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Site: Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £70,387 - £80,465 per annum pro rata inc HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/12/2024 23:59
Interview date: 09/01/2025
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to co-lead the Intensive Care Psychology service. This person will share the position of Lead Psychologist for a well-respected and valued ICU Psychology service that provides specialist psychological services to patients and staff of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital. The team sits within a large, diverse and supportive Clinical Health Psychology service.
The ICUs form part of the North West London Critical Care Network Group, which is committed to sharing best practice through peer review processes and regular networking events.
As part of our commitment to address inequalities in healthcare, we are keen to hear from applicants with lived experience relevant to the diverse communities we work with, and from those with particular skills in understanding and promoting anti-discrimination associated with protected characteristics.
Main duties of the job
* To develop, deliver and lead a high quality, sustainable, evidence-based psychology service for the ICUs, including highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions for patients, relatives and caregivers in the ICU setting.
* To provide a range of highly specialist psychological interventions, both therapeutic and psychoeducational, for patients, relatives/caregivers and the team to ensure psychologically informed care in the ICU.
* To provide clinical leadership into the development of the ICU Psychology Service, in line with Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s vision.
* To regularly use excellent communication and interpersonal skills to defuse emotive situations and develop positive therapeutic relationships/partnerships with others, for example in end of life care.
* To regularly audit and review clinical activity within the service and consider developing new cost-effective, evidence-based delivery models to increase access to the service.
* To serve as a source of professional leadership and consultation to the Trust in areas pertaining to psychological practice and initiatives for promoting psychological care in the ICUs.
* To provide expert advice to managers and other stakeholders in the Trust in relation to promoting and improving psychological skills for staff working in the ICUs.
Working for our organisation
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is a great place to work for Psychological Professions. We employ a wide range of Psychological Professions. We value the rich, diverse contributions to our services that our great staff make.
As a Trust, we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation-wide. We have partnered with Bespoke and Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession-specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions we commission as part of CNWL CPD programme for Psychological Professions. CNWL also has seven established staff networks supporting a range of individual needs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To take responsibility for managing the referrals to the ICU Psychology service.
* To provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions for patients admitted to the ICUs based upon the appropriate use and interpretation of individual psychological approaches, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and consultation with the MDT.
* To evaluate and make decisions about intervention options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
* To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to psychological wellbeing and support of the patient in ICU.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individuals, and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
* To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of individuals and teams under their care.
* To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist, including experience of working in a health care setting.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Experience of the application of health psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams in physical health.
* Strong professional interest in the link between physical and mental health.
* Knowledge of specialised assessment and therapeutic approaches in trauma and appearance distress.
* Experience of working with adults or children who have experienced physical injury.
* Experience of providing teaching and training.
* Experience of working in an ICU or other acute physical health inpatient setting.
* Experience of liaison with other health professionals.
* Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit and other service evaluation projects.
* Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity.
* Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
* Experience of staff recruitment and selection.
Education and Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology.
* Health and Care Professions Council registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice.
Skills and knowledge
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of delivering psychological interventions.
* Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team setting.
* Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Experience of leading specific projects within a clinical service.
Other
* Ability to teach and train others.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population.
We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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