An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinical psychologist to lead the Paediatric Psychology service at the West Middlesex University Hospital (WMUH). The post holder would supervise the work of the 8a psychologist for paediatric diabetes, develop the paediatric psychology service within the hospital, accept general paediatric referrals, and provide support to the families and staff of babies inpatient on the special care baby unit. Doctoral trainee placements are also provided to the North London Clinical Psychology courses. You will receive supervision and support from the Head of the CNWL Paediatric Psychology service.

Within this wider CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service there are regular opportunities to link with the psychologists working across other sites both informally and formally for CPD and peer support. The CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service meets monthly for business, journal and research presentations, as well as clinical and skill sharing.

Informal enquiries about the post are very much welcomed.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality psychological service to children and young people seen within the Paediatric Psychology Service at WMUH.
• To provide specialist supervision and support for the psychological assessment and intervention provided by Clinical Psychologists, Trainees and Assistants working within the Paediatric Psychology Service at WMUH as well as to other paediatric psychologists working across CNWL.
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for both clinical and professional supervision, appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs across the service.
• To work closely with the clinical managers and team administrators to ensure there are efficient administrative systems in place to effectively manage referrals, waiting lists, and recording of clinical activity, relating to C& YP Health conditions.
• To carry out necessary audit, policy- and service- development, service user participation, and research activities within the service to ensure the delivery of a reflexive, high quality and financially efficient service for C& YP with health conditions, with a sound basis in evidence-based treatment, positive service-user outcomes and best clinical practice.
• To contribute significantly to service development and to lead on innovation and evaluation of services for C& YP with health conditions,

About us

The Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) is responsible for the provision of Paediatric Psychology services to a number of acute hospital across central and northwest London, as well as Child and Adolescent Mental health Services (CAMHS) to the populations of Brent, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster. Highly specialist services are also provided to other Trusts and Agencies in a wider regional catchment area.

West Middlesex University Hospital (WMUH) is a large teaching hospital offering secondary and tertiary level medical services to an ethnically and socio-economically diverse population. Clinical Psychology services are provided to Paediatric Outpatients, the Paediatric Diabetes Service, and the Special Care Baby Unit. WMUH is a part of the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality psychological service to children and young people seen within the Paediatric Psychology Service at WMUH.
• To provide specialist supervision and support for the psychological assessment and intervention provided by Clinical Psychologists, Trainees and Assistants working within the Paediatric Psychology Service at WMUH as well as to other paediatric psychologists working across CNWL.
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for both clinical and professional supervision, appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs across the service.
• To work closely with the clinical managers and team administrators to ensure there are efficient administrative systems in place to effectively manage referrals, waiting lists, and recording of clinical activity, relating to C& YP Health conditions.
• To provide necessary service activity reports in a timely and organised fashion an ensure supervisees are using the appropriate information recording systems in accordance with CNWL Trust and other relevant professional policies, suitable for services to C& YP with health conditions.
• To carry out necessary audit, policy- and service- development, service use participation, and research activities within the service to ensure the delivery of a reflexive, high quality and financially efficient service for C& YP with health conditions, with a sound basis in evidence-based treatment, positive service-user outcomes and best clinical practice.
• To ensure compliance with relevant CNWL & C& WH Trust policies and procedures in a variety of areas and to assist in the reporting of key performance indicators to relevant commissioners and monitoring bodies e.g., CQC, Commissioning Bodies, NHS England etc.
• To contribute significantly to service development and to lead on innovation and evaluation of services for C& YP with health conditions,

Please see attached job description for further details

Person Specification

Traing and Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. (1) Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) accredited as a clinical psychologist. (1)

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. (2)
• Training related to specialist knowledge of assessment and intervention relating to CYP with Health conditions and their families.
• Attendance at relevant management training courses and events.
• Training in supervision

Experience

Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a significant period, including significant post qualification experience within a Paediatric Psychology service.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of liaising with services relevant to CYP, including schools, LA Child and Family Services, and NHS Child development Services
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for children and young people' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training professional and clinical supervision of pre-qualified & qualified clinical psychology staff.

Desirable

• Experience in a managerial/leadership role in a paediatric psychology service.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
• Experience of working across a range of clinical setting and knowledge of the key interface issues with other CAMHS services
• Experience of managing budgets
• Experience of supporting CYP and family in preparation for transition to services for Adults with Health condition
• Experience of representing the profession in local policy forums.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of designing and implementing research projects

PERSONAL

Essential

• Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, and interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services. Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
• Ability to withstand high levels of emotionally charged situations.

Desirable

• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multiprofessional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area

Other

Essential

• Awareness and respect for diversity, of clients, and of staff.
• Commitment to equality of esteem and opporunities for children, young people and adults with health conditions and/or Mental Health challenges
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology or counselling psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and required by HCPC.
• Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists

Desirable

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups.

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Paediatric Psychology Department, West Middlesex University Hospital

Twickenham Road Road

Isleworth

TW7 6AF

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