Job summary
Come and join our well-established and supportive Clinical Health Psychology service, providing a psychology service to the Paediatric Diabetes team (with some time allocated for the Paediatric Feeding Clinic). We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Practitioner Psychologist with prior experience working with children and families and an interest in working within a physical health setting.
This post will involve face-to-face work with children and families, offered at our Warwick Hospital and Stratford Healthcare bases. There are also opportunities for audit, research, teaching and consultation with the wider Paediatric Diabetes team. This post has recently increased in banding from Band 8A to Band 8B, reflecting both a recognition of the value of the role and the desire to improve services for children and families in this area - it will be part of the work to engage with other services. Supervision and support will be provided by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and as part of the wider Clinical Health Psychology service, there are further opportunities for specialist supervision. We also offer peer support and continuing professional development and we have strong links to local doctoral training courses in Clinical Psychology, offering specialist placements across a range of clinical health psychology areas.
Main duties of the job
To lead on the development of the paediatric psychology provision for children and young people and their families within the speciality. To provide highly specialised and evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation and intervention (to include provision of psychological therapy as well as programmes of care and advice such as groups and workshops etc.) to children and young people and their families or carers within the speciality. To evaluate the psychological work and produce service reviews. To provide highly specialised advice to other medical professions including psychiatrists, paediatricians, GP's and healthcare staff. To provide specialist advice and consultation, as appropriate on the children and young people's' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues (e.g. education and social care) and to other, non-professional carers. To provide clinical supervision and line management to psychologist colleagues as needed. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To act as a specialist psychological resource to this particular group of paediatric community, and to develop and implement audit and research programmes. To propose, implement and evaluate policy and service development changes which will impact across the whole range of professions and services to which clinical psychology consults.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Experience of working as a qualified Clinical OR Counselling Psychologist for a minimum of 5 years post qualification within Children/Young Peoples mental health and/or paediatric services. Desirable
Experience of working as a qualified Clinical OR Counselling Psychologist with severe and complex physical health problems and chronic conditions. Qualifications
Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist Eligibility for Membership of Division of Clinical or Counselling Psychology The above supplemented by further specialist courses, clinical supervision and further specialist training and experience Desirable
Post qualifying training in two or more distinct psychological therapies. Skills
Essential
Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of developmental psychology, medical and genetic conditions in childhood. Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with children and families. Personal Qualities
Essential
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. To demonstrate the ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team and an awareness of the importance of this aspect of the role in producing effective outcomes for patients. Other
Essential
Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively. Able to sit for extended periods of time Intense concentration. Frequently deals with highly distressing or emotional circumstances. Risk of exposure to verbal and physical aggression. Accountable for own professional actions, working in line with professional ethics and Trust policies. Desirable
Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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Come and join our well-established and supportive Clinical Health Psychology service, providing a psychology service to the Paediatric Diabetes team (with some time allocated for the Paediatric Feeding Clinic). We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Practitioner Psychologist with prior experience working with children and families and an interest in working within a physical health setting.
This post will involve face-to-face work with children and families, offered at our Warwick Hospital and Stratford Healthcare bases. There are also opportunities for audit, research, teaching and consultation with the wider Paediatric Diabetes team. This post has recently increased in banding from Band 8A to Band 8B, reflecting both a recognition of the value of the role and the desire to improve services for children and families in this area - it will be part of the work to engage with other services. Supervision and support will be provided by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and as part of the wider Clinical Health Psychology service, there are further opportunities for specialist supervision. We also offer peer support and continuing professional development and we have strong links to local doctoral training courses in Clinical Psychology, offering specialist placements across a range of clinical health psychology areas.
Main duties of the job
To lead on the development of the paediatric psychology provision for children and young people and their families within the speciality. To provide highly specialised and evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation and intervention (to include provision of psychological therapy as well as programmes of care and advice such as groups and workshops etc.) to children and young people and their families or carers within the speciality. To evaluate the psychological work and produce service reviews. To provide highly specialised advice to other medical professions including psychiatrists, paediatricians, GP's and healthcare staff. To provide specialist advice and consultation, as appropriate on the children and young people's' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues (e.g. education and social care) and to other, non-professional carers. To provide clinical supervision and line management to psychologist colleagues as needed. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To act as a specialist psychological resource to this particular group of paediatric community, and to develop and implement audit and research programmes. To propose, implement and evaluate policy and service development changes which will impact across the whole range of professions and services to which clinical psychology consults.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Experience of working as a qualified Clinical OR Counselling Psychologist for a minimum of 5 years post qualification within Children/Young Peoples mental health and/or paediatric services. Desirable
Experience of working as a qualified Clinical OR Counselling Psychologist with severe and complex physical health problems and chronic conditions. Qualifications
Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist Eligibility for Membership of Division of Clinical or Counselling Psychology The above supplemented by further specialist courses, clinical supervision and further specialist training and experience Desirable
Post qualifying training in two or more distinct psychological therapies. Skills
Essential
Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of developmental psychology, medical and genetic conditions in childhood. Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with children and families. Personal Qualities
Essential
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. To demonstrate the ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team and an awareness of the importance of this aspect of the role in producing effective outcomes for patients. Other
Essential
Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively. Able to sit for extended periods of time Intense concentration. Frequently deals with highly distressing or emotional circumstances. Risk of exposure to verbal and physical aggression. Accountable for own professional actions, working in line with professional ethics and Trust policies. Desirable
Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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