Clinical Health Psychologist
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Chipping, Lancashire | United Kingdom
Job description
At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
We have 3 key priorities which are:
- Early and Effective Intervention
- Helping People to Live Well
- Research and Innovation
The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:
- We value each other
- We are empowered
- We keep things simple
- We are connected
By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.
As an applicant for this role, you are urged to demonstrate within your supporting statement a combination of evidence that reflects your competence to meet the job specification and provide examples of how C&I values are an integral part of the way you have and will continue to deliver service.
Job overview
Job title: Clinical/Counselling Paediatric Psychologist
Salary: Band 8a (depending on previous experience)
Job type: Permanent
Part-time: 30 hours per week (0.8 wte)
We are delighted to offer the exciting opportunity of psychology lead for the Paediatric Haematology service within Whittington Health NHS Trust. This new post involves working alongside a team of adult haematology psychologists and within the well-established haematology MDT team who have recently been awarded specialist haemoglobinopathy team status. We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled psychologist who can draw on strong communication and team-working skills to work with Haematology colleagues and other clinicians to address barriers to equitable healthcare and support service users to live better with their physical health conditions. The psychologist will work creatively to proactively engage clients and their families, drawing on a range of individual and group work approaches alongside coordinating client co-production projects to enhance user engagement. The post-holder will also be based within the Clinical Health Psychologyteam which supports regular opportunities for team learning and offers a variety of CPD opportunities. The teams value and celebrate diversity and welcome candidates from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Main duties of the job
This senior role involves leading the psychology service for children and young people with Sickle Cell disease and Thalassaemia under the Whittington Health Haemoglobinopathies services. The postholder will work closely with Haematology clinicians to support the Trust’s targets of integrated care by mitigating the impact of and improving adjustment to chronic ill health. The psychologist will be able to work independently and flexibly, providing specialist psychological assessment, clinical formulation, cognitive screening, intervention and management recommendations to patients, families and other staff across inpatient, outpatient and community settings. The role invites a proactive approach to patient care, where the postholder can take the initiative in working creatively with service users and colleagues. This includes facilitating group interventions, drawing on a range of approaches (e.g. systemic, narrative, CBT, ACT) to engage service users to help build their coping resources and support networks as well as to upskill Trust-wide clinicians to address barriers to optimum healthcare for this patient group. The post involves offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to highly skilled non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures; using research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Working for our organisation
At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL
- To provide specialist psychological assessments using interview, formal psychometric, neuropsychological and other assessment methods as appropriate, for clients referred from Whittington Health paediatric Haematology services.
- To formulate and provide specialist psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients, working with carers and significant others as needed, using a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches.
- To manage individual caseload autonomously and professionally.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, psychosocial and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans and to make appropriate referrals onwards as necessary.
- To devise and deliver group-based interventions, leading in the development and provision of psychoeducational and other groups as needed.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
- To work closely and communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of effective and evidence-based interventions.
- To undertake complex 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 attend and contribute to referral, multidisciplinary and service operational meetings. To maximize opportunities for mutual learning with MDT colleagues to inform clinical work.
- To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies within and outside of the NHS, in the care provided to clients.
- TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To contribute to the teaching and training of non-psychology staff in psychological skills as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to other health and social care staff working with the client group, where appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision and leadership to junior qualified psychologists, trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists where required.
- To participate in an agreed programme of post-qualification training and professional development towards developing advanced knowledge and practice.
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and clinical supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work as appropriate.
- To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or other applied psychologists, as appropriate.
- To facilitate reflective practice sessions for the paediatric Haematology teams, including working with challenging cases, as needed and requested.
- To contribute through consultation and training to the psychological understanding and ways of workings of other multidisciplinary and multi-professional teams within the service.
- MANAGEMENT, RECRUITMENT, POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
- To use specialist knowledge, experience and skills to support the development of the service, to provide a key role in psychological aspects of service development across Whittington Health haematology and beyond and to provide a key role in better meeting the psychological needs of patients across Whittington Health.
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the Haematology teams’ operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the haemoglobinopathy services where psychological and/or organisational matters are relevant.
- To manage junior and assistant psychologists within the service and in training posts within the framework of the team and service's policies and procedures.
- To be involved in the short listing and interviewing of psychological staff as appropriate.
- To be an active participant in all multi-disciplinary forums related to the delivery of haematology psychology services g. MDTMs, clinical forums, referral meetings, case discussions and research meetings.
- To share the preparation and chairing of key meetings within the Haematology Psychology and Clinical Health Psychology Services in agreement with the CHP Service Lead.
- RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION
- To bring doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work, group work and work with other team members.
- To lead on and regularly engage in audit, research and service evaluation activities relevant to service and patient needs.
- To contribute to the clinical literature and research knowledge regarding the psychological needs and appropriate support of people living with haemoglobinopathies and attending haemoglobinopathy services.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the HCPC.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
Experience
- Completion of substantial post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical health psychology experience working with clients in the area of medicine or surgery or a related client group.
- Experience of working as a psychologist within an NHS physical health multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with children and young people with physical health challenges
Knowledge
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with physical health conditions.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with physical health conditions.
Skills and abilities
- 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
In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4-6 weeks of the closing date please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions, when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. We are an employer committed to Equal Opportunities and Diversity, with a range of family friendly policies.
For more information please go to Camden & Islington NHS FT website.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Name Sarah Lunn Job title Head of Clinical Health Psychology Email address [email protected] Telephone number 07557 481 064 Additional information
For any question please contact the following:
Dr Sarah Lunn
Clinical Health Psychology lead
[email protected]
Tel: 07557 481 064
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