Practitioner Psychologist – Adults Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

• Provision of high-quality psychological information and advice, dissemination of specialist resources and workshops for adults, their families and staff
• Provision of psychological support, consultation and joint working with staff who are supporting the needs of adults and their families coping with the impact of their health condition.
• Therapeutic work with adults and their families through individual work, family work, and therapeutic groups.

Essential

• Honours degree in Psychology
• HCPC Registered
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, accredited by HCPC (or its equivalent accredited for those trained prior to 1996 accredited by the BPS).

Desirable

• Other related academic qualifications
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice.
• Evidence of peer-reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions.

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist experience, with experience working with people with physical health conditions.
• Has begun to develop special expertise in a relevant clinical area and to have undergone or is undergoing post qualification training in it as part of the CPD process.
• Demonstrable evidence of clinical supervision within a scientist practitioner framework, including supervision, group supervision and case presentations of both psychologists and other health professionals.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems

Desirable

• Experience of working with service users are co-producers
• To have obtained further experience of working within other Clinical Psychology Health and Mental Health specialities
• Research experience and statistical expertise.
• Academic teaching experience.

Essential

• Ability to communicate and relate to people warmly and with empathy
• Ability to understand the highly complex and conflicting messages from clients and organise this in a way that allows them to guide the client through a complex process of change. To be able to do this even when the client is highly distressed, there is a highly charged atmosphere, and/or when the client is expressing high levels of anger
• Ability to communicate sensitive material in writing.
• Ability to assess, interpret, formulate and intervene in situations where the material is highly complex, and where there are a range of possible options, where different courses of action could be taken and where expert opinions may differ.