We are inviting enthusiastic and passionate individuals to apply for this exciting opportunity, to understand the psychology provision across several paediatric services in the West Midlands.

This role is part of the West Midlands Children's Network and will cover the paediatric Networks within this group which isa collection of Women's & Children's Clinical Networks for the West Midlands, hosted by Birmingham Women's & Children's NHS FT. The Networks cover:

Paediatric Critical Care

Paediatric Palliative Care

Surgery in Children

Congenital Heart Disease

Children & Young People and Teenage & Young Adult Cancer

Perinatal

The role of clinical networks are to connect providers of these services across the West Midlands to ensure:

care is consistent

equity of access

high standards of quality of care

patient and family experiences and outcomes are constantly improving.

The post holder will work to identify the gaps in psychology provision across our service remits in acute paediatric services. They will look to understand the impact of psychology provision, either its presence or absence, on our patients and their families. And most importantly, they will take the lead on designing solutions to increase psychology provision and improve current pathways.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for undertaking project work to understand the current psychology provision within acute paediatric settings, completing a gap analysis against relevant service specifications. It will also be important to collect qualitative data regarding the impact of psychology provision for children, young people, their families and staff. Based on these results, the postholder will support development of recommendations to improve psychology provision across the region, and where possible, support their implementation.

Working with stakeholders across a variety of systems, providers, professions and external organisations will be key to the success of this role, including engaging with children, young people and their families.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist
• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Post-qualification specialist training in particular psychotherapeutic approaches e.g. ACT, CFT, VIG, CBT.

Desirable

• Educational qualification, eg. Cert Ed/PgDip etc
• Leadership course/module or recognised Leadership qualification

Knowledge and Nature of experience

Essential

• Evidence of extensive paediatric CPD in line with recognised competencies and maintenance of a Personal, Professional Profile
• Significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
• 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 severity 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Evidence of significant post-graduate paediatric experience at Band 8a or above
• Proven experience of leading and implementing service developments, including developing Psychology business cases & recruitment, & large scale change management
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
• Proven experience of the delivery and evaluation of high quality multidisciplinary education, training and mentoring
• Experience of guideline /policy writing
• Proven experience of research audit and evaluation
• Experience of managing/mentoring staff

Desirable

• Specialist experience in the area of paediatric mental health.

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of up-to-date skills and is clinically competent in current role
• Excellent IT skills
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• Sound knowledge of key national issues/agendas relevant to the paediatric field
• Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of practice development and evidence based practice.

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in highly complex groups (e.g. complex PTSD, dual diagnoses, etc) and an understanding of neurodiversity and implications for intervention and parental experience on the unit
• Published articles/research (or contributor to)

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

Essential

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Excellent leadership skills
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
• Ability to work autonomously, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• 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 adapt to changing needs of the service
• Excellent time management skills and highly developed organisational skills
• Able to demonstrate good multidisciplinary team working
• Able to work flexibly with a high degree of autonomy
• Diplomacy and ability to work collaboratively
• Self -motivated, able to set own priorities and meet changing priorities and deadlines
• Motivated to drive professional development of self as well as others.
• Evidence of an enthusiasm for developing practice in current role.
• Excellent role model and high standards of conduct and behaviour
• Positive and proactive approach to problem solving.
• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
• Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support parents, families and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
• Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
• Able to maintain professionals standards and objectivity under pressure
• Able to reflect on own performance
• Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns
• Good and appropriate use of formal and informal supervision

Other requirements

Desirable

• Clean driving licence and flexible approach to work - the role will entail significant travel and a high degree of autonomy

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham Children's Hospital

Birmingham

B4 6NH

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284-24-6493693-COPR