Consultant Clinical Psychologist

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Employer Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Location Carshalton Salary £75,853 to £86,574 a year pa pro rata incl HCAS (outer) Closing date 9 May 2024

This post will provide leadership, development, management and clinical expertise to the paediatric service at Epsom and St Helier. The post holder will be responsible for leading the paediatric psychology provision within the Trust and liaise closely with the Trust lead for psychology, the paediatric consultants and divisional management.

Main duties of the job

To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality psychology service based on current evidence based guidelines to children and families with psychological difficulties relating to physical/medical health conditions within a paediatric service.

To work autonomously, within professional guidelines, and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of the paediatric psychology service. As a major requirement of the job, act as a highly specialized resource to the paediatric psychology and medical team.

To develop, propose and implement policy and service development changes within the paediatric service to continually improve the service and manage demand and capacity.

To lead on planning and developing the service within SW London and Surrey including liaising with local service developers, development of business plans, leading on recruitment and ensuring appropriate mechanisms of support and supervision are in place for multi-disciplinary team members recruited within the service/sector for which the post holder has designated professional responsibility.

To ensure that service continues to offer evidenced based intervention in line with other services nationally.

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust offers an extensive range of services to the people of southwest London and northeast Surrey, including Sutton, Merton and Epsom.

Queen Mary's Hospital for Children is a dedicated hospital for children at St Helier's Hospital providing a wide range of services and facilities for children and young people, and information and support for their parents.

The post holder will join a small group of psychologists working within varied specialities within the acute Trust and enjoy links to the larger group based at St George's.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, members of the multi-disciplinary paediatric team, family members and others involved in the clients care
  • To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological needs as they relate to a medical diagnosis, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
  • To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialized psychological interventions for patients, carers, families and groups, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
  • To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
  • To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge from the psychological service, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and all other professional groups in the paediatric
  • medial team as appropriate and others outside the team involved with the care as appropriate
  • To provide expertise and highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
  • To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of paediatric patients, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory
  • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual patients and to provide both general and specialist advice for other professionals on psychological and neuropsychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
  • To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the patients needs, co-ordinating the work of others involved with care, arranging patients care reviews as required and communicating effectively with the patient, his/her family and all others involved in care and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience of working within child and adolescent settings
  • Experience of working with physical health settings
  • Experience of working in MDT
  • Experience of supervising psychologists and other team members
  • Experience of service development

Desirable

  • Experience of leadership

Qualifications

Essential

  • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
  • HCPC registered

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience working an applied psychologist
  • Experience working in a physical health setting
  • Experience working with children, young people, families and staff

Employer details

Employer name

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Epsom and st Helier

Carshalton

SM5 1AA

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