This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified practitioner psychologist with a strong interest paediatric neuropsychology to work within a small but vital specialist service at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. We pride ourselves on providing expert neuropsychological assessment and consultation that is formulation driven and compassionate. As an HCPC registered practitioner psychologist you will have the opportunity to develop your existing neuropsychology skills by providing assessments and consultations to children and young people with a range of neurological and other health conditions. You will act as the point of contact for referrals from the neuroinflammatory service, developing specialist knowledge of these conditions and supporting the development of pathways of care for patients with neuroinflammatory conditions.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide neuropsychological assessment and consultation for children with a range of medical backgrounds, with a particular focus on those with neuroinflammatory conditions. There will also be opportunities to develop resources to meet the needs of children and young people seen within this service. This post will be particularly of interest to candidates who wish to explore whether they would like to continue down the BPS QiCN route. There will be opportunities to develop supervision skills through supporting undergraduate student placements within the service.

The ideal candidate will be systematic and well organised, able to self-manage, creative, with excellent communication skills. We recognise that specialist paediatric neuropsychology placements are not always available in training and therefore will consider candidates who have clearly demonstrated an interest and commitment to the area and have some generalizable neuropsychology skills and experience.

The post holder will join a small team of practitioner psychologists from clinical and educational psychology backgrounds. The team sits within Evelina Neurosciences, which has a strong psychology presence. Within the Evelina London Children's Hospital and Community Services there is a larger psychology service covering Paediatrics, NICU and Cleft. We also have the benefit of working with our paediatric psychology colleagues from the Royal Brompton and Harefield.

About us

The Paediatric Neurosciences Service is a multi-disciplinary regional and national service that focuses on children and young people with neurological conditions (including inpatient and outpatient services, neuropsychology and neuro-rehabilitation for conditions such as acquired brain injury and cerebral palsy), and neurodevelopmental disorders (particularly autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, language and communication disorders, intellectual disability, Tics and Tourette's, complex feeding and sleep problems). Services within neurosciences are largely tertiary and hospital based with growing service outreach to the community. The service specialises in the diagnosis and management of highly complex cases, which have a range of co-morbidities, including physical health and genetic conditions, acquired brain injury and associated challenges around functioning and coping, intellectual impairment, neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders, severe challenging behaviour and is composed of multidisciplinary teams each working in an integrated way to deliver care.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and Person Specification for full details of these posts.

This post is a key member of the team delivering paediatric neuropsychology assessments and consultations for patients referred by medical services at Evelina London, Guys and St. Thomas Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will:

Provide neuropsychological assessments for children referred to the Paediatric Neuropsychology service, including consultation and liaison as appropriate.

Provide specialist neuropsychological consultation, offering advice on patients psychological and neuropsychological care to the wider paediatric teams, and working autonomously within professional practice guidelines and the overall framework of the Guys and St. Thomas psychology teams policies and procedures

With the support of a more senior team member, act as the point of contact for referrals from the neuro inflammatory service.

Work with patients from across the multiple catchment areas of Evelina London

Utilise research and development skills for audit, policy, service development and clinical research within the service area

Contribute to and develop policy and treatment pathways for children and young people treated at the Evelina London

Work effectively as a member of the team, delivering supervision and training, and attending virtual and physical multidisciplinary team meetings as required.

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level qualification in clinical or health or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS with HCPC accreditation as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Eligibility for Chartered status with the BPS.
• Health And Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registration as Practitioner Psychologist

Experience

Essential

• Experience of neuropsychological assessment and treatment of children and young people with physical health problems.
• Experience of undertaking and interpreting neuropsychological assessments and writing reports based on the results
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Desirable

• Experience of supervision of trainee/assistant psychologists/students.

Skills

Essential

• A strong ability to communicate at both a written and oral level, imparting complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, and carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS. This may require negotiating, motivating, training, reassuring others and demonstrating empathy.
• Experience and ability to undertake risk assessment of client in relation to self and others, and refer on to appropriate services as necessary.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to effective team functioning.
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging interactions.

Additional Information

Essential

• Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical/health psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary physical health care services setting.

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Evelina Children's Hospital

London

SE1 7EH

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

196-LIS9013