Job summary
- Main area
- Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 0.6 session per week
- Job ref
- 196-LIS8392
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Evelina London Children's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 p.a. Inclusive of HCA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/05/2024
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist (Endocrinology)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are delighted to be recruiting to the post of Practitioner Psychologist in the Paediatric Psychology Service at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, working within Children’s Endocrine Services (Band 8a, 0.6WTE, fixed term for 1 year). This is an exciting post providing a wide variety of experiences.
We are looking for a motivated psychologist with an interest in working with children, young people and families with complex health conditions experiencing associated psychological distress or difficulties, as well as in working with professional colleagues in a collaborative manner to provide high quality holistic care.
We would be delighted to share more about the post. For further information or an informal discussion please contact Dr Jonathan Gibbins, Lead Clinical Psychologist for Paediatric Endocrinology, on [email protected]
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work within the Paediatric Endocrinology multidisciplinary team providing care for children and young people with endocrine conditions, such as klinefelter syndrome, Turner’s syndrome and Prada-Willi syndrome. The role is a varied one, with opportunity for direct therapeutic intervention, joint MDT clinics, as well as group work. There is as an important component of MDT working, liaison and consultation.
The post sits within Paediatric Psychology Services, which offers good opportunities for collaborative working, audit, research, teaching and training. We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings and developments. Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include but do not stop with; journal club, reflective practice groups, and peer supervision. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals–Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield–as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients as well as a full range of local hospital and community services. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and –as part of King’s Health Partners– we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs. We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To develop, deliver and lead a high quality, sustainable, evidence based cohesive psychological service to children and young people referred to the endocrinology service within the Evelina Children’s Hospital, from diagnosis to transition to adult services. This includes offering highly skilled psychological assessments of children and young people presenting with a wide range of psychological difficulties. Development of psychological formulations based on a range of models to meet the needs of this client group. To offer evidence-based psychological treatment and/or management of complex clients’ behavioural, emotional or psychosocial difficulties within at least two psychological models and frameworks.
To utilise a wide range of assessment and monitoring methods including psychometric measures and validated tests, and to select, administer and interpret test results
See job description for more information
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology, educational psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring across at least 2 populations utilising at least 2 therapeutic models including CBT.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Expertise working with a wide variety of client groups, and across the full range of clinical severity. Including work with parents and carers
- Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions using evidence based psychological approaches
Desirable criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients with long terms medical conditions presentations problems and a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
- Ability to communicate at both a written and oral level, imparting complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, and carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS
- Ability to translate and integrate evidence based research/guidelines into the development of a pathway of care.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group
- Must be capable of identifying and employing, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive situations and challenging behaviour.
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for people with a complex interplay complex health presentation mental health difficulties
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
- Jonathan Gibbins
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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