Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

To work together with the established 8b in paediatric haematology to develop further the services available to young people and their families living with sickle cell

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to patients being seen within the Paediatric Service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Working for our organisation

CNWL Paediatric Psychology is a well established, thriving and developing section providing psychological services across seven hospitals in north west London. We are supported by being employed in a mental health trust with excellent CPD to bring innovative and flexible ways of delivering psychological pathways into primarily physical health settings.

Positive working relationships with the services we are embedded in are supported at all levels.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main focus of the post will be to provide input to the haematology service for children living with Sickle Cell, both inpatients and outpatient where you will be working as an embedded member of the multidisciplinary team. You will contribute to the wider team of clinical psychologists working in paediatrics utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research across the areas served by the paediatric psychology service.

For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.

Person specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist-domain of clinical psychology

• Training and qualifications in a relevant field of applied psychology/research methodology.

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including child, young people and their families.

• Pre and/or post qualification experience of working in a paediatric psychology team
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervising

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups

OTHER

• 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.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

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