Job summary
Applied Psychologist Band 8a
We are seeking a practitioner psychologist or child and adolescent psychotherapist. This is an exciting new post to develop and ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to families and staff in the neonatal teams and inpatient paediatric teams at Epsom and St Helier.
The role will include providing highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention with families within the neonatal unit and paediatric inpatients, offering advice and consultation on psychological aspects of care to other health professionals and supporting clinical team members. The postholder will work autonomously, within recognised professional guidelines as part of the teams. The post holder will be expected to utilise their knowledge of evidence based psychological interventions and research skills to implement audit, research and service development projects. The postholder will also be involved in the training and continuing professional development of clinical psychologists and other health professionals. The postholder will be part of the wider paediatric psychology team and the Trust Clinical health psychology provision.
Interview Date:TBC
Main duties of the job
Assessment and intervention with families within the neonatal units
Provision of specialist psychological advice and consultation to multi-disciplinary teams - neonatal and paediatric inpatient
Supporting neonatal staff teams
Liaison with wider specialist services
Service audit and evaluation
Participation in wider neonatal network
About us
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.
Person Specification
Training and qualifications
Essential
1. Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent
2. HCPC registered
Desirable
3. Relevant post-doctoral training
Experience
Essential
4. Post-qualification experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision working as a clinical psychologist (or equivalent) over a minimum of 18 months.
5. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
6. Experience of working with MDT
7. Experience of service development and innovation
Desirable
8. Experience of working in paediatric/medical settings
9. Experience of offering staff support
knowedge and skills
Essential
10. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to children and young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
11. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
12. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
13. Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity - including experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable
14. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological approaches for specific problems encountered in this setting ( traumatic reactions, bereavements, managing medical settings).