The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Psychology in Healthcare Department (Children and Young People) is undergoing a period of growth and development. As a result, we are looking to recruit a highly motivated and creative Band 7 Clinical Psychologist or a Band 8a Applied Psychologist to work alongside an enthusiastic team.
The successful candidate will provide highly specialist psychological support to children, young people, and their families who have complex health needs. The candidate will be expected to contribute to service development and think about creative and innovative ways of working. They will provide supervision for colleagues and contribute to teaching in the department and in wider systems. Working in this context requires the ability to form effective working relationships with colleagues in multidisciplinary teams and wider systems.
The Psychology in Healthcare Department (Children and Young People) is a dynamic team comprised of qualified clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and assistant psychologists. Staff use a variety of approaches including systemic, CBT, ACT, and EMDR amongst others. The department values and supports staff wellbeing, for example, we take regular lunch breaks, walk together, value thinking time, and organize social events.
* Interview Date: Wednesday 22 January 2025
Main duties of the job
* To provide highly specialized psychological assessment, formulation, and therapy to children, young people, and their families.
* To provide advice and consultation to colleagues from other disciplines and work closely with multidisciplinary teams.
* To contribute to the wider department through service development and project work.
About us
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
* Freeman Hospital
* Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
* Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
* Newcastle Dental Hospital
* Newcastle Fertility Centre
* Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
* Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services that deliver cutting-edge care and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job responsibilities
Band 7
* To provide a qualified paediatric clinical psychology service within the paediatric psychology team, providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and therapy.
* To offer advice and consultation about children, young people, and families on issues of psychological care, to colleagues from other disciplines and to other non-professional carers.
* To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
* To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development, and research within the area served by the team/service.
* The post is mainly based at the Great North Children's Hospital but there will be outreach work into the community and other hospitals.
Band 8a
* To take appropriate responsibility for applied psychology provision specialising in the specific service area in which this post is located and making recommendations regarding service provision. Is expected to manage the care of challenging and complex psychological presentations presenting within this part of the service.
* To provide a qualified applied psychology service across all sectors of care to the population; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and therapy. Offering advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development, and research within the team/service area.
* To provide supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and you. Speak to us about how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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Person Specification
Meets All Band 7 Criteria
* Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
* HCPC registration.
* Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of children, young people, and families across the full range of care settings, including inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* In addition to obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to practice as a clinical psychologist, has additional knowledge of National Good Practice of working as a clinical psychologist in Paediatric Health Services.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Demonstrable skills in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Computer literate - competent use of email/internet and patient information systems for electronic clinical records and diary management as appropriate.
* Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post - some community-based work.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies as applied to paediatric acute hospital settings.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, and/or fields of applied psychology.
Meets All Band 8a Criteria
* Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, or Health Psychology or Masters level training in Occupational Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society or Masters level training in Family Therapy.
* Registered with HCPC.
* Masters level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, and inpatient.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* In addition to obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to practice as an applied psychologist, has additional knowledge of National Good Practice of working as an applied psychologist in health services.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Demonstrable skills in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Computer literate - competent use of email/internet and patient information systems for electronic clinical records and diary management.
* The ability to meet the travel requirements of the post.
* Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, and/or fields of applied psychology.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups within a health care context.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist
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