Job summary We are seeking to recruit a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide professional and clinical leadership to the Long Term Conditions Service in South Cumbria.
Applicants need to support key principles of compassionate leadership, psychological safety and demonstrate a commitment to support staff wellbeing and high quality patient care.
The Department offers specialist psychological input across Cumbria to patients with physical health problems.
The Health Psychology service aims to promote psychological well being for patients with LTC's, for example COPD, coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer and palliative care.
This post holder will take the lead in the ongoing development of this comprehensive pathway in South Cumbria built on a biopsychosocial model.
The pathway will work across secondary and primary care.
Main duties of the job We are offer a range of care and a wide range of therapeutic modalities including ACT , EMDR and CFT.
This service focuses on the nurturing and growth of both staff and service users.There will be an emphasis upon interpersonal skills to form a compassion focused approach to leadership and team working.
This will be an essential part of working collaboratively with operational management and other senior clinical colleagues to develop the offer of psychological services within teams and to lead on providing outcomes on psychology service delivery.This strong focus upon interpersonal skills will also form a fundamental part of providing the supervision and professional leadership to psychology and wider MDT staff.Please see the attached job description and person spec for full details of required roles and responsibilities.Lower grades may be considered with suitable experience.
Job descriptions for band 8c & band b are attached.
About us At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria.
The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time': Being a clinically led organisation Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust A positive patient experience every time A great place to work Managing our money well As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030.
All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Job description Job responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
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