Senior Clinical Psychologist, Paediatric Tics/Tourette's (Annex 21) - St Helens
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Job overview
To run an established tics and Tourette's clinic to the St Helens area for children and their parents, supporting the management of tics and Tourette's. Support will be provided by the Senior Clinical Psychologist who has led the clinic since 2022.
An opportunity has arisen for a secondment for an experienced or aspiring Senior Paediatric Clinical Psychologist to join the Tics and Tourette’s Service in St Helen’s.
You will be provided with training in behavioural therapy for tics, supervision from an experienced Paediatric Clinical Psychologist in the area and the opportunity to engage in peer supervision with other psychologists working in the tics service.You will join an aspiring expanding paediatric service, gain clinical experience in a specialised area enabling potential future opportunities.
This role would be ideal for Clinical Psychologists interested in specialising in paediatrics as in the future we hope there will be potential opportunities more broadly within the service.
This post may be offered under annex 21 terms and conditions.
Main duties of the job
KEY DUTIES- To be responsible for the systematic provision of highly specialist psychological clinic for children and young people with complex tic presentations, and their families/carers.
- To provide services that meet the agreed service priorities consonant with practitioner experience and expertise. Such services to include the development and implementation of highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention strategies including clinical casework and the provision of consultancy work generally for the assurance of quality in the use of psychological methods by other team members.
- The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers.
- The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:
o Promote safe practices
o Value the aims of service users
o Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
o Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
o Value social inclusion
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients.We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information, please see the attached job description.
Clinical Duties
To undertake specialised assessment, formulation, intervention, communication and reporting of sensitive clinical information related to paediatric tics and Tourette's, running a clinic one day per week for St Helens.
Ensure appropriate policies, procedures and rigorous governance processes are followed accordingly.
Ensure appropriate clinical supervision is received.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology and/or equivalent qualification and experience) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Qualification in research methodology and/or equivalent qualification and experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Doctoral level knowledge (or its equivalent) of research design and methodology, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- High-level knowledge of the theory of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Skills
Essential criteria- 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, complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
- High-level skills in the practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Other
Essential criteria- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Appreciation of the interface between personal and professional lives, high level of self-awareness and knowledge of principles of self-care
- Ability to assess and manage risk
- Ability to recognise and challenge age discrimination
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
- Demonstrate a commitment to respecting and displaying the Trust Values at all times
- Personal experience of coping with life stressors
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
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- All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
- There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
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At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.
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