Opportunity to work in an innovative and multidisciplinary team within a prominent NHS Trust, contributing to essential services such as HIV and sexual health.
The role includes leadership opportunities, allowing for professional growth and development in providing specialized psychological support.
Engagement in meaningful projects like the Female Sexual Wellbeing Service and My Body Back Project, which support vulnerable populations and promote sexual health.
Access to continuous professional development (CPD) and opportunities to teach and supervise clinical psychology and psychosexual therapy trainees.
The chance to participate in audit, research, and service development, enhancing clinical practices and contributing to advancements in psychosexual counseling.
A supportive working environment that values inclusion, belonging, and the personal development of staff, aligning with the WeCare values of Barts Health NHS Trust.
Flexibility in work arrangements, including a mix of remote and onsite patient-facing work, catering to different working styles and personal needs.
Are you a passionate and dedicated Clinical Psychologist looking to make a meaningful impact in the lives of women? Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist to join our dynamic Psychology Service in Infection & Immunity. You’ll have the unique opportunity to provide psychological support for patients at our three HIV clinics in East London, with a particular focus on our pioneering Female Sexual Wellbeing Service. Here, you will lead joint clinics with medical professionals to help women facing genito-pelvic pain and deliver vital psycho-educational workshops aimed at enhancing sexual wellbeing.
In addition, you’ll play a crucial role in the My Body Back Project, offering compassionate support to women with histories of sexual assault—helping them navigate essential healthcare services. At Barts Health, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and supportive team environment, complete with excellent professional development opportunities and access to an array of resources for research and teaching. If you’re ready to be part of an outstanding NHS trust that values inclusion and compassionate care, we would love to hear from you. Join us in our mission to redefine excellence in healthcare. For a friendly chat about the role, please reach out to Stuart Gibson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, at stuart.gibson5@nhs.net.
Opportunity to work in an innovative and multidisciplinary team within a prominent NHS Trust, contributing to essential services such as HIV and sexual health.
The role includes leadership opportunities, allowing for professional growth and development in providing specialized psychological support.
Engagement in meaningful projects like the Female Sexual Wellbeing Service and My Body Back Project, which support vulnerable populations and promote sexual health.
Access to continuous professional development (CPD) and opportunities to teach and supervise clinical psychology and psychosexual therapy trainees.
The chance to participate in audit, research, and service development, enhancing clinical practices and contributing to advancements in psychosexual counseling.
A supportive working environment that values inclusion, belonging, and the personal development of staff, aligning with the WeCare values of Barts Health NHS Trust.
Flexibility in work arrangements, including a mix of remote and onsite patient-facing work, catering to different working styles and personal needs.
Applications are invited to join the Psychology Service in Infection & Immunity at Barts Health NHS Trust.
We would like to recruit an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist who has specialist interests and skills in psychology as applied to HIV and sexual health. The primary purpose of the post is to provide assessmsent, consultation and psychological support to patients from our three HIV clinics across East London.
However, the successful applicant will also take a leadership role in providing specialist psychological support to the Female Sexual Wellbeing Service, an innovative service that involves joint assessment clinics with medical consultants in assessing women who have genito-pelvic pain (pain associated with penetrative sex). Contributing to psycho-educational workshops to promote sexual wellbeing for women will also be expected.
The post also involves the provision of specialist psychological support to My Body Back Project, an innovative service that assists women who have a history of sexual assault to access cervical screening, STI checks, coil fittings and removals.
The Psychology Service enjoys good close working relationships with the multi-disciplinary teams in Infection & Immunity. We are an energetic and supportive team offering excellent professional support, supervision and CPD. There is a wealth of specialist clinical expertise, and the service has an active audit, research and teaching programme.
This post involves the provision of specialist psychological support to patients from Infection & Immunity at Barts Health from across East London. This work will involve both HIV and sexual health services at Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. Clinical provision will consist of psychological assessments and psychological therapy, in addition to psycho-educational workshops. Some amount of remote working will be expected, as well as onsite patient-facing work at Royal London Hospital.
The primary purpose of this post is to provide psychological support to patients from our three HIV clinics across the Trust. However, the post also involves working in our sexual health and psychosexual services.
The post holder will also contribute to our multi-disciplinary staff teaching programme to promote psychosocial knowledge and skills in responding to the psychosocial needs of our service users. The post holder will also provide supervision to clinical psychology doctorate trainees and or psychosexual therapy trainees.
The post holder will also contribute to audit, research and service development. The post holder will further the practice of psychosexual counselling, by assisting in service development, audit/evaluation and clinical governance.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stuart Gibson Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address:
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