(Senior) Clinical Psychologist

Job Summary

We are looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a), 1.0 WTE, to join us in providing specialist clinical psychology services to adults and children admitted following major trauma at Leeds General Infirmary. The post holder would offer inpatient psychological assessment and intervention, supporting adjustment, rehabilitation and hospital discharge alongside the Major Trauma MDT. The post would cover both MTC patients at Leeds General Infirmary and St James’s University Hospital. The role would also include psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for outpatients following major trauma. This is a permanent post, open to existing Band 8a clinical psychologists and Band 7 clinical psychologists with post-qualification experience of working in physical health settings. For applicants appointed at Band 7, support would be provided within the role to progress to Band 8a via an established preceptorship programme.

The post is part of the Major Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery psychology team. The post holder would be expected to attend team meetings, which are held on Wednesdays, at least once a month. At Band 8a level, the post holder would offer supervision to early career psychologists, as appropriate to the role and WTE.

We hope to recruit and retain staff by offering a wide range of clinical experiences and supervision. We support people to develop their clinical and leadership skills.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust provides a range of high profile and expert clinical services which include major trauma, neurorehabilitation and cancer centres. It is an ambitious Trust with core values of empowerment, fairness, collaboration, accountability and patient-centred care. It is in this context that the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology has flourished over the past decade. The Department now has over 60 clinicians organised in consultant-led teams. We are a friendly department with a good team spirit who value balancing our work and home life. We encourage flexible working which can, for example, include compression of working hours. The Trust has a range of excellent staff benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (including car leasing and cycle-to-work schemes) and on-site facilities.

Being part of a large teaching hospitals Trust, the Department of Clinical Health Psychology is academically ambitious with strong links to the regional clinical training programme, and schools of psychology, medicine and healthcare at the University of Leeds. There are opportunities for research, service-evaluation, audit, teaching and delivering supervision.

Supervision, funded CPD and training will be built into your job as our priority is to train and retain your skills and create opportunities for you to progress into more senior roles, without having to look to other employers to progress. We all have annual job plan reviews which align with our own appraisals and ambitions.