Job Summary
We are looking for thoughtful, compassionate, and innovative highly specialist (Principal) Clinical Psychologist with expertise in health care provision for children and young people with Complex Presentations. This leader would be at the forefront of the NHS Children and Young People Gender Service (South West) within the governance structure of the service and Psychological Health Services as part of a Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to develop, deliver, and evaluate specified services provided by a range of clinicians and health professionals. Provision will include clinical services, research and quality improvement including dissemination, and training and consultation to other partner services and agencies. The clinicians also work via Psychological Health Services to provide complex case input to other paediatric services.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Highly Specialist clinical assessment and intervention, and leadership, to ensure the systematic provision of a psychology service to the NHS Children and Young People's Gender Service (South West).
2. Training, clinical supervision, and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist within the CYP Gender Service.
3. Joint working, consultation, training, and service development activities.
4. Research relating to service delivery.
5. Management and supervision of staff.
About Us
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.
Person Specification
Aptitudes
Essential
* Advanced communication skills. The ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from staff and organisations 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.
* Ability to endure personal and professional challenge including media scrutiny.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
* Post qualification experience of working as a specialist practitioner clinical psychologist providing direct clinical work, psychological consultation, case management.
* Formal teaching/presentation sessions to health and other professionals.
* Demonstrable knowledge of legislation and guidance pertaining to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, consent, confidentiality, and standards of psychological care within relevant NICE.
* Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment relevant to CYP with complex presentations.
* Experience working with health and social care teams in the context of providing supervision, reflective practice, or team development work.
* Experience of proposing and implementing transformational projects in a health care context.
Desirable
* Record of publications in either peer-reviewed, academic or professional journals/books.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Ability to generate systemic and individual psychological formulations and triage/deliver brief interventions based on applying psychological theories and models to the complex information generated by the patient and systems as appropriate.
* Ability to prioritise and manage available time for clinical, managerial and professional activities effectively and safely.
* Able to travel as required.
* Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
* Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
* Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
* Ability to access, record, and manage information and data pertaining to the work undertaken in notes, databases, and electronic records as required.
Qualifications and Training
Essential
* Doctorate in clinical psychology/counselling psychology or equivalent.
* Current registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council.
* Training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists/other staff.
Desirable
* Management/leadership training.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Address
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and other locations
Upper Maudlin Street
Bristol
BS2 8BJ #J-18808-Ljbffr