Employer: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Harrington Building
Town: Manchester
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rate)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/09/2024 23:59
Clinical Psychologist Band 7 - FEM Service
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Paediatric Psychosocial Service at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH), a Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team for children and young people who are being treated at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and other hospitals. Our team includes clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists who have skills in helping children, young people, and their families.
We are offering different roles to create the Fetal Exposure to Medicines Service (FEMS), a newly NHS England funded pilot of a multi-disciplinary service for children and adults exposed to medications with known or suspect teratogenic properties.
This service will run initially for 18 months across Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Newcastle University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Please note that additional sessions are likely to be available.
Main duties of the job
This post will ensure the development, systematic provision, and evaluation of a high-quality specialist neuropsychology service to patients within the newly established service at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. The successful applicant will be responsible for neuropsychological assessments and formulations and the integration of this information into the wider multidisciplinary team care management for these patients. There will be close liaison within the network (Newcastle NHS Foundation Trust) and with the patient’s local services. The post will include multidisciplinary work with senior colleagues in clinical genetics, paediatrics, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy.
This post involves a flexible approach to working, to ensure psychological aspects can be addressed and supported within a time-pressured medical environment.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, providing a scale of opportunity that is extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you will need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. You will need to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits, and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. It also contains critical information you will need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Registration/ Accreditation
* You must be registered with a professional body (HCPC).
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience of assessment and interpretation of neuropsychological or neurodevelopmental tests.
* Experience in assessment and therapeutic work with children, families, and adult patients across the age range with a full range of presenting problems and across settings including community, outpatient, and clinic settings.
* Experience of assessing and managing risk in a therapeutic setting.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork.
* Experience of teaching, training, and professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of consulting with healthcare and other professionals.
* Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of child and adult patients.
* Experience of working with patients with fetal exposure syndromes.
* Working knowledge of professional systems involved in work with child/adult patients, both in specialist hospital and community settings.
* Experience of working autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Skills and Ability
* Skills in the use of complex methods of neuropsychological assessment, intervention, and management in work with children and families/adult health care service users.
* Ability to integrate psychological theories and outcome data with clinical practice and service provision.
* Ability to represent psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
* Ability to work with people from different backgrounds, cultures, and of different ages.
* Demonstrate sensitivity in all contact with disadvantaged groups.
* Good skills in communicating with children, parents/adult patients, and colleagues.
* Ability to cope with stressful interpersonal situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Ability to plan and prioritise own caseload.
* High level of neuropsychological or neurodevelopmental assessments.
* Skills and experience in group interventions.
Education and supervision
* Experience in designing, planning, and undertaking clinical research and service evaluation.
* Experience in teaching and training staff from other professional groups in psychological skills and concepts.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* Experience of teaching, training, and supervision of assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.
* Positive approach to own continuing professional development.
Personal attributes
* A commitment to undertake further relevant training and self-directed study.
* A commitment to the inclusion of young people’s, parent/carer views in service delivery, development, and design.
* Willingness to contribute to team functioning, performance, and the ongoing development of the service.
Work Related Circumstance
* Use of a car or access to a means of travel across the Trust footprint and externally in line with service needs.
* Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
* Flexibility in working arrangements.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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