Principal Clinical Psychologist, Complex Presentations
Band 8b
Main area: Psychological Health Services
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 387-WC-7210-SL
Site: Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and other locations
Town: Bristol
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 29/01/2025
As an organisation, we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
We are looking for a 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
* Advanced communication skills, including the ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information in a culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations.
* Ability to endure personal and professional challenge including media scrutiny.
Knowledge and Experience
* Post qualification experience of working as a specialist practitioner clinical psychologist providing direct clinical work, psychological consultation, and 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.
* Record of publications in either peer-reviewed, academic, or professional journals/books.
Skills and Abilities
* 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.
* 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.
Qualifications and Training
* 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.
* Management/leadership training.
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
IMPORTANT:
Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
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