Would you be excited to use a range of psychological models and approaches with families living with diverse medical conditions? Do you enjoy being embedded in a team with a varied role? Do you have skills leading psychological provision in multidisciplinary settings from expert and non-expert positions? Then this is the post for you!

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 are delighted to be recruiting to a fixed term (maternity cover) 1.0 WTE band 8b Lead Practitioner Psychologist post in Paediatric Chronic Pain & Rheumatology. The post-holder will be based within the diverse and welcoming Paediatric Psychology service at the Evelina London (Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust). Whilst we have a preference for full-time part-time job share, and secondment opportunities will be considered.

We would be thrilled to share more about the post. For further information please contact Dr Alex Orchard (Lead Clinical Psychologist, Alexandra.Orchard@gstt.nhs.uk ) or Dr Lisa Barkley (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lisa.Barkley@gstt.nhs.uk ).

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work within the Chronic Pain and Rheumatology services at Evelina London.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the multidisciplinary team, taking on a lead role in delivering psychological care for children and young people accessing the service. The post-holder will blend individual and group therapeutic skills with multi-disciplinary rehabilitation, providing liaison and consultation within Evelina and wider networks. Work is across outpatients and inpatients with both medically explained and perplexing presentations.

The post holder will work closely with the Consultant Psychologist, as a senior member of the Paediatric Psychology team, providing line management and supervision of other members of the service.

Being within the Paediatric Psychology Service offers good opportunities for collaborative working with other team members, audit & research, teaching and training. We meet regularlyas a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learnings across our diverse services. Supervision will be provided by an experienced Psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include but do not stop with reflective practice groups, peer supervision as well as SIG networks across the South East and nationally.Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.

About us

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 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 are working in partnership with King's Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age. 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 new and existing 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 that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for further details.

Please contact our team if you have any further questions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology (or it's equivalent for those who trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS, including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro- psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and life span developmental psychology
• Registration with Health and Care Professions Council.

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice (neuropsychology or CBT)

Experience

Essential

• At least 4 years post qualification experience, highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment, including work in the area of chronic and acute physical health problems and disability.
• Experience in the psychological management of acute and chronic pain and other physical problems including highly specialist experience and knowledge of using cognitive behaviour techniques for assessment, formulation and treatment of patients with complex health problems.
• Additional post graduate specialist training in area of working with people with physical health problems. To include internal or external courses or conferences, e.g. specialist therapeutic approaches, neuropsychological testing, specific clinical populations, management, psychological treatment and interventions.

Desirable

• Clinical experience in the management of psychosocial aspects of chronic health conditions.
• Experience of working with highly emotive and distressing problems (e.g. life-threatening and life-limiting medical conditions)
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability and skills to supervise and line manage junior clinical psychologists and clinical psychology trainees having completed the relevant training.
• Advanced practitioner skills in at least one model of psychological therapy (cognitive behaviour therapy).
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and interventions frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration, and which require making judgements involving highly complex facts/situations.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, hold leadership roles and contribute to effective team functioning.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly distressing and emotive material, as well as, challenging behaviours.
• Ability to undertake risk assessment of client in relation to self and others, and refer on to appropriate services as necessary.

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Thomas' Hospital, London

London

SE1 7EH

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