Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist in Renal Medicine
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £66,718 - £76,271 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW3 2QG |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6287680/391-RFL-6287680 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Would you like to join our integrated and highly valued renal health and counselling psychology team? Our current psychologist is emigrating and we’re looking for someone tosupport the delivery of our renal psychology service in a manner consistent with the World Class Care values and objectives of our Royal Free Hospital Trust.
You will provide clinical health psychology input to inpatients and outpatients with kidney disease, providing highly specialist psychological kidney transplant and donor assessments, formulation and treatments, complex risk assessments and consultation on patients’ psychological care. You will deliver this to non-psychologist colleagues whilst working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
This post is cross-site and the post-holder will be based at the Royal Free Hospital but is required to travel to Edgware and Barnet dialysis units.
You will clinically support new and ongoing renal department initiatives and wider renal multi-disciplinary teams to deliver integrated care, including consultation and training concerning psychological aspects of patient care and management along patient pathways, and ensure that psychological aspects are addressed in audit, research and service development.
You will offer psychoeducation interventions to support the prevention and reduction in kidney disease progression in addition to psychologically-informed teaching and training to renal nursing, medical and other multidisciplinary teams and contribute to the wider activities and supervision responsibilities of the trust’s Psychological Therapists, Neuropsychologists and Counsellors’ (PTNC) group.
You will demonstrate and deliver trauma informed practice and support renal nursing and medical staff to provide excellent patient care through reflective practice and psychological teaching to promote the identification and recognition of psychological distress in patients with kidney disease.
As a clinician you will be embedded within your clinical speciality and also belong to a group of over 40 psychological therapies, neuropsychology and counselling (PTNC) staff who work within a variety of medical specialities. These include Cancer & Palliative Care, Cardiology, Dermatology, Diabetes, Elderly Care, Hepatology, Haemophilia, HIV, ICU, Immunology and Rare Disease, Nephrology, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Respiratory, and Women’s Health.
To provide expertise in a highly specialist clinical area in accordance with a job plan that contributes to the assessment and treatment of patients referred to the RHCP service fromthe renal dialysis, transplantation, low clearance (advanced kidney care), renal inpatient, and other renal sub-specialties.
To provide highly specialist, culturally sensitive biopsychosocial assessments, clinical health formulation and routine transplant assessments of patients with renal disease, co-morbid physical health conditions and associated psychological distress.
To provide psychological reports, including relevant clinical health psychology formulation, opinion and evidence-based interventions in order to inform referrers, wider MDT members and patients, where appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024
Would you like to join our integrated and highly valued renal health and counselling psychology team? Our current psychologist is emigrating and we’re looking for someone tosupport the delivery of our renal psychology service in a manner consistent with the World Class Care values and objectives of our Royal Free Hospital Trust.
You will provide clinical health psychology input to inpatients and outpatients with kidney disease, providing highly specialist psychological kidney transplant and donor assessments, formulation and treatments, complex risk assessments and consultation on patients’ psychological care. You will deliver this to non-psychologist colleagues whilst working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
This post is cross-site and the post-holder will be based at the Royal Free Hospital but is required to travel to Edgware and Barnet dialysis units.
You will clinically support new and ongoing renal department initiatives and wider renal multi-disciplinary teams to deliver integrated care, including consultation and training concerning psychological aspects of patient care and management along patient pathways, and ensure that psychological aspects are addressed in audit, research and service development.
You will offer psychoeducation interventions to support the prevention and reduction in kidney disease progression in addition to psychologically-informed teaching and training to renal nursing, medical and other multidisciplinary teams and contribute to the wider activities and supervision responsibilities of the trust’s Psychological Therapists, Neuropsychologists and Counsellors’ (PTNC) group.
You will demonstrate and deliver trauma informed practice and support renal nursing and medical staff to provide excellent patient care through reflective practice and psychological teaching to promote the identification and recognition of psychological distress in patients with kidney disease.
As a clinician you will be embedded within your clinical speciality and also belong to a group of over 40 psychological therapies, neuropsychology and counselling (PTNC) staff who work within a variety of medical specialities. These include Cancer & Palliative Care, Cardiology, Dermatology, Diabetes, Elderly Care, Hepatology, Haemophilia, HIV, ICU, Immunology and Rare Disease, Nephrology, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Respiratory, and Women’s Health.
To provide expertise in a highly specialist clinical area in accordance with a job plan that contributes to the assessment and treatment of patients referred to the RHCP service fromthe renal dialysis, transplantation, low clearance (advanced kidney care), renal inpatient, and other renal sub-specialties.
To provide highly specialist, culturally sensitive biopsychosocial assessments, clinical health formulation and routine transplant assessments of patients with renal disease, co-morbid physical health conditions and associated psychological distress.
To provide psychological reports, including relevant clinical health psychology formulation, opinion and evidence-based interventions in order to inform referrers, wider MDT members and patients, where appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024