Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist
The closing date is 06 November 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) team as a full-time Band 7 HCPC/BABCP accredited Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist or High intensity CBT Therapist/Psychological Therapist. The post-holder will work across health specialties providing psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to support patients presenting with a diagnosed physical health condition. The role will also involve the delivery of indirect interventions with health and social care professionals, including psychological consultation, supervision and training, as well as opportunities to contribute to wider service development.
This post can offer experience in working in a range of health specialties including outpatient Adult General Health and Psycho-oncology, as well as hospital Inpatient services.
Main duties of the job
* To enhance psychologically informed care through the direct delivery of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence based psychological interventions to adults with physical health difficulties and potentially their carers/families. And indirectly through providing interventions such as teaching, training and consultation with multi-disciplinary teams and non-psychologically trained practitioners.
* The role may be based across a number of sites in the acute and community setting as well as some home working. The main CHP base is at Torbay Hospital.
* To work autonomously, within the Trust's and the HCPC's and the BABCPS's professional guidelines, as well as liaise and work closely with colleagues and other staff who work internally and externally to the Trust.
About us
We are a progressive service and are passionate about utilising psychological theory and techniques effectively to support patients living with a physical health condition. There are a mix of psychological professions in the team, supported by a dedicated administrative team, and we welcome individuals who are keen to embrace the strengths that this brings to our working and professional identity. The team are trained in CBT, ACT, EMDR, and Compassion‑focused Therapy and there is a strong commitment to both evidence and practice based interventions.
We pride ourselves on our flexibility of working practices and our family first approach to working which allow staff to maintain healthy work‑life boundaries. Our commitment to this approach includes agile working, combining remote and face‑to‑face interactions.
Job responsibilities
Communication and working relationships
Maintain effective communication in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, and build effective working relationships with a range of health and social care staff across all levels, both within and outside of the organisation.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure that any correspondence is of a high standard.
Provide excellent, professional communication and care when representing our service.
To liaise and work collaboratively with colleagues within the department. To be respectful and value the people you work with.
To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive or contentious condition specific information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients, where there may be barriers to acceptance and within highly emotive environments.
To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers to ensure co‑ordination of work in the Clinical Health Psychology service.
Planning and organisation
Under guidance from supervisor or line manager be able to plan and organise daily workload.
Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills to meet an ever‑changing workload.
Be responsive to change and able to work in an environment which has constant interruptions.
Help to plan and organise any teaching/training, seminars, workshops under the direction of service lead.
Analytical and judgement
To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni‑ and multi‑disciplinary care.
To make skilled and complex assessments, formulations and decisions about treatment options considering a range of options which draw on both theoretical and therapeutic models.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To provide clinical consultation to other health and social care staff and foster reflective practice in teams.
Responsibility and Accountability
Act with integrity and professionalism, ensuring that you are demonstrating responsible behaviours at all times, in accordance with our Trust values.
To be accountable for own professional actions and to fully observe the BPS (2009) Code of Conduct/BABCP guidelines and the DCP Generic Professional Practice Guidelines (2008). To reflect and learn from our mistakes.
Be responsible for your dedicated workload.
To make highly skilled assessments and decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients health problem, employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Psychological interventions may be for individuals, carers, families and groups.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To provide psychological consultation to staff working with this client group within health, education and social services, both at a policy and individual client level.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
Ensure that all work is of a high standard and meets regulatory compliance.
To provide clinical consultation to other health and social care staff.
To observe the requirements of government legislation, local and national policies and associated initiatives.
Responsibility for Patients and Client Care
To make highly skilled assessments, formulations and decisions about treatment options and individualised programs of care considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
Policy and service responsibility
To participate in developments within the services, the wider organisation and community to facilitate the appropriate provision of services.
To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit.
All staff have a responsibility to ensure that the needs of the service are met in a timely and efficient manner.
Encourage and welcome feedback to ensure that we as individuals, and as a collective team, learn and continually improve.
Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources
Everyone has a responsibility to ensure effective and conservative use of resources.
Maintain paperless filing wherever possible (excluding where any statutory duty may exist). Do not print/ photocopy unless necessary.
Ensure conservative use of stationery, not using equipment to excess.
Ensure that any stationery or resource needs are reported to the appropriate person for future orders.
Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management
To assist in assessing and evaluating trainees skills and competences.
Where applicable and qualified to do so to supervise the work of less experienced members of the Clinical Health Psychology team.
To provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychological care.
To receive supervision from an experienced Clinician in the Clinical Health Psychology Team.
To provide teaching to the local Clinical Psychology/ IAPT training courses as appropriate.
Work flexibly to ensure the department collectively achieves its goals.
Work with colleagues, seeking or offering support as required.
To develop leadership skills through the organisation training.
Information Technology and administrative duties
To ensure information governance is adhered to in all aspects of your work.
To ensure you are adhering to GDPR regulations/Data Protection Act 2018.
To be proficient in use of trust IT systems.
To keep up to date with patient related admin (e.g. patient records and letters) and be able to co‑ordinate and communicate well with the admin team.
Responsibility for Research and Development
To contribute as appropriate to service evaluation, research and audit.
Person Specification
* Current registration
* Experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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