Working for Berkshire Healthcare

Job overview

If you are an HCPC registered Clinical Health Psychologist looking to secure your next role why not apply to join us in our CQC rated ‘Outstanding’ Trust within our Clinical Health Psychology Service (CHPS). The CHPS service is a dynamic and friendly team which offers weekly support and CPD opportunities for all psychologists. We are passionate about delivering high quality care across long term and life limiting illness and developing innovative ways of service delivery. CHPS provides specialist psychological input in a variety of physical health areas including diabetes, pain management, cancer, ICU, CFS/ME and gastroenterology.

By making this one application you will be able to indicate the team/s you are interested to work in. We will then aim to contact you within 2 working days, to either set you up with an interview at the earliest opportunity or to discuss your desired role so we can contact you when that position becomes available.

We are happy to consider applications for a band 7 preceptorship role. The successful candidate will be supported via a preceptorship process to progress from a Band 7 to a Band 8a over a period of 18- 24 months dependent on experience & attainment of the needed competencies.

There are opportunities for hybrid working arrangements and some onsite work will be required.

We currently have vacancies in:

Weight Management

Haematology/ Cancer Care

Gastroenterology

Please see below for details of the job roles we have available

Main duties of the job

Highly Specialist Clinical Health Psychologist band 8b – Weight Management, Lead – 0.4 WTE

An experienced and motivated clinical or counselling health psychologist to lead and develop a team of psychologists delivering input to weight management services in Berkshire.  The role requires innovative thinking in providing support to patients and an understanding of the service framework required to deliver this effectively.

Highly Specialist Clinical Health Psychologist band 8a – Weight Management – 0.6 WTE

Working alongside other psychologists, consultant surgeons and physicians, dietitians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the preparation for, and management of, bariatric surgery. You will be encouraged to contribute to the development of services. They will provide clinical supervision for an assistant psychologist, as required and input to individual and group programmes, both pre- and post- surgery.

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist band 8a - Haematology / Cancer Care - 0.5 WTE or Gastroenterology - 0.3 WTE

You will join a wider Clinical Health Psychology Service (CHPS), which is comprised of 14 qualified psychologists, 3 assistant psychologists, trainees and an administrator. CHPS provides specialist psychological input in a variety of physical health areas including diabetes, pain management, cancer, ICU, CFS/ME and gastroenterology.

Working for our organisation

Some of the benefits of joining our team:  

• AfC Salary based on experience and role
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell leave
• Generous NHS pension scheme 20.68% employer contribution
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• Advanced IT enablement
• Cycle to Work and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants via the Blue Light Card Staff
• networks for race, diversity, disabilities and more to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave and access to our three staff nurseries

Berkshire Healthcare has a record of achievement and success that places us as one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We are rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC, we have a history of strong financial performance, and we have a highly skilled and engaged workforce. We aspire to be an outstanding organisation for everyone: our people, our patients, their families, and their carers. For our people who work here that means we want Berkshire Healthcare to be a great place to work where everyone can thrive and grow. 

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

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