Candidates should be passionate, proactive, and capable of navigating the demands of a rewarding work environment. The role involves providing psychological assessment and therapy, supervising assistant psychologists and trainees, consulting with multidisciplinary teams, and engaging in service development and research initiatives. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential for effectively serving a diverse population and collaborating within the healthcare community. The position offers the chance to make a significant impact on patient care in HIV and Sexual Health Psychology.
Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist interested in HIV and Sexual Health Psychology? We are recruiting to two roles within our well-established and respected HIV and Sexual Health team that provides specialist psychological services to patients and staff of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. This team sits within a diverse and supportive Clinical Health Psychology service.
As part of our commitment to address inequalities in healthcare, we are particularly keen to hear from applicants with lived experience relevant to the diverse communities we work with, and from those with particular skills in understanding and promoting anti-discrimination associated with protected characteristics. The Trust has the following active Staff Networks: BAME Staff Network, Disabled Employees Network (DEN+), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Staff Network (LGBT+), Carers at Work Network, Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues Stigma Transformation (LEMHIST) Network and Women's Network. The post-holder will be supported to access and contribute to the work of these networks as a member or ally.
We are looking for passionate, committed and pro-active Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who are ableto manage the challenges of working in an environment which can be demanding, as well as hugely rewarding. We prioritise collaboration within our immediate team, with the MDTs with which we work, and with the wider sexual health and HIV community. We are thereforehoping to find candidates who have the required communication and interpersonal skills that willallow them to thrive when working across all these relationships in order to provide a meaningful service to the diverse populations we serve.Our team demonstrate an interest in providing a high level of service for service users and carersas well as an interest in service development.You will join a friendly, highly experienced and supportive team of clinicians, with opportunities to offer specialist psychological assessment and therapy to individuals and groups; provide supervision to assistant psychologists, trainee clinical / counselling psychologists, and other health professionals; consult with service users and our MDT colleagues; work autonomously within professional guidelines and adhering to the team's policies and procedures; and conduct audit, service improvement initiatives and research within the field, including developing innovative ways of working to enhance patients' access to, experience of and outcomes from HIV and Sexual Health Psychology.
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We are recruiting to two roles within our well-established and respected HIV and Sexual Health team that provides specialist psychological services to patients and staff of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. This team sits within a diverse and supportive Clinical Health Psychology service. For more details, please see attached document for full Job Description and Person Specification
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