Job summary
An opportunity has arisen to join our team to offer high quality clinical psychology service within the children's community nursing service
You will work alongside our Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide psychological support and intervention for parents: to children and YP with a life limiting condition, their families and to staff within the team.
The Children's Community Nursing Team is a community based nursing team, travel across the county will be needed for this role.
Main duties of the job
The role will include:
- Providing a clinical psychology service to clients and their families within the Children's Community Nursing (CCN) Service, with a diagnosis of life limiting condition, and to staff within the team;
To exercise responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge of clients whose problems are managed as a psychologically based care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis;
To make highly skilled evaluations and 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 be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist 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;
About us
We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.
Person Specification
Education and Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology ( or equivalent for those qualified prior to 1996) as accredited by BPS and HCPC
- HCPC as a practitioner psychologist
- Experience of working with children, young people and families in a clinical, hospital or community setting.
- Experience of working with children, young people with severe and enduring illness and terminal illness and their families.
- Experience of working with and supporting staff groups working with children with severe and enduring illness, and children, young people with terminal illness.
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
- Evidence of continued professional development, as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable
- Experience of child liaison psychology
- Experience of working with adults/families around mental health and/or bereavement
- Qualification in Family Therapy at Master's Level
Skills
Essential
- Developed skills in working with people in extreme emotional distress.
- Skills and experience in working with staff who regularly deal with children with a terminal illness, and the parents of children with emotional illness, and the emotions generated by that context.
- Ability to analyse and evaluate interventions and to use a continuous feedback process to improve the quality of interventions delivered.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Person Specification
Education and Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology ( or equivalent for those qualified prior to 1996) as accredited by BPS and HCPC
- HCPC as a practitioner psychologist
- Experience of working with children, young people and families in a clinical, hospital or community setting.
- Experience of working with children, young people with severe and enduring illness and terminal illness and their families.
- Experience of working with and supporting staff groups working with children with severe and enduring illness, and children, young people with terminal illness.
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
- Evidence of continued professional development, as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable
- Experience of child liaison psychology
- Experience of working with adults/families around mental health and/or bereavement
- Qualification in Family Therapy at Master's Level
Skills
Essential
- Developed skills in working with people in extreme emotional distress.
- Skills and experience in working with staff who regularly deal with children with a terminal illness, and the parents of children with emotional illness, and the emotions generated by that context.
- Ability to analyse and evaluate interventions and to use a continuous feedback process to improve the quality of interventions delivered.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
