Working within the specialist weight management service you will be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering evidence based intervention to people living with obesity across Northumberland and North Tyneside localities.
You will work alongside dietitians, physical activity providers and pharmacist and medic within a health behaviour change service to offer direct clinical assessment and intervention as well as MDT working.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
- To provide high quality, effective applied psychology services to the Health Psychology services
- To provide effective psychological assessment and interventions (including 1:1 and group) to the patients of the service.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to trust policies.
- To undertake R&D activities for audit, policy and service development in conjunction with service leads.
- Supervises and supports the clinical activities of assistants and trainees in CHP.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across Organisational boundaries.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Including but not limited to the following:
Providing educational groups and seminars.
Undertaking assessments relating to adaptations and additional needs to support service users
Providing psychological triage and assessment.
Providing 1:1 therapeutic intervention relating to weight management
Providing psychological group intervention
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to trust policies.
To undertake R&D activities for audit, policy and service development in conjunction with service leads.
Supervise and support the clinical activities of assistants and trainees in CHP.
