This is an exciting opportunity to join the Feeding and Eating Disorders Team as a Senior Clinical Psychologist. There are excellent opportunities to work with children and their families across the full age range, and draw upon skills, knowledge and expertise across a number of different areas of psychological practice including paediatrics, neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health conditions.
You will be part of a diverse MDT, with opportunities to work with psychotherapy, family therapy, clinical nurse specialists, dieticians, psychiatrists, paediatricians, SLT and OT. You will be part of a team of psychologists including an 8b, band 7, assistant, trainee, and placement student and will supervise other psychologists.
You will be involved in group, CBT, systemic and narrative work, as well as audit and service evaluation projects and leading on developing teaching and training initiatives to improve knowledge, care and understanding for this cohort. We have fortnightly reflective practice sessions, teaching, and academic research meetings with key researchers in the field, where there are opportunities to contribute to the evidence base.
Main duties of the job
The team sits within the Mental Health Psychology Stream within Psychological and Mental Health Services PAMHS. There are approximately 90 members of psychology staff, who participate in special interest groups (SIGs), an anti-racism practice group and other service wide initiatives. There are weekly clinical academic departmental presentations, opportunities to observe other teams and contribute to department and trust wide activities.
GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed. We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Combined Values
Essential
* Combined Values
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS/HCPC, including clinical psychometrics, eating disorders and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Post-doctoral training and recorded CPD experience and /or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council as Practitioner Psychologist.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
* ADOS 2/ADI/3Di trained
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
* Experience of working as a qualified psychologist.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
* Experience of working with people with feeding and/or eating disorders.
Desirable
* Experience of supervising qualified clinical psychologists.
* Experience working with people with intellectual disabilities.
* Experience of working with people with ASD.
Skills/Abilities
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their carers, and other professionals.
* Skills in providing consultation and support to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Ability to prepare concise, evidence based, coherent reports summarising large volumes of information from multiple sources.
* Evidence of skilled and productive multidisciplinary team working.
* Ability to identify research needs of service and conduct research.
Employer details
Employer name
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH
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