACCU pathway, from Critical Care in-patients, ward follow-up at UHNM, and a prospective out-patients clinic. To contribute to the delivery of a 7 day psychological service for critical care patients To deliver direct/ indirect psychological support for the family/ carers of ACCU patients. To hold clinical and managerial responsibility for junior psychologists in the delivery of highly specialist psychological services. To provide clinical leadership to psychology staff to provide psychological interventions for complex and contentious co-morbid physical and mental health conditions in ITU which may include challenging behaviours and possible risk of physical aggression To provide clinical supervision and training to junior colleagues within the designated psychology service and to staff external to the team To undertake formal research as a major part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees To engage in continual service improvement within own area