Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 273-DC-6950-B
- Employer
- Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £13,343.60 - £15,254.20 Per Annum, Including HCAS. Pro Rata'd as Part Time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/05/2024
Employer heading
Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Band 8b
Moorfields - A global leader in Ophthalmology
We are Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Founded in 1804, Moorfields Eye Hospital is a world-class centre of excellence for eye health services, ophthalmic research, and education.
With more than 2,300 staff we are proud to be supported by one of the most diverse workforces in the NHS. Every year we treat more than 700,000 patients at City Road in central London and at our 22 satellites sites, and, in partnership with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre we lead one of the most impactful ophthalmic research programmes in the world.
We train many of the leading eye care clinicians in the UK and internationally and have a global reputation for quality and professionalism in ophthalmic care. In addition, we also operate commercial divisions that provide care to private patients in both London and the Middle East.
This is an exciting time to join Moorfields. The pandemic fast-tracked a huge amount of innovation which is changing the way we work and deliver care. Construction is under way on Oriel, our new eye care, research, and education centre being built in Camden. The new centre will be flexible and modern, enabling us to bring together healthcare, eye research and education under one roof for the first time.
If you want to be part delivering world class eye health services and you share our values: excellence, equity, and kindness, then we would love to hear from you!
Job overview
Are you a psychologist with an interest in supporting patients with complex long-term medical conditions? Are you keen to use your skills to lead and develop an emerging psychology service in a new field, as part of a friendly, close-knit and supportive MDT?
This is an exciting senior post embedding psychological care within our highly-specialist prosthetic cornea (osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, OOKP) service at our main site in City Road, central London. The postholder will assess patients who are suffering from end-stage corneal blindness and are being considered for surgical intervention aimed at restoring meaningful vision. The role also entails consulting with the multidisciplinary team in decision-making, preparation for surgery and post-surgical adjustment and adaptation.
Professional supervision and liaison will be provided by an experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychology Leadership Network based within the well-respected and established UCLH Clinical Health Psychology Services.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to give a 10-minute presentation to the interview panel titled: “A holistic approach to OOKP: what can a psychologist offer to the OOKP service to improve clinical outcomes, peer support, staff experience and our knowledge of the psychosocial impact of OOKP?”
This post is one day a week on Thursdays.
Main duties of the job
The role includes direct psychological consultation at three stages: pre-operative assessment, post-surgical follow-up and long-term follow-up. The psychologist is responsible for the assessment of new patients and provides a specialised service to allow preparation, supporting informed consent, optimisation for surgery and living successfully with OOKP.
The Principal Psychologist is part of a multidisciplinary team formed by ophthalmologists, maxillofacial surgeons, anaesthetists and a specialist nurse and needs to be proactive in liaising with other departments supporting multidisciplinary formulations drawing on a range of psychological knowledge and competencies to allow constant improvement of the service. They are also expected to participate and conduct research relevant to the areas of need served and provide advice to other staff undertaking research.
The Principle Psychologist should be highly skilled and senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with experience of working in various clinical health psychology services (across in-patient and out-patient settings) who can develop this relatively new psychology service.
Applicants with evidence of multidisciplinary consultancy experience, service development, staff team supervision and training and very strong clinical skills are particularly encouraged to apply
This post is one day a week on Thursdays.
Working for our organisation
At Moorfields, we provide more than just an excellent career and great colleagues to work with. We also offer:
- Salary including High-Cost Area Supplement
- Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
- Free 24/7 independent counselling service
- Learning and development opportunities
- Easy and quick transport links
- A range of attractive benefits and discounts
- Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes
- Free Pilates classes
- Full support and training to develop your skills
- Flexible working friendly organisation
And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please see our Moorfields benefits document.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will offer high-quality, psychologically-informed care across the OOKP services and may also have the opportunity to advise on the development of other relevant psychology services within Moorfields.
To carry out specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the OOKP service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the patient’s difficulties.
To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups drawing on different psychological and explanatory models
To formulate and implement plans for evidence based psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems.
To evaluate and make complex decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To undertake complex risk assessments and risk management for individual patients. To provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To facilitate a patient peer group, including overseeing governance and pragmatic issues and supporting patients in the running and use of this group.
To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues at a high level of professional expertise to other members of the team/service.
To provide specialist psychological advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other professionals in order to develop a psychological understanding on the basis of which to plan, implement and evaluate evidence based interventions for patients with complex needs.
To communicate effectively in writing and orally complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
To receive and provide regular clinical supervision.
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of legislation, policy and developments in the provision of services relevant to the Clinical population.
To keep abreast of developments in the relevant professional area of expertise and pursue further training within resources available.
Provide expert advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the service.
To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of applied psychology and psychological therapy, as appropriate.
This post is one day a week on Thursdays.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post-doctoral training and experience in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice in the areas of clinical health and acute medicine.
Desirable criteria
- BABCP Accreditation as CBT practitioner and/or AFT AFT accreditation in systemic, couple and family work and/or specialist trauma-based post-qualification training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist including a minimum of 5 years’ post-qualification experience.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working together with service users to ensure that they are equal partners in service design, evaluation, research and training.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with patients who have experienced blindness or significant loss of vision.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patient’s psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally-qualified care coordinator and also as a member of a diverse NHS multidisciplinary team
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of rare conditions affecting vision in patients and the impact on social behaviour and personal relations.
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
- Mr Alfonso Perez
- Job title
- Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07462 183351
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