Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a practitioner psychologist, to join our multidisciplinary team in Paediatric Long-Covid (0.5WTE, band 8b). the post is fixed term until end of March 2026.
The long covid service delivers multidisciplinary consultation (with external agencies), assessment, and brief treatment for children and young people with post-covid presentations.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of the team, comprised of paediatricians, child and adolescent psychiatry, and AHP team members, to develop and deliver high quality clinical care. They will collaborate in the management of patients from referral, triage, assessment and intervention as appropriate. This post includes internal and external liaison with senior professionals and management so excellent communication skills are of benefit.
In addition to direct clinical work, the post holder will be responsible for the collation and management of outcome data, so an interest and experience in service development and Quality Improvement will be an asset.
The post holder will join a dynamic group of practitioner psychologists within Paediatric Psychology, at Evelina London. This role will include leadership responsibilities, delivering line management and supervision as required for other clinicians within the service.
Being within the Paediatric Psychology Service offers good opportunities for collaborative working with other team members, audit & research, teaching and training. We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings across our diverse services. Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; reflective practice groups, peer supervision as well as SIG networks across the South East and nationally. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
We have around 23,500 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Person Specification and Job Description.
Please contact Lisa Barkley for any questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Person Specification and Job Description.
Please contact Lisa Barkley for any questions.
Person Specification
skills and abilities
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by HCPC/BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year.
- Ability and skills to supervise and line manage junior clinical psychologists and clinical psychology trainees having completed the relevant training.
- Advanced practitioner skills in at least one model of psychological therapy (e.g. cognitive behaviour therapy).
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and interventions frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration, and which require making judgements involving highly complex facts/situations.
- Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information in a form that can be understood by young people, families, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Well-developed consultation skills to work with the multi-professional group and/or other professional groups in health and education.
- 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 work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, hold leadership roles and contribute to effective team functioning.
- Ability to undertake risk assessment of client in relation to self and others, and refer on to appropriate services as necessary.
Desirable
- Specialised skills in the selection, administration and interpretation of neuropsychological assessment.
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology related to children and young people with physical health problems and complex statistical analysis.
- Advanced knowledge of theory and practice of psychological therapies for physical health problems, child and adolescent mental health issues, and clinical psychometrics as applied to children and young people.
- Advanced knowledge of theory and practice of psychological therapies for physical health problems, child and adolescent mental health issues, and clinical psychometrics as applied to children and young people.
- Knowledge of the principles of psychometric and neuropsychological assessment.
- Highly specialist knowledge relevant to working with children and young people with a medical condition, generalizable to long-covid presentations and related issues.
- Advanced level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy relevant to children and young people with medical conditions and knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for them (one of these should be cognitive behaviour therapy).
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of the literature and issues associated with long-covid presentations in children and young people.
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment in the area of chronic and acute physical health problems and disability.
- Experience in the psychological management of physical problems in children and young people including highly specialist experience and knowledge of using cognitive behaviour and systemic techniques for assessment, formulation and treatment of children and young people with complex health problems.
- 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 frequently highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions
- Additional post graduate specialist training in area of working with children and young people with physical health problems. To include internal or external courses or conferences, e.g. specialist therapeutic approaches, neuropsychological testing, specific clinical populations, management, psychological treatment and interventions.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of consultation to and supervision of other staff.
- Experience of developing and providing teaching and training to psychologists and other professional groups.
- Experience of initiating and leading service development
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- Experience of developing and carrying out complex audit, research and service evaluation projects
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Clinical experience in the management pain and fatigue in children and young people.
- Experience of working with highly emotive and distressing problems (e.g. life-threatening and life-limiting medical conditions)
Qualification
Essential
- Good honours degree in psychology.
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those who trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS, including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro- psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and life span developmental psychology
- Registration with Health and Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology e.g. health psychology
- Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice (neuropsychology or CBT)
Person Specification
skills and abilities
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by HCPC/BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year.
- Ability and skills to supervise and line manage junior clinical psychologists and clinical psychology trainees having completed the relevant training.
- Advanced practitioner skills in at least one model of psychological therapy (e.g. cognitive behaviour therapy).
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and interventions frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration, and which require making judgements involving highly complex facts/situations.
- Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information in a form that can be understood by young people, families, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Well-developed consultation skills to work with the multi-professional group and/or other professional groups in health and education.
- 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 work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, hold leadership roles and contribute to effective team functioning.
- Ability to undertake risk assessment of client in relation to self and others, and refer on to appropriate services as necessary.
Desirable
- Specialised skills in the selection, administration and interpretation of neuropsychological assessment.
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology related to children and young people with physical health problems and complex statistical analysis.
- Advanced knowledge of theory and practice of psychological therapies for physical health problems, child and adolescent mental health issues, and clinical psychometrics as applied to children and young people.
- Advanced knowledge of theory and practice of psychological therapies for physical health problems, child and adolescent mental health issues, and clinical psychometrics as applied to children and young people.
- Knowledge of the principles of psychometric and neuropsychological assessment.
- Highly specialist knowledge relevant to working with children and young people with a medical condition, generalizable to long-covid presentations and related issues.
- Advanced level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy relevant to children and young people with medical conditions and knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for them (one of these should be cognitive behaviour therapy).
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of the literature and issues associated with long-covid presentations in children and young people.
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment in the area of chronic and acute physical health problems and disability.
- Experience in the psychological management of physical problems in children and young people including highly specialist experience and knowledge of using cognitive behaviour and systemic techniques for assessment, formulation and treatment of children and young people with complex health problems.
- 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 frequently highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions
- Additional post graduate specialist training in area of working with children and young people with physical health problems. To include internal or external courses or conferences, e.g. specialist therapeutic approaches, neuropsychological testing, specific clinical populations, management, psychological treatment and interventions.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of consultation to and supervision of other staff.
- Experience of developing and providing teaching and training to psychologists and other professional groups.
- Experience of initiating and leading service development
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- Experience of developing and carrying out complex audit, research and service evaluation projects
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Clinical experience in the management pain and fatigue in children and young people.
- Experience of working with highly emotive and distressing problems (e.g. life-threatening and life-limiting medical conditions)
Qualification
Essential
- Good honours degree in psychology.
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those who trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS, including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro- psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and life span developmental psychology
- Registration with Health and Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology e.g. health psychology
- Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice (neuropsychology or CBT)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
