Priory Hospital, Southampton, are looking for an enthusiastic clinical or counselling psychologist to join the psychology team in delivering individual therapy, group therapies and assessments as part of delivering excellent standards of care for NHS service users requiring inpatient hospital admission.

This role could cater for someone seeking flexible working alongside another job role or other commitments, as we are looking to recruit a psychologist for 15 hours per week in a part-time permanent role.

The individual therapy delivered at our hospital is exclusively with the service users on our specialist eating disorder ward, Skylark; therefore, we are seeking a psychologist with an interest or previous experience in working with those suffering from an eating disorder.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be welcomed into a passionate and positive team of professionals, headed by a Counselling Psychologist within the psychology team, and made up of a Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Creative Arts Therapist, and an Assistant Psychologist. This team is overseen within the wider therapy services umbrella, headed by the therapy manager and Occupational Therapist, Sarah Marsh.

There will be opportunities for continuing professional development, and your passion, style and ambitions will be taken into account as you grow within the role. Particular professional development would see the candidate gaining distinct experience in working with acute distress and eating disorders, allowing for the possibility of specialism.

About us

In addition to the above, we are routinely involved in delivering carer support, assessments and written psychological formulations for the adult acute wards, facilitating training for staff, holding consults/peer supervision, and holding reflective practice sessions for staff; a candidate enthusiastic towards these aspects of delivering a psychology service for a hospital would be welcomed as they would form an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team and would sit alongside a number of other allied health professions, including occupational therapy, psychiatry, medicine, dietetics and social work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Group therapy takes place across our three wards, with groups for eating disorder difficulties, and two groups for adults on an acute admission on either our Starling or Sandpiper wards, which both serve adults with acute mental health difficulties requiring hospital admission. Experience of delivering groups deriving from CBT, DBT and/or ACT approaches would be desirable.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• The successful candidate will be an HCPC-registered practitioner psychologist.

Desirable

• Experience in outpatient or inpatient NHS services would be desirable owing to the nature of this role being NHS-facing and within an inpatient context.
• This role will be on-site, and therapies will be delivered in person.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Priory Healthcare

Address

The Priory Hospital

Marchwood Park

Marchwood

Southampton

SO40 4DA