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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.

Job overview

12 Month Fixed Term

We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed graduate psychologists with a good honours degree.

This is an opportunity to work in a vibrant and friendly department, providing psychological assessment, interventions and consultation for patients under the supervision of a consultant psychologist.

You will work within the Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Salford Royal and will benefit from a supportive team of colleagues, including four consultant clinical/counselling psychologists, as well as clinical psychologists, health psychologists and CBT therapists.

It is essential that you have good interpersonal and communication skills and excellent computer and database skills. Experience of working in clinical health psychology is desirable.

You should have the ability to work closely with medical colleagues and members of various other disciplines, and have experience of multi-disciplinary team work.

Main duties of the job

• Work with patients suffering from a range of medical/surgical conditions as part of the clinical health psychology team
• A range of activities including providing psychological therapy for patients, co-facilitating psycho-educational groups, data analysis, literature reviews, data collection and audit.

Please note we may close this position early once a sufficient number of applications are received.

Working for our organisation

Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.