Senior Psychologist or Psychological Therapist inMiddlesbrough inMiddlesbrough PUBLISHED 21 NOV 2024

The Medical Psychology service provides psychological assessment, support and treatment to medical patients within South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.   Within this, the long-term conditions (LTC) workstream currently provides psychology and psychological therapy to 9 services across South Tees trust, including: pain management, rheumatology, renal, CFS/ME, post-covid, Specialist Weight Management, HIV, burns and plastics, diabetes.


This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.


We are looking for a Senior Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to provide specialist clinical services, supervision and leadership within the long-term conditions workstream, alongside the Consultant Psychologist in LTC. The post holder will have responsibilities for providing leadership within specific area(s) of the workstream.

The post holder will take a lead on specific audit and service evaluation projects and will be involved in service development projects with the aim of expanding the workstream in line with national guidelines and standards. The post will also involve line management and clinical supervision of other staff.

Applicants will need to have had experience of working in one or more long-term conditions services.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions

• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner
  
  

The Leadership And Improvement Programme Aims To

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
  
  

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Lesley Armitage Job title: Consultant Counselling Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:


If you would like to have an informal discussion about the post and/or the possibilities for part time and job share within the role, please contact Dr Lesley Armitage, Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Lead for Long-Term Conditions on .