Paediatric Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

Part time 30 hours per week

Location: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital

Role Description:

• Are you an experienced and enthusiastic clinical psychologist looking for flexible working whilst still receiving outstanding development? We are seeking to recruit a practitioner psychologist to join our small, friendly and highly valued paediatric psychology team.
• We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible individual who is interested in developing effective, innovative, efficient services with good quality outcomes for children, young people and their families living with chronic health conditions, to improve their quality of life and well-being.

• The successful candidate will provide evidence-based psychological interventions to children and young people referred with a broad range of physical health conditions including; cystic fibrosis, respiratory, cardiac, epilepsy, oncology, allergies, chronic pain, and persistent physical symptom presentations. We provide outpatient assessment and therapy and some inpatient input.

• This is a fixed term (12 months), 30 hours hours per week, part-time band 8a position based at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, (with some occasional cross-site working for the Trust).

Main duties of the job

To work as an autonomous practitioner providing a high quality, specialist paediatric psychology service to children, young people, their families or carers. The role is to provide interventions for the general paediatric psychology provision for child health.

To support psychological practice within the multidisciplinary paediatric team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to trainee, junior psychologists and other staff. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Paediatric Psychology team.

Working for our organisation

Who we are:

We are a dynamic and friendly psychology team who value patient centred care. We are enthusiastic about innovative, flexible and creative approaches to therapy and increasing access to evidence-based psychological support for children and young people with medical conditions.

We have developed good links with the D. Clin course at the University of Southampton, whose trainees come on placement with us.

About the trust:

The vision at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to provide outstanding care for every patient. We serve a population of nearly 600,000 people across Hampshire and West Berkshire as well as some people who access our specialist services from across the country.

Created in January 2012 the Foundation Trust prioritises the provision of exceptional, compassionate, care delivered by the valued staff working in a culture of collaboration and mutual respect. HHFT employ more than 6,000 staff and our turnover in 2018/19 was £424million.

Four core values (CARE) Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Encourage. These are in place to support our four clear objectives, provide outstanding care of patients, empowering all members of staff, sustainable growth and innovating for the future.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

• To provide a high-quality specialist paediatric psychology service to children, young people, their families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and Trust care pathways. Offering interventions in a range of formats; individual, family and groups.
• To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
• To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues. To analyse and interpret highly complex assessment findings, feedback assessment findings to children, young people and their families, give psychological recommendations to parents/carers and other professionals, formulate and implement formal clinical recommendations and treatment interventions and complete professional reports. This will involve regularly communicating highly complex and sensitive information.
• To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate.
• To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
  • To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about clinical psychology issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctorate (or equivalent) in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

HCPC Registration

Essential criteria

• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist

Desirable criteria

• eligible for HCPC registration once doctorate completed

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience working as a qualified psychologist with children and young people

Desirable criteria

• Significant experience working in a paediatric healthcare setting
• Experience working in an acute healthcare setting

Post qualification training or service development

Essential criteria

• Completed CPD in relevant area, e.g. specialist therapy

Desirable criteria

• Participation in service development post- qualification

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
• We believe that using technology wisely reflects strong time management and a commitment to innovation. However, it's essential to personalise your recruitment application to showcase your unique skills and experiences. Over-reliance on generic, AI-generated content may result in rejection if multiple candidates submit applications with similar language or structure. In such cases, recruiting managers may reach out for further clarity where applications appear consistent with others, to better understand your individual strengths.

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