Job summary
We are delighted to be recruiting to the post of PractitionerPsychologist in Paediatric Psychology at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. (Band 8a, 0.8WTE). This is an exciting post providing a wide variety of experiences across a number of medical specialties.
The post-holder will be based within the diverse and welcoming Paediatric Psychology service at the Evelina London (Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust), with the post being split across the Renal & Urology service (0.4WTE) and our Non-Embedded Specialities Team (NEST) (0.4WTE).
We are looking for a motivated psychologist with an interest in working with children, young people and families with complex health conditions experiencing associated psychological distress or difficulties, as well as in working with professional colleagues in a collaborative manner to provide high quality holistic care.
We would be delighted to share more about the post. For further information please contact Dr Sophie Dewar (Lead Practitioner Psychologist, NEST sophie.dewar3@nhs.net) or Dr Stacie Bowden (Lead Practitioner Psychologist in Renal and Urology stacie.bowden3@nhs.net).
Main duties of the job
In both sides of this role psychology provision is offered to families on an in- and an out-patient basis. The post holder will provide individual work with young people and families as well as group work and broader MDT liaison and consultation.
The Renal & Urology service offers a multi-disciplinary integrated package of care for young people referred. The post holder will be required to work as a core team member, involved in clinics, group interventions and 1:1 psychology provision, as well as offering case consultation and liaison.
Within NEST you will be joining a team within Paediatric Psychology who provide input across a wide range of medical teams within the Evelina London, e.g. general paediatrics, orthopaedics, haematology, and surgery. This requires working with a broad range of experiences across specialties, and will also include a significant element of MDT liaison and consultation.
Being within the Paediatric Psychology Service offers good opportunities for collaborative working with other team members, audit & research, teaching and training. We meet regularlyas a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings and developments across our diverse services. Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; journal club, reflective practice groups, peer supervision as well as SIG networks.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 the attached job description and Person Specification form for full information and details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and Person Specification form for full information and details.
Person Specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology, educational psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring across at least 2 populations utilising at least 2 therapeutic models including CBT.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Expertise working with a wide variety of client groups, and across the full range of clinical severity. Including work with parents and carers
- Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions using evidence based psychological approaches
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients with long terms medical conditions presentations problems and a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
- Ability to communicate at both a written and oral level, imparting complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, and carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS
- Ability to translate and integrate evidence based research/guidelines into the development of a pathway of care.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group
- Must be capable of identifying and employing, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive situations and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for people with a complex interplay complex health presentation mental health difficulties
Person Specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology, educational psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring across at least 2 populations utilising at least 2 therapeutic models including CBT.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Expertise working with a wide variety of client groups, and across the full range of clinical severity. Including work with parents and carers
- Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions using evidence based psychological approaches
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients with long terms medical conditions presentations problems and a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
- Ability to communicate at both a written and oral level, imparting complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, and carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS
- Ability to translate and integrate evidence based research/guidelines into the development of a pathway of care.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group
- Must be capable of identifying and employing, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive situations and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for people with a complex interplay complex health presentation mental health difficulties
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).
