The post-holder will be responsible for delivering psychological support in the Neonatal Unit at UHCW. They will ensure optimum quality of care to parents and families of babies, offering psychological support where appropriate. Providing support to individuals, couples and families who are dealing with issues that affect their mental health and well-being or who are at risk of developing mental health issues in the perinatal period.
The post holder will work collaboratively with families in a holistic way, offering the most appropriate support, signposting and referral to additional support services as required. Working closely with antenatal, complex care, post-natal and outreach services to provide an inclusive service for all families.
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities. The role will also work very closely across a multi-agency partnership.
The post holder will also provide confidential professional support to staff as required. In addition, the postholder will offer advice and consultation on patient’s psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines to patients’ families and carers. The post holder will also supervise and support the Neonatal Counsellor involved with these services.
This is an opportunity to join an enthusiastic team who are committed to providing a high-quality service. This post provides opportunities for service development work, which will be guided by best practice standards and frameworks, as well as an external clinical supervisor and internal line manager.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Responsibilities:
1. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments and therapy for parents or infants in the neonatal unit using highly complex psychological data gained from a wide variety of sources.
2. To be responsible for evidence based psychological interventions with families and carers of babies accessing the service and specifically to promote adaptation and adjustment.
3. To ensure the systematic provision of psychological services, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately.
4. To use psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with parents and family members and others involved in the care of the babies on the unit.
5. To follow up and to re-assess when considered appropriate, using approved statistical methods to make valid comparisons.
6. To communicate both orally, and in written reports, the content of these investigations and resulting formulations to support the work of multidisciplinary colleagues.
7. To work as an independent and autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work.
8. To contribute to the effective working of the multi-disciplinary health team to deliver comprehensive clinical care to families and infants, ensuring that psychological wellbeing is central to the planning and delivery of health care.
9. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals contributing directly to patient’s formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of clients.
10. To ensure that members of staff within UHCW have access to psychologically based framework for understanding through the provision of advice, supervision, consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
11. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
12. To contribute to the development of services in the locality, reviewing service outcomes, designing and participating in audit, research and clinical governance initiatives.
13. To provide supervision to the Neonatal Counsellor in post, trainee clinical/counselling psychologists on placement, assistant psychologists, psychology Masters students, volunteers and other colleagues.
For further details please see the attached job description.
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