Principal Clinical Psychologist, Complex Presentations - University Hospitals Bristol

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Job overview

We are looking for thoughtful, compassionate and innovative highly specialist (Principal) Clinical Psychologist with expertise in health care provision for children and young people with Complex Presentations. This leader would be at the forefront of the NHS Children and Young People Gender Service (South West) within the governance structure of the service and Psychological Health Services as part of an Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to develop, deliver and evaluate specified services provided by a range of clinicians and health professionals.

Provision will include clinical services, research and quality improvement including dissemination, and training and consultation to other partner services and agencies. The clinicians also work via Psychological Health Services to provide complex case input to other paediatric services.

Main duties of the job

Highly Specialist clinical assessment and intervention, and leadership, to ensure the systematic provision of a psychology service to the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service (South West)

Training, clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist within the CYP Gender Service

Joint working, consultation, training and service development activities

Research relating to service delivery

Management and supervision of staff

Working for our organisation

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Aptitudes

• Advanced communication skills. The ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from staff and organisations in a culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations
• This will include the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner
• Ability to endure personal and professional challenge including media scrutiny

Knowledge and Experience

• Post qualification experience of working as a specialist practitioner clinical psychologist providing direct clinical work, psychological consultation, case management
• Post qualification experience of working as a specialist practitioner clinical psychologist
• Formal teaching / presentation sessions to health and other professionals
• Demonstrable knowledge of legislation and guidance pertaining to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, consent, confidentiality and standards of psychological care within relevant NICE
• Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment relevant to CYP with complex presentations
• Experience working with health and social care teams in the context of providing supervision, reflective practice or team development work
• Experience of proposing and implementing providing transformational projects in a health care context

• Record of publications in either peer reviewed, academic or professional journals/books

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to generate systemic and individual psychological formulations and triage/deliver brief interventions based on applying psychological theories and models to the complex information generated by the patient and systems as appropriate
• Advanced communication skills with the ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from patients and their families in a developmentally and culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations. Including the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner.
• Ability to prioritise and manage available time for clinical, managerial and professional activities effectively and safely
• Able to travel as required
• Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
• Ability to access, record and manage information and data pertaining to the work undertaken in notes, data bases and electronic records as required

Qualifications and Training

• Doctorate in clinical psychology/counselling psychology or equivalent
• Current registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council
• Training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists / other staff

• Management/leadership training

• As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
• The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
• UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
• To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

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