Job summary

We are looking to recruit to a part-time, permanent General Paediatric Clinical Psychology post. The post holder will offer a General Paediatric Service to the ESTH Paediatric Consultants.

You will be joining a friendly and welcoming team of three Paediatric Psychologists with extensive experience of General Paediatrics and will be able to offer support, advice and regular is a wonderful opportunity to extend and develop your experience of working in child and family services in a well-supported service.

Our current service inputs into the paediatric diabetes and allergy MDT teams as well as general paediatrics. We also offer a regular Clinical Psychologist Trainee placement for Surrey University Clinical Psychology Programme.

This trust has a well-established team of both adult and child Clinical Psychologists who form a Clinical Health Psychology adult team cover pain management, HIV and sexual health, chronic fatigue, stroke, diabetes services.

We have close links with Surrey University and strong networks with other clinical health psychology services in the region.

Applications will be considered from applicants currently working at Band 7 who wish to take on a preceptorship role towards the Band 8a role.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a)

The post holder will primarily be offering psychology assessment and intervention to general paediatric services young people and their families who are managing chronic and acute health conditions.

Form part of a small paediatric psychology department within the Trust

Link with the wider group of psychologists working within Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust

Contribute to audit, supervision and teaching within the paediatric department

Proposed Interview Date: TBC

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

Both Epsom and Queen Mary's Hospital in Carshalton are easily accessible from central London but also close to the North Downs and Surrey countryside.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements.

Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. Including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology Registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist

Desirable

Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

Experience

Essential

Post qualification experience of working at a highly specialist level with children and young people Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, individually and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. Experience of service development and innovation Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity - including experience of working within a multicultural framework

Desirable

Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care. Experience of assessing and treating children and young people with mental health needs across the full range of care settings Experience of working in a paediatric setting Familiarity with child and adolescent outpatient facilities and community/social services provision Experience of group and family work

Knowledge

Essential

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration, especially in relation to children and young people. Advanced level knowledge of at least 2 models of psychological therapy relevant to children and families with medical conditions and knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for them Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to children and young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the health and welfare services to children and young people and mental health. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.

Desirable

Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups ( children and young people with complex needs, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.). Knowledge of the academic literature concerning child and adolescent disorders and developmental issues Skills in the specialist assessment and treatment of children and young people with chronic or acute medical conditions and their families. Knowledge of the theory of psychological models of for paediatric psychology and chronic illness.

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