Main area Psychological Health Services Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (minimum of 0.6 wte) Job ref 387-WC5568-JJ
Site Bristol Royal Hospital for Children Town Bristol Salary £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 30/03/2025 23:59
As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
If you enjoy interdisciplinary team working and clinical complexity in a paediatric context, we have the role for you. Leadership ability, flexibility and great communication are essential for 8a roles within the newly developing Children and Young People's Gender Service (South West). We are a new team, learning and developing together along with other hubs as part of a national network of services providing excellent holistic care for children and young people with concerns about their gender. We are fortunate to have the support to ensure that research and evaluation, patient and parent involvement are routine in this well resourced and closely monitored service. We need excellent clinical staff.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical psychology services into teams within Women and Children Service, primarily but not exclusively within the NHS Children and Young People Gender Service (South West).
To share with the multi professional clinical team, through joint working, consultation, training and service development activities, psychological knowledge and skills to enable individualised psychological care in partnership with young people.
To participate in research and audit activity in collaboration with other professional groups and other providers as appropriate, to increase the evidence base and support the sharing of good practice in psychological and social care for the young people receiving services.
To provide effective line management, clinical supervision and training for psychologists and other staff as requested by the Clinical Lead, and the Head of Psychological Health Services.
To advise and work with the Clinical Lead and Head of Psychological Health Services to develop and implement: service developments, policies, protocols and guidelines relating to the psychological services provided for this population.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston; join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
* Post qualification experience of working as a clinical psychologist with children and young people who have a condition relating to health.
* Post qualification experience of working as a clinical psychologist providing psychological consultation, case management supervision and training to multi-professional and multi-agency teams.
* Post qualification experience of and demonstrable understanding of working as a clinical psychologist within a multi-disciplinary physical health setting.
* Formal teaching/presentation sessions to health and other professionals.
* The implications of acute and long-term conditions and disability for young people/adults as applicable.
* Demonstrable knowledge of legislation and guidance pertaining to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, consent, confidentiality and standards of psychological care within relevant NICE and other guidance.
* Evidence of applying doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
* Evidence of having worked in an area of clinical practice providing insight to CYP with gender diversity.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice relevant to specialised psychological assessments and interventions for CYP with gender diversity.
* Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment of common mental health difficulties experienced by CYP with gender diversity.
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to assess the psychological needs of children, young people and families, including the use of cognitive and developmental psychometric tests.
* Ability to generate systemic and individual psychological formulations and interventions based on applying psychological theories and models to the complex information generated by the young person/adult and social care systems.
* Ability to access, record and manage information and data pertaining to the work undertaken in medical and psychology notes, databases and electronic records as required.
* Ability to prioritise and manage available time for clinical work and professional activities effectively and safely.
* Able to travel to regional clinics, meetings and super-regional visits if required.
* To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
* Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
* Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
* Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
* To be skilled in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials.
Qualifications and Training
* Doctorate in clinical psychology, Counselling psychology or equivalent.
* Current registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council.
* Training course in clinical supervision.
* Advanced communication skills with the ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from young people/adults in a culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations. This will include the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner.
* The ability to work with curiosity in a contested area where work practice may be criticised publicly.
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
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