Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term maternity cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 21 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-COR-25-7138977
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist, Staff Advice and Liaison Service
7
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist to work within the Staff Advice and Liaison Service for fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.
The role of clinical psychology within the Staff Advice and Liaison Service (SALS) at Alder Hey is a new and evolving area of specialism and has the aim of improving the health and effectiveness of the organisation and its people in a sustainable way through the application of specialist psychological and organisational knowledge and skills. Working alongside the SALS team, this role will help to further develop the psychological support offer to staff within Alder Hey. Contributing to the staff support offer at Alder Hey is a key part of the role and will include input to the ongoing development and day to day working of the Staff Advice & Liaison Service (SALS), a human-centric, psychology led listening service for all staff working in the organisation. This work will be undertaken autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures and will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the service.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological expertise to the organisation in understanding the emotional complexity of meeting healthcare needs for all staff and developing opportunities for reflective practice for all (clinical and non-clinical).
Provide psychologically focused assessments and interventions to staff on individual, group and team bases with a view to exploring and managing the emotional impact of work to increase effectiveness and wellbeing at work.
To provide specialist psychological input to the Staff Advice & Liaison Service (SALS). This will involve undertaking individual and team focused assessments based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured observations and semi-structured interviews with staff members and relevant networks.To make judgments involving highly complex facts, which require analysis and interpretation and comparison of a range of options. To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological intervention or management of psychological problems, based on an appropriate multi-factorial and multi-theoretical psychological understanding of the presenting issues and employing methods based upon current evidence-based practice, across the full range of staff support and organisational settings.
For further information please see Job Description.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users and other professional colleagues within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the British Psychological Society as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist (or in the process of).
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to mental health.
- Knowledge of and interest in the application of psychological theory to understanding the emotional impact of work in healthcare or other public sector settings
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology and/or other fields of applied psychology
- A passion for supporting staff to thrive and reach their potential, enabling them to deliver the best possible clinical care.
- Experience of working within a multi- cultural framework.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jeanette Chamberlain
- Job title
- Staff Advice and Liaison Service, Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01512824511
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