Neonatal Clinical Psychologist

2 months ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity to develop this newly created post, working as part of the department of NGH at KGH NHS Trust. Expectations of the post-holder include:
To provide highly specialist psychological support to babies, their families and staff on the Neonatal Care Unit at NGH and KGH sites.

To liaise closely with the multi disciplinary team to provide specialised advice and consultation on babies and families psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.

To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists on the unit(s).

To work systemically, supporting the neonatal MDT to deliver psychologically informed care to babies and their families.

To contribute to the delivery of teaching, training and supervision for both psychology and non-psychologist colleagues in order to enable them to identify early families who will benefit from specialist input. For example, developing and promoting screening tools for bedside staff to use.

To provide highly specialist psychological support to babies, their families and staff on the Neonatal Care Unit at NGH and KGH sites.

To liaise closely with the multi disciplinary team to provide specialised advice and consultation on babies and families psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.

To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists on the unit(s).

To work systemically, supporting the neonatal MDT to deliver psychologically informed care to babies and their families.

To contribute to the delivery of teaching, training and supervision for both psychology and non-psychologist colleagues in order to enable them to identify early families who will benefit from specialist input. For example, developing and promoting screening tools for bedside staff to use.

To formulate plans to support families and staff where there might be a breakdown in communication or relationship.

To utilise research skills for the purposes of audit, policy development and research, joined with other practitioner psychologists in the East Midlands Neonatal ODN as well as with the Lead Psychologist in the ODN.

To contribute to service evaluation and service development in line with service objectives and with the aim of meeting national and local guidelines and targets.

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

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We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

**Clinical**:
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments to families while they are currently on the Neonatal Unit. This will be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with families and others involved in the baby’s care.

To advise on appropriate psychoeducation and training to staff to help them to provide quality emotional support to all families.

To provide psychological support and supervision for staff working on the unit. This may be in the form of group sessions by providing a safe space for reflection and providing tools and/or sign posting for further support. This will also include either supporting, or leading small group debrief sessions following an emotionally traumatic clinical situation.

To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate complex information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors, across the full range of care settings.

To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a family’s psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.

To be responsible for implementin



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