Preceptorship or in Medical Psychology

Preceptorship or 8a role in Medical Psychology

This is an exciting opportunity to take on an 8a role or a band 7 preceptorship, offering some generic work within medical psychology, work within the pain team and a session a week working with the severe asthma team. The role will allow the candidate to gain both generic and specialist skills within medical psychology, with the work ranging from complex assessments, interventions to consultation and close MDT working.

We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated clinical psychologists to join our well-established Department of Medical Psychology. The department is friendly, supportive, and flexible. The team includes clinical and counselling psychologists, trainees, assistants, and excellent admin/clerical support. We place great emphasis on supervision and personal development, which is possible through working within a psychology department. We meet regularly for case presentations, clinical governance, and business meetings.

We also have a monthly peer group meeting and regular time-out to enable reflection and service development.

We have a team base at Leicester General Hospital, although also work at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital. Leicester is a thriving multi‑cultural city with good arts and sporting facilities that enjoys excellent motorway links to other major cities and easy access to the surrounding countryside.

In the General Medical role there is the opportunity to work with a team of psychologists offering complex assessments, one‑to‑one intervention and groups to patients referred by multiple teams within UHL (including diabetes, cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology and neurology).

The team is also developing ways to support staff within UHL to offer level 2 psychological support for patients, which the successful applicant can become involved with. There is also the opportunity to support the pain team.

This team offers input to the UHL pain management programme, assessments of individual patients and some one‑to‑one work, as well as a group to support patients in coping with pain. With high demand in this area the team is working to find creative ways to support patients and so there will also be new developments in this area. The asthma role involves working with the medical MDT to support patients with severe asthma.

This includes attending and MDT meetings, sign‑posting patients to appropriate services, as well as offering assessments and interventions.

As a relatively new service there is also scope for service development in the future, exploring how to support the medical team to understand the psychological needs of their patients.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment.

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6‑month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. All jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual.

This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

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.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust