Principal Paediatric Clinical Counselling Psychologist Diabetes Cancer

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professionalresponsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.

2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence based psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological distress, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients difficulties.

3. To be responsible for implementing a range of complex psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

4. To evaluate and make complex 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.

5. To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues relating to paediatric diabetes and cancer at a high level of professional expertise to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with the service users, across a range of agencies/settings as appropriate.

6. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to benefit all children and young people seen within the two services.

7. To undertake highly 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, including assessments of individuals who are frequently aggressive.

8. To provide specialist psychological advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other professionals in order to develop a psychological understanding on the basis of which to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based interventions for clients with complex needs.

9. To be responsible for the professional supervision and development of trainee clinical psychologists in the service.

10. To assess the need for further training and access CPD when necessary.

11. To lead on local and national initiatives relevant to psychology.

12. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care to the MDTs and other relevant organisations.

13. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of

practice, through active participation in internal and external continuing professional development training and development programmes, in consultation with management.

14. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner.

15. Take part in regular professional and managerial supervision and appraisal and maintain an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.

16. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the HCPC and Trust policies and procedures.

17. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

18. To participate fully in multidisciplinary team meeting and activities as appropriate.

19. To attend case conferences, reviews and other meetings as appropriate.

20. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

21. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychology and/or organisational matters need addressing.

22. To work with team/service lead on service policy development and review.

23. To make informed comment on local and divisional policy affecting service development.

24. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of their psychological practice within the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including psychometric assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology models.
• Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people.

Desirable

• Post qualification training in supervision.
• Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in leadership or management.

Experience and knowledge

Essential

• Experience of using evidence-based therapy with children and adolescents, including group work.
• Experience of leadership within psychological settings.
• Experience of and skills within service quality monitoring i.e. clinical, audit, evaluative research etc.

Desirable

• Post qualification experience of working within the fields of both paediatric diabetes and paediatric oncology.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Great Western Hospital

The Great Western Hospital

Swindon

SN3 6BB

Employer's website

https://www.gwh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)