Site: Southampton General Hospital
Town: Southampton
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (PA) Pro rata
Closing: 14/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 10/02/2025
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
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.
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.
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 assessment of children of all ages, providing psychological support to the staff who work with children and young people, and devising psychological strategies to assist children in adapting to diagnoses and in adhering to medical treatment regimes.
You will need experience of assessing and working with children and young people with a whole range of emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families/carers, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of settings including outpatient, community, educational, and residential. You will also need experience of carrying out neuropsychological assessments with children and young people.
Person specification
Trust Values
* Patients First
* Always Improving
* Working Together
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 whole range of emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families/carers.
* Experience of working in an acute paediatric setting and/or experience of working 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.
* High degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Experience of representing Psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
* 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.
Skills and competencies
* Communication
* Interpersonal skills
* Organisational skills
* Presentation Skills
* Problem solving
* Time management
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
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