Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist in Renal Medicine

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist in Renal Medicine

Employer Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Location London Salary £66,718 to £76,271 per annum inclusive of HCAS Closing date 29 May 2024

Would you like to join our integrated and highly valued renal health and counselling psychology team? Our current psychologist is emigrating and we're looking for someone to support the delivery of our renal psychology service in a manner consistent with the World Class Care values and objectives of our Royal Free Hospital Trust.

You will provide clinical health psychology input to inpatients and outpatients with kidney disease, providing highly specialist psychological kidney transplant and donor assessments, formulation and treatments, complex risk assessments and consultation on patients' psychological care. You will deliver this to non-psychologist colleagues whilst working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

This post is cross-site and the post-holder will be based at the Royal Free Hospital but is required to travel to Edgware and Barnet dialysis units.

Main duties of the job

You will clinically support new and ongoing renal department initiatives and wider renal multi-disciplinary teams to deliver integrated care, including consultation and training concerning psychological aspects of patient care and management along patient pathways, and ensure that psychological aspects are addressed in audit, research and service development.

You will offer psychoeducation interventions to support the prevention and reduction in kidney disease progression in addition to psychologically-informed teaching and training to renal nursing, medical and other multidisciplinary teams and contribute to the wider activities and supervision responsibilities of the trust's Psychological Therapists, Neuropsychologists and Counsellors' (PTNC) group.

You will demonstrate and deliver trauma informed practice and support renal nursing and medical staff to provide excellent patient care through reflective practice and psychological teaching to promote the identification and recognition of psychological distress in patients with kidney disease.

About us

As a clinician you will be embedded within your clinical speciality and also belong to a group of over 40 psychological therapies, neuropsychology and counselling (PTNC) staff who work within a variety of medical specialities. These include Cancer & Palliative Care, Cardiology, Dermatology, Diabetes, Elderly Care, Hepatology, Haemophilia, HIV, ICU, Immunology and Rare Disease, Nephrology, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Respiratory, and Women's Health.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide expertise in a highly specialist clinical area in accordance with a job plan that contributes to the assessment and treatment of patients referred to the RHCP service from the renal dialysis, transplantation, low clearance (advanced kidney care), renal inpatient, and other renal sub-specialties.

To provide highly specialist, culturally sensitive biopsychosocial assessments, clinical health formulation and routine transplant assessments of patients with renal disease, co-morbid physical health conditions and associated psychological distress.

To provide psychological reports, including relevant clinical health psychology formulation, opinion and evidence-based interventions in order to inform referrers, wider MDT members and patients, where appropriate.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in Health, Counselling / Clinical psychology (or the equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence
  • HCPC registration and eligibility for Chartered Practitioner Health, Counselling or Clinical Psychologist status
  • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice
  • Recognised training / qualification in delivering clinical supervision

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients outpatient and inpatient settings
  • Experience as a Practitioner Health or Counselling / Clinical psychologist working in a specialist acute medical field with patients with complex medical and psychosocial presentations
  • Evidence of post-qualification supervised clinical experience in therapeutic interventions and management of patients/clients in acute hospital settings
  • Significant post-qualification experience of working with and contributing to interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments
  • Experience of implementing theory driven behaviour-change interventions with patients in a medical setting
  • Experience of delivering one-to-one clinical supervision to psychologists / psychological therapists
  • Experience of teaching, training other qualified Health, Counselling or Clinical Psychologists and those from other professional disciplines
  • Post-qualification experience of management and leadership
  • Experience in the effective application of psychological interventions with culturally diverse patient groups

Desirable

  • Experience of applying psychological principles in the delivery of reflective practice groups (or similar) to staff groups to support team function
  • Post-qualification experience in designing and delivering research / quality or service improvement projects in medical settings
  • Experience of contributing to local and / or national programmes of work external to your own organization

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Free Hospital

Pond Street

London

NW3 2QG

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