Lead Practitioner Psychologist GSTT Infected Blood Psychology Service
A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting and important opportunity to set up, lead and provide the GSTT Infected Blood Psychological Service (IBPS) which is based within the GSTT Haemophilia Centre. We welcome applications from HCPC registered Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologists with substantial post-qualification experience relevant to this context.
We aim to attract a committed, diverse, and talented workforce who are passionate about delivering psychological care within an acute hospital setting and adapting approaches to meet the needs of our services and service users. In return, we offer a supportive, dynamic work setting where you can link with colleagues and develop your career.
The GSTT IBPS is one of several new services across England commissioned by NHS England (funded for 5 years initially) following the recent Infected Blood Inquiry with the aim to support patients and their families infected/affected by contaminated blood products.The GSTT IBPS comprises of 1.0 wte 8b Lead Practitioner Psychologist, 0.7 wte 8a Practitioner Psychologist and 0.8 wte Advanced Social Worker. The service provides multidisciplinary care for those infected and affected by contaminated blood products by: a) conducting outreach and psychosocial assessments led by a social worker; and b) providing psychological therapies.
It collaborates closely with its Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), while maintaining a distinct identity.
The main duties of the job are:- Lead on the implementation of the GSTT Infected Blood Psychological Service.
- Work with the consultant psychologist and relevant leads within the directorate to oversee and deliver/implement key tasks and promote good governance.
- Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, referrals and treatment to the service users as part of an MDT.
- Independently report and manage individual caseload and to support the GSTT Haemophilia Centre MDT based on workload capacity.
- Lead on the collection and analysis of data and to utilise research skills for audit, research and service development purposes.
- Support outreach and engagement efforts with the service beneficiaries.
- Supervise and manage prequalified/qualified psychologists
- Supervise, manage and oversee the contributions of other professionals (e.g. patient navigator/social worker, admin team) within their competencies as a psychologist and in conjunction with their professional leads and the Consultant Psychologist as required.
- Engage with the service’s supervision, training and education activities
- Contribute to the profession through attendance of Trust wide meetings as well as those regionally
- Routinely attend clinical and research meetings held by IBPS, GSTT Haemophilia Centre, HPS and GSTT Psychology
- Foster close collaborations with other regional providers of IBPS and with relevant third sector organisations.
GSTT is an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the communities it serves.We are committed to equity andwould particularly welcome applicants who can add to the diversity of the psychology service and who value working with diverse communities.As a flexible working organisation, we are open to discuss flexible working on appointment.
You willworkin a team which values your unique experience, ideas and interests. You will work as part of the wider IBPS and the GSTT Haemophilia Centre MDTs. You will be supervised and line managed by the Consultant Clinical/Health Psychologist in Haematology and have close links with the Haematology Psychology Service (HPS) which has been providing psychological support to patients with blood disorders and their families at GSTT for over 20 years.The HPS is comprised of Practitioner Psychologists at various stages in their career and provides regular placements for Doctoral clinical psychology trainees, MSC healthy psychology trainees and psychology undergraduates.The team has a strong ethos of supporting each other, with access to reflective practice, learning spaces and Trust wellbeing initiatives.We meet regularly with other psychologists across GSTT and are involved in Trust-wide initiatives.
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jan 2025