Main area: Clinical Psychology-Paediatrics
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Applications also accepted for either part of role)
Employer: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Site: Northwick Park Hospital
Town: Harrow
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc pro rata if part time
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/10/2024 18:00
Interview date: 04/11/2024
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to a full time, permanent post within the Paediatric Psychology department at Northwick Park Hospital (NWP). Experience of working in paediatric psychology is desirable, but not essential as you will be supervised by an experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist and part of a developing paediatric psychology team. This position would suit a newly qualified psychologist with a keen interest in developing their career in Paediatrics.
You will have an interest in applying a range of psychological models in a flexible way, working directly with children, young people and their families. There will be indirect work via liaison and consultation with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies. Part of your role may include staff support, providing debriefs and regular reflective practice to teams, as well as MDT teaching.
You will be part of the wider CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service. This service meets monthly for business, journal and research presentations, as well as clinical and skill sharing. There is also a CNWL paediatric diabetes specialist interest group that meets quarterly.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to patients being seen within the Paediatric Service at Northwick Park Hospital across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
0.5 WTE of the post would be working as an integrated member of the well-established paediatric multidisciplinary diabetes service and the remaining 0.5WTE would be to work with children, young people & their families being seen within the Paediatric Epilepsy service. Both roles would include the provision of inpatient and outpatient services. This is a fulltime post but applications would also be accepted for either part of the role (0.5WTE at each site).
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Working for our organisation
Northwick Park Hospital is a large teaching hospital offering secondary and tertiary level medical services to ethnically and socio-economically diverse populations. Clinical Psychology services are provided to the Paediatric, Oncology, Epilepsy and Diabetes teams.
The Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) is responsible for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental health Services (CAMHS) to the populations of Brent, Hillingdon, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster and Milton Keynes, as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to other Trusts and Agencies, and to a wider regional catchment area. The CNWL Paediatric and Child Development Psychology service provides services to 7 acute hospitals across the Central and North West London area.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of psychological care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Person specification
Training & Qualification
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the HCPC-practitioner psychologist-domain of clinical psychology
- Training and qualifications in a relevant field of applied psychology/research methodology.
Experience
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including child, young people and their families.
- Pre and/or post qualification experience of working in a paediatric psychology team
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervising.
Knowledge & Skills
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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.
- Skills in offering consultation/reflective practice within multidisciplinary acute health setting.
Other
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- 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.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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