University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for a detailed job description for the role.
Main duties of the job
The Child Psychology team at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) are seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join our friendly and enthusiastic team. You will work alongside other psychologists to provide a service within multidisciplinary teams at UHS, likely to include gastroenterology work.
The Child Psychology team consists of 26 Clinical Psychologists and three Admin staff as well as Trainees and Assistants. We are a friendly and supportive team with good arrangements for supervision and further learning. The team draws from a range of theoretical frameworks to inform its practice, including attachment, systemic ideas, ACT, CFT, CDT and EMDR.
This is a 0.8 wte job at band 8a as a clinical psychologist in our team. The main duties will involve therapeutic clinical work with children, young people and their families living with complex and often chronic health conditions, including gastroenterological conditions.
Job responsibilities
You will be required to provide specialist psychological assessments of children and young people (inpatients and outpatients) referred from paediatric specialities such as gastroenterology, diabetes, neurology and general paediatrics, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources, including psychological tests, neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, family members and others involved in the child's care.
The role will involve using advanced theoretical and practical knowledge to provide Clinical Psychology input as appropriate. This will require skills such as undertaking neuropsychological assessments of children of all ages, providing psychological support to the staff who work with children and young people, providing evidence-based therapies to children, therapeutic input to the family and wider system around the child, and devising psychological strategies to assist children in adapting to diagnoses and in adhering to medical treatment regimes.
You will need to liaise with members of the paediatric teams supporting these families to establish ways in which clinical psychology can be of most use to their services. This is likely to include having therapeutic input with children who show unexplained or inconsistent symptoms, supporting children and families in managing treatment plans, working with families adjusting to new diagnoses in their children and assisting families with the psychological implications of diagnoses.
Person Specification
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
* Postgraduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the Health Professions Council
* Experience of assessing and working with children and young people with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families/carers.
* Experience of working in an acute paediatric setting and/or with children and families experiencing issues related to loss, bereavement, long-term medical needs, severe illness or injury.
* Experience of carrying out neuropsychological assessments with children and young people.
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of one or more highly specialised psychological therapies, e.g. family therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
Trust Values
* Patients First
* Always Improving
* Working Together
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
1 year
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
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