We are looking to recruit an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to co-lead the Intensive Care Psychology service. This person will share the position of Lead Psychologist for a well-respected and valued ICU Psychology service that provides specialist psychological services to patients and staff of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital. The team sits within a large, diverse and supportive Clinical Health Psychology service.
The ICUs form part of the North West London Critical Care Network Group, which is committed to sharing best practice through peer review processes and regular networking events.
As part of our commitment to address inequalities in healthcare, we are keen to hear from applicants with lived experience relevant to the diverse communities we work with, and from those with particular skills in understanding and promoting anti-discrimination associated with protected characteristics. The Trust has the following active Staff Networks: BAME Staff Network, Disabled Employees Network (DEN+), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Staff Network (LGBT+), Carers at Work Network, Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues Stigma Transformation (LEMHIST) Network and Women's Network. The postholder will be supported to access and contribute to the work of these networks as a member or ally.
Main duties of the job
1. To develop, deliver and lead a high quality, sustainable, evidence-based psychology service for the ICUs, including highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions for patients, relatives and caregivers in the ICU setting.
2. To provide a range of highly specialist psychological interventions, both therapeutic and psychoeducational, for patients, relatives/caregivers and the team to ensure psychologically informed care in the ICU.
3. To provide clinical leadership into the development of the ICU Psychology Service, in line with Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's vision.
4. To regularly use excellent communication and interpersonal skills to defuse emotive situations and develop positive therapeutic relationships/partnerships with others, for example in end of life care.
5. To regularly audit and review clinical activity within the service and consider developing new cost effective, evidence-based delivery models to increase access to the service.
6. To serve as a source of professional leadership and consultation to the Trust in areas pertaining to psychological practice and initiatives for promoting psychological care in the ICUs.
7. To provide expert advice to managers and other stakeholders in the Trust in relation to promoting and improving psychological skills for staff working in the ICUs.
About us
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is a great place to work for Psychological Professions. We employ a wide range of Psychological Professions. We value the rich, diverse contributions to our services that our great staff make. We offer our Psychological Professions opportunities across a range of clinical services, in the most diverse areas in London.
As a Trust, we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide. We have partnered with Bespoke and Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions we commission as part of CNWL CPD programme for Psychological Professions. CNWL also has seven established staff networks supporting a range of individual needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To take responsibility for managing the referrals to the ICU Psychology service.
2. To provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions for patients admitted to the ICUs based upon the appropriate use and interpretation of individual psychological approaches, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and consultation with the MDT.
3. To evaluate and make decisions about intervention options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, including recognising potential for or signs of safeguarding concerns.
4. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to psychological wellbeing and support of the patient in ICU, including supporting MDT on rehabilitation planning.
5. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individuals, and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To liaise with external agencies, including Liaison Psychiatry and community based agencies as appropriate.
6. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of individuals and teams under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of the interventions offered.
7. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
1. Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist, including experience of working in a health care setting.
2. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
3. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
4. Experience of the application of health psychology in different cultural contexts and of working with interpreters.
5. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment.
6. Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams in physical health.
7. Strong professional interest in the link between physical and mental health.
8. Knowledge of specialised assessment and therapeutic approaches in trauma and appearance distress.
9. Experience of working with adults or children who have experienced physical injury and the associated social and psychological implications of injury and rehabilitation.
10. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with physical health problems in a hospital-based setting (inpatient/outpatient).
11. Experience of providing teaching and training.
12. Experience of working in an ICU or other acute physical health inpatient setting.
13. Experience of liaison with other health professionals.
14. Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit and other service evaluation projects.
15. Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
16. Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area.
17. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
18. Experience of staff recruitment and selection.
Desirable
1. Experience of successful development of business cases leading to the commissioning of new services.
Education and Qualifications
Essential
1. Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent), including specifically models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
2. Health and Care Professions Council registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
1. Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice.
2. Post-doctoral training in a relevant field.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
1. Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
2. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of delivering psychological interventions to specific groups and communities (e.g. individuals who identify as BAME).
3. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
4. Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team setting at a high level, hold leadership role and contribute to effective team functioning.
5. Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data and for teaching purposes.
6. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
7. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Desirable
1. Experience of leading specific projects within a clinical service.
2. Experience of providing day to day management and support to junior psychologists.
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential
1. A capacity to establish priorities and organise workload effectively and efficiently.
Other
Essential
1. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
2. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
London
SW10 9NG
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