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Psychologist
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NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Cyfnod Penodol: 24 mis (FTC period: 15/07/24 - 14/07/26)
Oriau
Rhan-amser - 18.75 awr yr wythnos (Thurs 9am - 12.45pm (wfh), Fri 9am to 5pm (on site) with occasional earlier starts and later finishes as service requires (time would be taken back); other day to be agreed)
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196-LIS8425
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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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NHS
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Across site Guys Hospital/ St Thomas' Hospital
Tref
London
Cyflog
£51,488 - £57,802 p.a. inc. HCA (pro rata)
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22/05/2024 23:59
Dyddiad y cyfweliad
06/06/2024

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Practitioner Psychologist in Adult Haematology

NHS AfC: Band 7

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.



Trosolwg o'r swydd

Would you like to join a forward-thinking and supportive psychology team, who are integrated within a well-established Adult Haematology department? 

We have a vacancy for a part-time Band 7 HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist who has a doctoral degree or equivalent in clinical, counselling or health psychology.

This role is 0.5 wte (2.5 days/18.75 hrs), 24 month fixed-term (secondment cover) from 15/07/24 to 14/07/26.

You will be working in a team who values your unique experiences and interests, alongside Clinical and Health Psychologists and a Senior Assistant Psychologist. We provide regular placements for Doctoral Clinical Psychology trainees, MSc Health Psychology trainees and psychology undergraduates.

Our team strives to take a proactive, inclusive and reflexive approach to integrating psychological care into the treatment provided for people living with haematological conditions. We engage in regular reflective spaces, CPD and aim to continually learn about how to embed anti-discriminatory practices in our service delivery. We invite applicants who share this ethos and have a strong interest in the relationship between psychological and physical health and multidisciplinary working across inpatient and outpatient care.

We would particularly welcome applicants who can add to the diversity of the existing team and who value working with diverse communities. We strive to be as representative of the local population as much as possible.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Our mission is to be a visible, accessible, high quality service that takes a patient-centred, evidence-based, and needs-led approach to providing psychological support to adults with blood disorders and their families in inpatient and outpatient settings.

This varied role involves:

  • Triaging, assessing and providing therapy to outpatients, relating to the psychological aspects of living with their health condition(s).
  • Provide input into multidisciplinary team meetings, clinics and providing regular inpatient liaison and support to patients under the care of the haematology department.
  • Opportunities to supervise junior members of staff and be involved in larger projects such as audits and service development.
  • Opportunities to get involved in teaching and training events for other professions, to represent psychology and contribute psychological thinking into physical healthcare.
  • There is also access to a range of department wide and trust-wide learning opportunities and events to further develop your experiences of working within physical healthcare and GSTT.

We welcome applications from trainee psychologists who are in the process of completing training requirements and obtaining HCPC registration.  If HCPC registration has not been achieved by the time the post starts, candidates would start on B6 and move to B7 once conditions for that banding (including HCPC registration) have been achieved (providing this can be done within a reasonable and agreed time frame).

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Haematology Psychology Service (HPS) 

Since 1997 the HPS has provided psychological support to patients with blood disorders and their families at GSTT.  We are mainly located within the haematology department at Guy’s Hospital and are therefore well integrated within the multidisciplinary haematology teams.  We also provide some integrated care to the Centre for Haemophilia and Thrombosis at St Thomas’ Hospital.  We strive to be a visible, accessible, high quality service that takes a patient-centred, evidence-based, and needs-led approach.  

We see inpatients and outpatients and offer individual psychological therapy, group therapy/support, cognitive assessment, and joint multidisciplinary consultations.  We also work with staff (e.g. medical doctors and ward nurses) to support them in providing quality care.  
Other key activities include teaching, training, research, audit, and contributing to the development of psychology in haematology on a London-wide and national basis.  The HPS is led by the Consultant Clinical/Health Psychologist and comprises of one Band 8b, one Band 8a, two Band 7 Practitioner Psychologists, a Senior Assistant Psychologist, trainees and students. We meet regularly with other psychologists across GSTT and are involved in Trust-wide initiatives.

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See document attached for full Job Description

Job Summary

Under supervision of the senior practitioner psychologists, the post-holder will contribute to the ongoing development and delivery of a high quality Specialist Clinical Health Psychology Service for people aged 16 years and above with hereditary blood conditions (including sickle cell disorders and thalassaemia), people with acquired and inherited bleeding and clotting disorders (including haemophilia, antiphospholipid syndrome and thrombotic problems) and individuals who have been diagnosed with haematological cancers (myeloproliferative neoplasms) and other haematological conditions. The provision of evidenced-based, time-limited psychological interventions to promote psychological well-being and physical health is a key requirement.  

The post-holder will exercise autonomous professional responsibility for his/her own actions and will provide psychological assessment (and cognitive assessment according to competencies), therapeutic interventions, and psychosocial support to patients and their families (including 1-1 and groups), and play a role in the development of psychologically informed working practice within the areas. Group therapy support may occur on a weekly basis in the evening and the post-holder would take time back for this. 

The post holder is expected to collaborate with other members of the haematology psychology team and with the wider multi-professional haematology teams in order to achieve the service’s aims and to contribute to service developments in the area of understanding, evaluating, and managing people with haematological conditions. The post involves frequent staff consultation and team formulation in the context of complex client working. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. She/he will work autonomously within clearly defined policies and procedures of the Health Psychology Service, professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. 

Key Relationships 

The post holder will have day-to-day contact with patients, families, psychologists, trainees, assistant psychologists and placement students in the haematology psychology team.  They will work alongside and have regular clinical supervision with a senior Practitioner Psychologist within the team. They will also have access to the various peer supervision groups led by psychologists across the Trust. 

They will have regular contact with and the opportunity for joint work with all members of the multidisciplinary haematology teams such as consultant haematologists and clinical nurse specialists, and have contact with ward staff, the other medical specialities who contribute to the service, administrative, and clerical support staff. The post holder will also have contact with members of the GSTT (Adult and Paediatric) Psychology Service (clinical, health, and counselling psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists).  There will be less frequent contact with external organisations including representatives from NHS England, colleagues working in haematology within the UK and internationally, the charitable sector (e.g. Sickle Cell Society) and regulatory bodies such as CQC. 

Manyleb y person

Skills

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological, neuropsychological and behavioural assessment and intervention
  • A strong 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 undertake research according to needs of the service, bringing doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis, as appropriate for the field of clinical health psychology

Experience

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of adult patients with physical health problems
  • Experience of using evidence based psychological interventions for the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of psychological problems
  • Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
  • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
  • Experience of providing both group based and individual psychological interventions
  • Experience of teaching and training other professionals in psychological concepts
Meini prawf dymunol
  • Experience in the psychological management of haematological disorders, chronic pain
  • Experience of supervision of trainee/assistant psychologists/students

Knowledge/Qualifications

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Doctoral level qualification or its equivalent in clinical or health or counselling psychology as accredited by BPS
  • Knowledge of psychological interventions, application and supervision of others
  • Health And Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registration as Practitioner Psychologist or will do so by 31/12/24
Meini prawf dymunol
  • Specialist knowledge of the theory of specialised psychological therapies in specific areas of physical health such as haematology or chronic pain

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Heather Rawle
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Consultant Clinical & Health Psychologist
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