We are an innovative and welcoming team who are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist to join our Complex Neurodevelopmental Service at the Evelina Children's Hospital. This post may also provide an exciting opportunity to join our Complex Feeding Team within the service.

This is a great opportunity to work collaboratively in embedded teams with colleagues from speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology (clinical, educational and health) and specialist nursing to provide specialist assessments and intervention for children from the South East regions and beyond. We see children and young people with a range of suspected developmental needs which are often complex and multiple in nature (including autism, epilepsy, attention, learning, behaviour that challenges, neurological and other complex medical health presentations). The ideal post holder would be experienced in working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties.

The post holder will join the dynamic and supportive psychology service across the Evelina London.

We are advertising for a 2 1/2 day 9 month fixed term post (maternity cover). We would be able to consider secondment opportunities and we may also have capacity to add eligible candidates from successful interview to our talent pool to offer other roles we may have within Evelina, should candidates be interested.

Main duties of the job

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use of a range methods (including cognitive assessment, validated tests (e.g. ADOS-2), self-report measures, rating scales, observations and clinical interviews with children, families and other agencies)
• To work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to provide high quality integrated care, contributing to diagnosis and formulation of young people's neurodevelopmental and mental health needs.
• To provide recommendations for support based on psychological formulation and evidence base, liaising and consulting with local agencies as appropriate. Deliver evidence based psychological interventions adapted and tailored to the needs of children and families.
• Supervision of assistant, trainee and undergraduate psychology students

For full details please see job description.

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 are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. 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 have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are an innovative and welcoming team who are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist to join our Complex Neurodevelopmental Service at the Evelina Childrens Hospital. This post may also provide an exciting opportunity to join our Complex Feeding Team within the service.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Professional / Statutory Registration

Essential

• HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
• Eligible for Full membership of the BPS division of clinical, health, educational and child or counselling psychology

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential

• BSc (Hons) in Psychology
• Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology, educational psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)

Previous experience

Essential

• Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments (including psychometric), interventions, follow-up and data monitoring utilising at least 2 therapeutic/intervention models including CBT.
• Experience of using evidence based psychological interventions for the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of psychological problems,
• Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions using evidence based psychological approaches

Skills / Knowledge / Ability

Essential

• Ability to cope with challenging caseloads and ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Knowledge of using of evidence based methods of psychological and behavioural assessment and intervention, requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• 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
• Ability to translate and integrate evidence based research/guidelines into the development of a pathway of care.
• Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Evelina London Childrens Hospital

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

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