Clinical Psychologist

Are you passionate about working with Children and Young People with chronic health conditions? Would you thrive in an enthusiastic and proactive multi-disciplinary team?

If so, then we have the perfect opportunity for you. An exciting position has arisen for a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist within the Children and Young People’s Sickle Cell Service. The post holder will provide a clinical psychology service for Children and Young People with Sickle Cell Disease across Hertfordshire working alongside a small but supportive multi-disciplinary team of Paediatric Consultants and Sickle Cell Specialist Nurses.

To provide a specialist, community based clinical psychology service to Children and Young People living with Sickle Cell Disease across Hertfordshire, this includes the provision of clinics. The post holder will participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team consisting of Consultant Paediatricians, Clinical Nurse Specialists and Administration staff and lead on the psychological care of children with Sickle Cell Disease through the provision of highly specialist, psychological assessment and treatment including psychometric and cognitive assessments. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance for their psychological practice within the service and work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures. To engage self in the clinical network and care pathway for the client group and actively contribute to the further development of such networks and pathways. The post holder will receive supervision from a Clinical Psychologist with specialist knowledge of working in Paediatrics.

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

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- To provide specialist psychological assessments to children and young people based upon appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of information sources including clinical interview with the child/young person and family members and others involved in the client’s care, psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales and direct and in-direct structured observations as appropriate.
- To formulate and implement psychological treatment plans and management plans based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and development processes that have shaped the individual, family, or family group.
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner regarding the assessment, formulation, and intervention plans of clients.
- To consider issues of parental responsibility when undertaking assessment/consultation/intervention with children and young people.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual child and adolescent clients and to provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation, and interventions, communicating with referrers and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress.
- To liaise effectively with other health and social care staff, from a wide range of agencies, in the care provided to individuals and families.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the client’s formulation and treatment plan.
- The post holder will be required to establish communication networks with a wide and cross organisational group of professionals, associated agencies and client group/family.
- To represent clinical psychology and attend relevant meetings and professional activities.
- To assess the training and development needs of the MDT in psychological approaches and deliver this training. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologist, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessar