We’re delighted to offer an opportunity for a Band 7 practitioner psychologist (clinical or counselling psychologist) to join the UCLH critical care psychology team for a period of one year. Please note that preceptorship applications will be accepted from trainees who have successfully completed the clinical components of their doctorate and are awaiting their viva (in which case the successful applicant would be employed at Band 6 pending full qualification).
The successful candidate will be joining a friendly, passionate and supportive psychology team which is fully embedded in the critical care unit and is very much valued by the team. The team has grown rapidly in recent years and we have good working relationships with our multidisciplinary team colleagues and with psychology colleagues across the trust.
The postholder will support the team to deliver its full range of services to patients and their families and to critical care staff. As well as delivering direct psychological care this also includes active contribution to projects that support the unit to become a psychologically- and trauma-informed service. The post holder will also support the unit’s efforts to cultivate positive culture change and to promote staff wellbeing.
As a critical care psychologist you will provide direct psychological care to critical care patients supporting them during their journey from a critical care admission all the way through to follow-up after discharge from hospital. You will work directly with critical care inpatients and their families and indirectly by supporting the medical staff who care for them to help promote holistic and psychologically informed care. You will be an integral member of a large multi-disciplinary team so it will be important to establish effective working relationships with colleagues.
Duties would include:
• To conduct person-centred psychosocial assessment of patients and to deliver supportive psychological interventions where needed (inpatients and outpatients)
• To support distressed family members who may be struggling to cope with their loved one’s critical care admission or prognosis.
• To offer consultation to MDT colleagues on the psychosocial aspects of critical care and to provide support and guidance when helpful.
• To help promote staff wellbeing among healthcare professionals working in critical care through a range of projects and interventions, including facilitating reflective sessions for teams, as needed.
• To offer clinical supervision to psychology trainees and to support other professionals providing psychological care for patients and their families
• To undertake clinical audit, service evaluation or research & development activities.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineand pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
This post would suit a confident psychologist with prior experience working in critical care or a similar medical environment, who can hit the ground running. The successful candidate will relish variety and be happy to get involved in all aspects of patient’s psychological care, working both directly with patients and their families and indirectly via medical & nursing colleagues. Experience of working with patients who have experienced trauma and an interest promoting trauma-informed care is essential.
This post offers excellent opportunities for learning, leadership a career development for the right candidate and there is a good chance that this may become a permanent post. Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second yearrunning!University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Nov 2024
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