Senior Clinical Psychologist
3 days ago
Job summary
This role presents an exciting opportunity to provide paediatric psychology services to patients at London North West University healthcare NHS Trust at two of their sites. Firstly, to implement a new service to support parents and families who have babies that are inpatients on the neonatal unit at Northwick Park Hospital. This will involves providing direct support to parents as well as support, consultation and training to staff. Secondly, to continue to provide the well-established psychology support to the Paediatric Diabetes service at Ealing Hospital. The post holder will be primarily based at Northwick Park Hospital, but presence at Ealing Hospital is also a necessary part of the role. The post is full-time, but applications would be accepted for either part of the role, in which case successful applicants could be employed at up to WTE .
You will have significant post qualification experience in child/paediatric psychology, with some experience of working in paediatric diabetes and/or Neonatology being highly desirable.
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Main duties of the job
The role will involve working as an integrated member of the Neonatal to provide psychological support to the families of babies on the unit. You will also provide follow-up support to families once babies have been discharged from the unit. You will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on families' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Paediatric Psychology team's policies and procedures. A further part of the role will be to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development across these areas.
The role will also involve working as an integrated member of the Paediatric Diabetes Team at Ealing Hospital to support children, young people and families on a primarily outpatient basis, with occasional inpatient work at Northwick Park Hospital. You will be joining two Consultant Paediatricians, three Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse and a Paediatric Dietician. The post holder will provide a psychology assessment and intervention service for the local Paediatric Diabetes population, Type 1 and Type 2. There are regular education groups for different developmental and adjustment to diagnosis stages and a developing diabetes transition service.
About us
Central and North West London Foundation NHS Trust (CNWL) provdes Paediatric Psychology services to four acute hospital trusts, (7 hospital sites), across the North West London region. There are regular opportunities to link with the psychologists working across the trusts both informally and formally for CPD and peer support. The CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service meets once a month for business, journal and research presentations, as well as clinical and skill sharing. There is a diabetes subgroup within this who also meet on a regular basis to review and share practice across the 6 MDT diabetes teams.
Northwick Park Hospital is a large teaching hospital offering secondary and tertiary level medical services to ethnically and socio-economically diverse populations. Clinical Psychology services are provided to the Paediatric Oncology, Epilepsy and Diabetes teams.
Ealing Hospital is a district general hospital, part of London North West University Healthcare Trust, providing a general medical & surgical services to the local Southall community. Southall has a large, ethnically and socio-economically diverse population, with many families having English as a second language. You will be working with interpreters and liaising with other agencies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence ofefficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee, assistant Clinical Psychologists and, if appropriate level of experience, newly qualified Clinical Psychologists.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS. Registration with the HCPC
Desirable
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Demonstrate further specialist training/experience
Desirable
Post qualification experience of working as a Paediatric Psychologist. Experience of clinical supervision of trainee and/or assistant psychologists. Experience of working within a Neonatal Unit. Experience of providing psychological support to a Paediatric Diabetes team
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Desirable
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for C&YP-
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