Clinical Psychologist

As the leading agency in Psychological Therapies recruitment, Pulse is inundated with requests for mental health professionals.

Pulse is seeking a band 8a Clinical Psychologist to join a dynamic neuro rehab team based within our Private Sector service in London. This position is available to start as soon as possible, offering full-time hours each week in a locum role.

The Clinical Psychologist in the post will work in a highly specialist Neuropsychology service for adults with acquired and long-term neurological conditions. The post holder will provide clinical psychology input to service users with acquired brain injury/neurological conditions.

We are seeking principal practitioner psychologists to fill two Clinical Lead posts within the Support and Safeguarding Team. The post holders will provide expert clinical consultation and guidance on trauma-informed engagement across the Inquiry. There are two full-time clinical lead roles available and we are open to considering a job share or secondment arrangement. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join an inclusive, innovative team where you will be supported to challenge yourself in a unique context. The team encourages working in a flexible, collaborative manner to learn and support each other as we look to undertake one of the broadest, most publicly anticipated inquiries in UK history.

Conflicts of interest : Please note that candidates invited to interview will be invited to declare any actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interests which could affect the independence of the Inquiry, in confidence, to the senior recruiting manager. This may include current or prior work undertaken on the COVID-19 pandemic response. Decisions on any potential conflict of interest will be made before an appointment to the role is confirmed.

Job description:
The multidisciplinary Support and Safeguarding Team is responsible for ensuring the Inquiry delivers its functions in a safe and trauma-informed way. As a senior member of the team, reporting directly to the Chief Psychologist, the post holders will lead on the implementation of the Inquiry’s trauma-informed strategy. The role will involve providing consultation, training and advice to non-clinical colleagues and promoting and embedding trauma-informed practise across the Inquiry. The Inquiry is progressing at pace and is high profile; the postholders will therefore need to be able to adopt flexible approaches to providing quality advice and do so in tight timeframes. Essential for these roles is the ability to adapt to the unique context of working within a public inquiry; experience of working in non-healthcare settings will be an advantage. The postholders will have distinct workstreams allocated to them and will manage the work of other more junior clinicians. The workstreams the postholders will contribute to include: public hearings and investigations

The Support and Safeguarding team are comprised psychologists, social workers, counsellors and specialist civil servants. It holds a wide and varied workload of clinical and project work. The clinicians oversee the provision of emotional support to witnesses, members of the public who engage with the Inquiry and our staff. They also advise Inquiry staff on how to work in a trauma-informed way through training, case consultations, policy contributions and direct involvement in projects. The Head of Safeguarding within the team is responsible for safeguarding practise across the organisation including the duty safeguarding service. The team’s work is underpinned by the following values: safety, empowerment, collaboration.

This team sits within the Inquiry’s Programme and Operations Directorate in the Inquiry Secretariat, but works across the entire organisation. The Directorate covers a range of corporate functions including HR, finance and commercial, information management, data protection, governance and planning and delivery. It sits alongside the Policy, Research, Analysis and Legal Operations Directorate, the Communications and Engagement Directorate and the Inquiry's legal team.

• Responsibilities in the role will include:   Providing trauma-informed consultation, training and advice to colleagues, verbally and via written papers and policies
  ?    Designing bespoke trauma-informed models of emotional support for engagement activities with the public
  ?    Line management to other members of the team 
  ?   Clinical supervision 
  ?    Contributing to clinical governance and quality assurance activities within the team
  ?    Acting as duty safeguarding officer on a monthly basis, providing safeguarding advice to Inquiry staff and contractors, in line with our policy and procedures.  
  ?    Depending upon the portfolio of work assigned to your role, based upon your skills and experiences:
  ?   Oversight of the emotional support provided to members of the public and investigation witnesses through close liaison with our contract manager and the suppliers of the support. 
  ?    Contributing to the Inquiry’s staff well-being strategy and activities by providing clinical expertise and direction, training opportunities and promotion of well-being. Clinical oversight of the emotional support provided through a contract with a specialist supplier. 
  ?    Contributing to the Inquiry’s strategy and engagement in relation to children and young people, including oversight of research projects that target children and young people.
  ?    Liaison with the Inquiry’s research team to ensure research projects are trauma-informed
  ?   Liaison with the Inquiry’s media and communications team to ensure a trauma-informed approach to the team’s work

If you are an empathetic Clinical Psychologist looking to make a positive change to patients with neurological conditions, then please apply today or contact our team for more information.

• Daily payroll
• Variety of work opportunities in NHS and private sectors
• Expand your skill set more quickly
• Flexible hours of work

• Online interviews via HireVue
• First class support and advice from our specialist consultant teams
• iPoint – Electronic Timesheet smartphone app
• Streamlined compliance process, utilising new online technology
• Access to high-quality voluntary training
• £300 Recommend a Friend bonus scheme*

*Terms and conditions

If you are registered with Pulse and recommend a friend to us, you can earn £300 per recommendation once they have worked over 200 hours*.

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