Employer: University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Town: Bristol
Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/03/2025 23:59
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Band 8c
As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
This is a leadership post within Psychological Health Services. The role is to lead and develop highly valued psychological services for a broad range of medical and surgical specialties within our acute Trust. The services led by this post are primarily within paediatric care and are for patients and families on care pathways without Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) embedded psychological services. These include paediatric surgical specialties. The role also works with all other PHS Trust-wide Consultant Psychologists to respond safely during periods of staff absence or vacancy. The position involves delegated duties from the Head of Psychological Health Services and service wide leadership.
Main duties of the job
1. To lead the delivery and quality improvement of the Trust-wide PHS staff vacancy, W&C divisional multispecialty brief intervention service, and paediatric surgical specialties leading a range of psychosocial professional involvement.
2. To provide leadership, representation and other duties delegated by the Head of Service.
3. To lead, coordinate and supervise and disseminate psychological research, service evaluation and audit activity both uni-professionally and in collaboration with other professional groups to the extent covered by this post.
4. To provide clinical, leadership, management and professional services within Psychological Health Services.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For all main duties of the job, please refer to the job description and personal specification document attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Doctorate in clinical psychology/counselling psychology or equivalent (E)
* Current registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (E)
* Training appropriate theoretical models for use in the post
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to generate systemic and individual psychological formulations and triage/deliver brief interventions based on applying psychological theories and models to the complex information generated by the patient and systems as appropriate.
* Advanced communication skills with the ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from patients and their families in a developmentally and culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations.
* Ability to access, record and manage information and data pertaining to the work undertaken in notes, data bases and electronic records as required.
* Ability to prioritise and manage available time for clinical, managerial and professional activities effectively and safely.
* Able to travel as required.
* Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
* Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
* Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
Knowledge and Experience
* Extensive experience of working as a Clinical Psychologist leader of NHS staff support services.
* Extensive experience of undertaking team consultation development.
* Extensive experience working within health care to provide large training events, public speaking and presenting data at professional meetings.
* Extensive experience of formal teaching / presentation sessions to health and other professionals.
* Demonstrable knowledge of strategic principles relating to staff support, including trauma informed practice, patient safety and Equality Diversity and Inclusion.
* Knowledge and experience of use appropriate theoretical approaches to working with staff groups and patients and the evidence base for the relevant approaches.
* Experience of providing senior leadership and clinical services within a specialist health setting.
* Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area.
* Record of publications in either peer-reviewed, academic or professional journals/books, and conference presentations.
* Advanced communication skills. The ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from staff and organisations in a culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations.
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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