Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

The current post will manage the ICU psychologists (1WTE 8B at Royal Free Hospital and 0.7WTE 8B at Barnet Hospital) and work clinically inthe Royal Free Hospital ICU.

This post would suit an applied psychologist with clinical and managerial experience in a senior role, ideally in a physical health setting where the

issues are similar to those of patients being treated within critical care and their valued others. Experience should include service-relatedresearch, clinical audit, teaching and training, as well as working at an organisational or service level. Additionally, we would welcome applicantswith in-depth knowledge, skills and experience in a specific psychological therapy. Research activity is positively encouraged and supported withopportunities to work collaboratively with colleagues on a national and international scale. There is also access to regular supervision from withinthe hospital and externally with discussion.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated

army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A& E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle.

From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Acommitment to leading and developing a team in accordance withthe Trust values
• Registered with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Clinical supervision training
• Post-doctoral training in an additional specialised area of psychological practice
• Senior management/leadership training

World Class Values

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
• Acommitment to leading and developing a team in accordance withthe Trust values

Experience

Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologistfor a minimum of 6 years with at least 4 years at ahighly-specialisedlevel (or equivalent quality and quantity of experience)
• Extensive experience and skills in applying clinical health psychology within a relevant setting.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient 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, inpatient and residentialcare
• Experience of professional management and supervision of qualified and prequalified applied psychologists (e.g.clinical, counselling and health)
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary careplan
• Experience of representing psychology in multi-professional settings, including policy forum
• Experienceof formal teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision ofpsychologists
• Experienceof teaching and training of otherprofessionals
• Experienceof maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physicalabuse
• Experienceof multidisciplinary teamwork
• Experiencein the application of more than one treatment model in clinical healthpsychology
• Substantial experience of highly specialistpsychotherapeuticassessment and treatment of patients, with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of service development
• Experience of the application of psychology in different culturalcontexts
• Experienceof work in a multi-cultural setting, including working withInterpreters

Desirable

• Experience of successful clinical leadership
• Experience of supporting junior colleagues toplananddevelop their careers

Skills

Essential

• Ability to plan, deliver and manage a specialist service, and undertake service evaluation and development, based on a thorough understanding of national policy and local and national NHS strategies, and an expert interpretation of current professional best practice
• Extensive, highly specialist knowledge and expertise inclinical health psychologyin a relevant medical/health setting.
• Expert skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
• Ability to analyse and manage complex, multifactorial information from a range of sources, both clinical and organisational, and integrate and formulate from a range of psychological perspectives, to make expert professional judgements about appropriate action in an NHS context.
• Expert skills in the ability to comprehend and communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS, including overcoming barriers to understanding andacceptance.
• Highly-developedskills in providing advice, expertise and consultation to other professional and nonprofessionalgroups.
• Doctorallevel knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinicalpsychology.
• Knowledgeof legislation in relation to the profession and mental health generally and the implications for clinical practice and professional management.
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations andseverely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress ofothers
• Abilityto work creatively, co-operatively, reliably and consistently as an independent practitioner, as a mentor and supervisor, and in multi-disciplinary and senior management settings.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional,academicand senior NHS managementsettings
• Advanced IT skills, including using Outlook and other Microsoft Office programmes, and the ability to learn and use software packages relevant to the Trust
• Ability to develop, co-ordinate and manage aculturally-competentand nonstigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mentalhealth.
• Abilityto demonstrate leadership and managementskills.
• Abilityto co-ordinate the recording and reporting of clinical information as required and to initiate developments and responses to need in thisarea.

Desirable

• Ability to articulate the value added by psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary physical mental healthservices.
• Budgetingand financial control/planningskillsand knowledgeof funding arrangements for service and professionaldevelopment.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust

London

NW32QG

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