Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical Psychologist to join the new Paediatric Clinical Psychology team at James Paget University Hospital. This post will form part of a growing Clinical Psychology team; with exciting opportunities for service development and team working as we expand into additional areas of paediatrics. Our dedicated team work alongside the multidisciplinary paediatric teams at JPUH, linking in with teams within the specialities of diabetes, epilepsy, functional neurological disorders, gastroenterology, orthopaedics and general paediatrics. This new post will have a focus on expansion into the neonatal unit at JPUH. Also opportunities within the established provision to the epilepsy service, for working with young people from the healthy weight clinics, and furthering the work currently in place linking with the neurodevelopmental team at the Newberry Clinic in Gorleston. We welcome applications from newly qualified Clinical Psychologists and current band 7's with a strong interest in working with this client group.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist who can work autonomously, and as part of a team, to provide high quality assessments and formulations and individualised interventions for a range of presentations in young people with long-term conditions. The role will involve multidisciplinary working with the wider paediatric teams at JPUH, as well as working with individuals, families, and external agencies such as schools, mental health services and social care. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist with excellent communication skills who can work sensitively and thoughtfully with children, young people and their families. A significant part of the job will involve working on the neonatal unit at the JPUH and developing strong working relationships with the staff on the unit, as well as appropriate psychological interventions for the families on the unit. The role will also involve engaging with service-users as part of service development and expansion.
About us
We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential.
We're a 450-bed district general hospital. Through the national NHS Staff Survey, our staff value our commitment to flexible working, and feel engaged and involved in how services operate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and the person specification attached to this advert to understand the main responsibilities
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
1. Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS and registration with HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
2. HCPC registration
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
3. 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, in-patient and out-patient care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
4. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan. Experience of undertaking risk assessments and risk management plans.
Desirable
5. Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
6. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and interventions with children and young people with long term conditions
7. Experience of psychological models of working on neonatal units
8. Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
Skills
Essential
9. Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
10. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
11. A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
12. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
13. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Personal skills
Essential
14. Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
15. Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.