An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical/Practitioner Psychologist to join our Clinical Psychology team for20.5 hours per week on a secondment until 31stMarch 2027.
This post is part of an exciting project supporting the Complications of Excess Weight initiative across ESNEFT and NNUH. The post holder will work as part of a local MDT to support children and their families, working in collaboration with the CEW team at NNUH. Applicants are welcomed from Clinical and Practitioner Psychologists who are passionate about working with this client group. The post will be primarily based at Colchester Hospital but as clinics run across both sites the post holder will also be expected to work at Ipswich Hospital as and when needed.
The post holder will provide support to children and young people referred to the ESNEFT CEW service for psychological support. They will be responsible for overseeing psychology referrals and managing their own caseload. The role will involve working with children and young people as well as families, and external agencies such as mental health services, community partners and social care. Part of the role will involve consultation to other healthcare professionals and joint working with the CEW team at NNUH, linking in with their lead Clinical Psychologist for the CEW service. There will be opportunities to develop new service offers from the Psychology team.
· To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children in the Healthy Futures clinic, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observationsandsemi-structuredinterviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care.
· Todeveloppsychological formulations ofpresentingproblems thatintegratepsychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biologicalfactors.
· Provide expertise, specialist advice, support and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the Paediatric multi-disciplinary teams in which children are supported, contributing directly to patients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
· Toberesponsibleforimplementingarangeof psychologicalinterventionsforindividuals, carers, families and groups. Evaluating and adjusting psychological formulations drawing on a rangeoftheoreticaland therapeuticmodelsandmaintaininganumber ofprovisional hypotheses.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jan 2025