Principal Clinical Psychologist - Paediatrics
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £50,952.00 to £57,349.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £50952.00 - £57349.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Worcester, WR5 1DD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9365-24-0520 |
Summary
Job Purpose To provide a highly specialist physical health psychology service to the Childrens Diabetes and Cystic Fibrosis Service in Worcestershire, to address the psychological needs of children and young people and their families. To manage and hold clinical responsibility for a specialist caseload and provide highly specialist assessment and interventions focusing on identifying and treating psychological issues associated with diabetes and cystic fibrosis. To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training as appropriate to parents/carers and colleagues within the Service and to work effectively within the multi- disciplinary health team. To contribute to service evaluation, audit, research and policy development. To promote psychological thinking in collaboration with MDT colleagues. To provide clinical and/or research supervision to less experienced psychologists. Key Duties and Responsibilities The post holder will: Administrative 1. Be responsible for designing, developing and using appropriate clinical and administrative records in line with Trust policies and other professional guidelines, verifying the functionality of some, and auditing correct usage. 2. Coordinate and chair meetings, prepare agendas, check and ensure distribution of accurate minutes. Managerial 1. Develop the ability to lead in relation to the development and organisation of psychological interventions within a given clinical area, under the guidance and supervision of more senior psychology colleagues. 2. Manage the workload of trainee and assistant psychologists as required and contribute to their appraisal under the supervision of a more senior clinical psychologist. Clinical 1. Work as an independent and autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions. 2. Carry a defined caseload of patients who have a varying range of severity and complexity of psychological issues, and provide support to their families and carers, as appropriate. 3. Undertake the assessment, formulation, treatment and management of patients as required within the Service with a varying range of severity and complexity of psychological problems. In particular, patients with psychological conditions relating to the diagnosis and ongoing management of diabetes and CF, some of which may be highly specialised. Assessment and intervention to involve families and carers, as appropriate. 4. Use initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients and the Service. 5. Collaboratively evaluate the appropriateness of referrals from a number of sources; referrals to be accepted as resources permit. 6. Carry a caseload of appropriate size, complexity and severity, including patients whose problems may be complicated by biological, social, familiar, environmental and educational factors, physical ill-health or bereavement and may be presented in a challenging or distressed manner. 7. Provide specialised psychological therapies which require specialist post-qualification experience, supervision and training to acquire the necessary clinical and therapeutic skills and personal resources. 8. Provide psychological therapy, where appropriate, making use of a variety of psychological models, as appropriate, with individuals, families, parents and/or groups. 9. Collaborate on direct and indirect clinical casework with the Service MDT and staff of other agencies, to enhance the capacity of other professionals to carry out their responsibilities. 10. Promote excellent psychologically-informed practice by staff in the Service and provide clinical leadership to other professionals who practice psychological approaches. Promote a service consistent and compliant with the philosophy of person-centred and evidence based practice. 11. Undertake risk assessments and risk management of individuals presenting with risk of vulnerability or self-harm. Provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. 12. Select and provide specialised psychological assessments, including developmental, cognitive and psychometric assessments, which require training and expertise to acquire the necessary dexterity, accuracy and observational skills. Interpret complex psychological data from a variety of sources, including neuropsychological tests, psychometric tests, and self-report measures, rating scales, structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, their relatives and others involved in the patients care. 13. Adhere to appropriate confidentiality guidance from the Trust, the HCPC and the BPS with respect to considering issues of risk, supervision and safeguarding. Communication and Liaison 1. Communicate highly confidential and sensitive personal information, obtained through assessment, formulation, therapy and interventions, to the patients (children and young people) themselves and where appropriate their relatives, other professionals and others involved in their care. The information may be highly distressing and communications are to be in a skilled and sensitive manner, making judgements involving highly complex facts or situations concerning what information is to be shared, how and when to convey it in the best interests of the patient and having regard to issues of safeguarding, child protection, mental capacity and potential sensory and cultural barriers to communication. 2. To formulate and communicate sensitively psychological assessment findings and implement psychological treatment plans, individual, family or group interventions as appropriate. 3. Provide specialist advice and consultancy to the MDT, patients relatives, carers and other involved professionals from other agencies. 4. Raise awareness within the Service MDT of a psychological and systemic framework for thinking about illness and physical health. 5. Act as an expert professional resource for the Service and other health professionals. 6. Present and participate in relevant Service meetings and appropriate professional groups and meetings, as agreed with the Lead Psychologist. 7. Contribute to the effective working of the Service MDT in order to deliver comprehensive clinical care to families, children and young people, ensuring that psychological well- being is central to the planning and delivery of health care. 8. Maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues, local CAMHS teams and other local agencies. Analysis and Judgment 1. Provide formulations of the patients problems based upon analyses of complex information gained from multiple sources including assessment findings, psychological theory and a range of available psychological and other clinical information. 2. Exercise autonomous clinical responsibility for the development and implementation of psychological treatments, strategies, and interventions, adjusting and reformulating as appropriate on the basis of feedback. 3. Be able to make independent and autonomous clinical judgments on the way in which expected clinical outcomes are to be met using a variety of sources, including policy, professional guidelines, peers and colleagues within and outside the Service. 4. Provide a problem solving, trouble-shooting role in response to issues for which there is no documented or acceptable practice, drawing creatively upon psychological models, theories and approaches and research skills. Planning and Organisation 1. Plan own work. 2. Coordinate the use of tests, books and other equipment used by the post holder, psychology assistants, trainees and more junior psychologists, in collaboration with colleagues. Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment: As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel. If you have any queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via email robert.saunders1@nhs.net