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Job overview

We are delighted to offer this new permanent post for a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist for a split post working into the Staff Psychology and Bariatric Surgery services. The successful candidate will join a rapidly expanding Clinical Health Psychology Department within Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT).

This post is for a total of 0.6 WTE, with 0.4 WTE in Staff Psychology and 0.2 WTE in Bariatric Surgery.

There is potential for the post to be combined with other hours available in the Clinical Health Psychology department if desired.

To meet the needs of the services, we hope that a candidate could work Thursdays plus either Wednesday or Fridays as part of their working days.

Clinical and professional supervision will be provided by the Principal Clinical Psychologists who are clinical leads for the relevant services.

Interviews are planned to be held in-person on 15th May 2025

Main duties of the job

Staff Psychology – This post will involve providing psychological services to the workforce of an acute hospital trust. You will be joining an existing team at an exciting time of service development. The service has recently concluded a pilot phase of new staff support services like group debriefing and are looking to now consolidate and embed these services across the trust.

Experience of delivering group interventions and/or psychological education and training would be desirable.

Bariatric Surgery - This post involves psychological assessment and therapeutic input to patients preparing for and adjusting to bariatric surgery. Experience of working with adults with complex mental health problems is key and experience in bariatric surgery or weight management services is desirable. You will be joining an existing service based within a multidisciplinary team which greatly values and welcomes psychological input.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the Staff Psychology Service (0.4 WTE), the successful candidate will play a valuable role in an existing team to refine and further embed a post-incident group debriefing service into the Trust's staff support offer. The successful candidate will provide clinical oversight of the service which is delivered by multi-disciplinary colleagues and provide reflective practice to these colleagues.  Another dimension of the role will be to engage the workforce in recently developed interventions, like a self-guided online resource for colleagues. The post holder will also supervise, and line manage the service Assistant Psychologist.

Within the Bariatric Surgery service (0.2 WTE), the post primarily involves the delivery of psychological care and pre-surgery psychological assessment to patients seeking and adjusting to bariatric surgery. The post-holder would be joining an existing service provided by the Principal Clinical Psychologist in the team to broaden capacity within the service. The successful candidate will liaise with specialist dietitians, nurses, surgeons and other medical staff to contribute to patient care and MDT decisions. There may be opportunities for contribution to audit, service evaluation and training.