Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical psychology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 153-SU03055
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Dorset
- Town
- Bournemouth and Poole
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principle Clinical Psychologist Critical Care
Band 8b
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
The Critical Care Unit at UHD NHS Trust aims to provide the highest quality and best outcomes for patients being treated for and recovering from critical illness . As part of our continual development, we are expanding our multi-professional team to include Clinical Psychology in line with national guidelines (GPICS) and professional body recommendations. This will enable us to continue providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive care for acute treatment and rehabilitation from all aspects of critical illness.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop a new service working in a new purpose-built unit due to open in March 2025. You will work as part of the multidisciplinary intensive care team with the aim of setting up, developing, and providing the most up-to-date and evidence-based critical care service to meet the psychological and emotional needs of patients, as well as those of the staff who work in this challenging environment.
Specialist knowledge, experience and skills and personal qualities to fulfil the post: Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS or equivalence; HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist; post-doctoral training in a specialised area of practice relevant to rehabilitation of patients following critical illness; formal training or qualification in leadership and provision of clinical supervision; and excellent team working and development skills.
Base Location Poole and Bournemouth
Main duties of the job
To work with the multi-professional critical care and rehabilitation teams to develop and implement an evidentially underpinned and clinically effective Psychology pathway and service to meet the needs of patients, relatives, and staff.
To include: identifying patients at risk of or affected by psychological morbidity such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress associated with or exacerbated by their critical illness or ICU admission; conducting comprehensive psychological assessments of highly complex patients in hospital and at follow-up, incorporating psychological and neurobiological data as appropriate; providing detailed formulations and advice to patients, relatives and the wider multi-professional team; planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions to maximise outcomes; providing ongoing education and training for clinicians, nurses and allied health professionals and act as a resource for other professionals; directly supporting staff and colleagues in dealing with the stressors and psychological consequences of working in a challenging healthcare environment; linking as appropriate with other agencies and/or external services related to patient’s ongoing care post discharge; and designing and implementing systems and processes to continuously measure impact and outcomes of the service.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
There is a planned move for this service anticipated during 2025, when this role and base of work will relocate to Royal Bournemouth Hospital. Upon relocation of the role/service, excess mileage allowance / reimbursement will not apply, and any travel between the postholder’s home and work base will be classified as a commute. Any other changes unrelated to this, will be handled in line with Trust/National terms and conditions.
Initially you will work across our two sites with a view to single site working in 2025.
Interview Date: TBC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work together with the Critical Care follow up and rehabilitation team to establish a Critical
Care specific psychology service for patients, relatives and staff.
· To undertake psychological assessment, and provide highly specialised, evidence based
psychological interventions in individual, family or group format
· To work alongside the critical care follow up nurses and consultants and to attend follow up
clinics; to help identify patients and relatives that may benefit from psychological interventions
and to provide these in separate psychology clinics
· To identify and treat inpatients in critical care that may benefit from acute psychological
interventions, e.g. anxiety, panic attacks, depression, intermittent hallucinations
· To work closely with the critical care multi-disciplinary team, give advice and help guide
patients’ recovery and rehabilitation
· To work closely with and support all members of staff in the Critical Care Units; this includes
holding debrief sessions after potentially traumatic events, wellbeing sessions and providing
psychological interventions for groups and individuals
· To provide teaching to non-psychologist members of staff
· To help create individual de-escalation plans for inpatients whose behaviour is challenging for
staff
· To liaise with other critical care psychologists locally, regionally and nationally for professional
development and to help develop the service further
· To provide supervision for less experienced psychologists where appropriate, including
undergraduate and postgraduate psychology students during their placement, assistant and trainee psychologists, and qualified psychologist · To collect data and organise feedback to evaluate and audit the psychology service · To contribute to research
Person specification
Technical Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify and pioritise appropriate areas for service improvement and to design, plan and delver these improvements
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage the delivery of a service or part of a service, balancingthe priorities of quality and resource capacity
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or applied psychology ( or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
Desirable criteria
- Pre or post-qualification training and qualifications in leadership, teaching, clinical supervision, and/or research.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Application of Specialist psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading or participating in regular reflective practice.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ruth Dodgson
- Job title
- Matron in Critical Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 0195423
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