Principal Clinical Psychologist | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative clinician to join the Department of Psychological Medicine as part of an established team working into the Level 2a Neurorehabilitation Centre in Goole (NRCG). This post is commissioned to support the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention, and support for patients on the NRCG.

The post involves providing direct and indirect psychotherapeutic interventions, and cognitive assessment and rehabilitation for people on NRCG. Multidisciplinary team working is key to this role and therefore the post also involves liaising with medical staff, nursing staff, clinical team leads and allied health professionals to support the provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service for NRCG.

We have close working links with the local training course at Hull and we regularly have trainees on placement in the department. Continual professional development of our clinicians is important and valued by the department, and therefore there are many opportunities to pursue this.

This post is suited to someone with an interest in, or experience in, working with people in specialist neurorehabilitation centres.

The post will be supervised and supported by the Principal Clinical Psychologist for NRCG, with professional oversight from the Clinical Lead for the Department of Psychological Medicine.

Please see person specification for more detailed outline of duties that will be expected for the role.

NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.