Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Psychology - Paed Oncology/ SCIDS
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 15 months (from date of appointment)
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2024-14-06-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Town
- 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/05/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a temporary (15 month) Band 8a Clinical Psychologist post working in the neuro-oncology team within the paediatric psychology service at Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust.
The post holder will be responsible for providing psychological therapies and occasional neuropsychological assessments to children with brain tumour and their families in our region.
The paediatric health psychology service is a thriving department, which is committed to child and family centred care. There are opportunities for professional development through regular journal clubs and case discussion meetings. The Paediatric Health Psychology team is part of the wider Department of Psychology in Healthcare, enabling collaboration and support with adult psychology colleagues. There are also close links with the doctorate clinical psychology course at Newcastle and Teesside universities.
- Interview date: 15th May 2024
- 7 hours 30 minutes /week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Main duties of the job
- This role will include provision of psychological therapies and neuropsychology assessments to children and young people with a brain tumour.
- This post will involve working closely within the multi-disciplinary team and external partners such as school staff, and good team-working and communication skills are essential.
- The role involves working in an environment in which families can experience high levels of distress.
- The post holder will be skilled in providing assessment to families in a sensitive and containing manner.
Working for our organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
- Provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service within the Paediatric Neuro-Oncology Team providing specialist neuropsychological and psychological assessment, formulation and therapy. Working closely and reporting to the Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist within the Paediatric Neuro-Oncology Team
- Offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Paediatric Neuro-Oncology Team.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
- HCPC Registration.
- The post holder will have undertaken additional relevant post qualification training.
- The post holder has completed further training in supervision skills required to provide supervision for Doctoral trainees.
Desirable criteria
- Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or fields of applied psychology.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND APTITUDE
Essential criteria
- In addition to obtaining the necessary qualifications and experience to practice as a clinical psychologist has additional knowledge of National Good Practice of working as a clinical psychologist with children and families
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to empathise and communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Demonstrable skills in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctorate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Is developing skills in the application of psychological knowledge to a population e.g. paediatrics and takes day to day responsibility for the management of waiting list within (allocated) section of the paediatric psychology Service)
- Have skills in waiting list management
- Is developing skills in audit and resource management.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities, etc.)
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Desirable criteria
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Has consolidated post qualification experience and application of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients in child and family services.
- The post holder will have received a significant amount of clinical supervision (post qualification)
Desirable criteria
- Has consolidated post qualification experience and application of specialist neuropsychological and psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of children and young people in a physical health setting
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
- Heather Borrill
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912824081
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