We are delighted to be recruiting to two permanent 1.0 wte Band 7 posts to join a well-established Paediatric Psychology Team based at Royal Brompton Hospital.

Both post holders will be based in the welcoming Paediatric Psychology Service at Royal Brompton Hospital (Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust) with work split across paediatric respiratory and paediatric cardiology services. Clinical work will encompass a combination of outpatient and inpatient (including intensive care) work with children, young people and their families as well as collaborative working with professional colleagues to provide high quality holistic care.

We would be delighted to share more about the posts. For further information please contact Dr Jo Blundell at j.blundell@rbht.nhs.uk or 0330 128 8251.

Main duties of the job

The post holders will have an interest, and be experienced in, applying a range of psychological models in a flexible way, working directly with children, young people and their families. The role is a varied one, with opportunity for both inpatient and outpatient working, as well as having an important component of MDT working, liaison and consultation. The role includes opportunities for teaching and training, research, and evaluation.

We meet regularly as a team to explore clinical dilemmas and share new learning across the service. Supervision will be provided by an experienced psychologist within the team. Additional opportunities include, but do not stop with, monthly team reflective practice and peer supervision as well as participation in SIG networks locally and nationally. Service relevant CPD is actively encouraged.

About us

The post holder(s) will be joining a team of paediatric psychologists providing psychological care for children, young people and families at Royal Brompton Hospital, under the Cardio-Respiratory and Intensive Care Directorate at GSTT . We have established links with the large team of paediatric psychologists at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and particularly with our colleagues within CRIC Paediatric Psychology at ELCH.

As a flexible working friendly organization, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our patients, our staff and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we'll make it work for you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

• To provide specialist expertise in the psychological care of children, young people and their families within the paediatric psychology service, on an outpatient and inpatient basis.
• To provide specialist psychological assessment of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of service users presenting with a variety of complex problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing evidence-based interventions across a range of settings.

Please see attached JD and Person Specification for full information.

Person Specification

Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• Well-developed IT skills including data entry and analysis of research data using Microsoft programmes and appropriate statistical packages such as SPSS.

Desirable

• Evidence of continued professional development

Previous experience

Essential

• oExperience of working psychologically with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• oExperience of teaching, training and service evaluation

Desirable

• oExperience of working psychologically with children and young people
• oExperience of working in health care setting

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• oDoctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS). This qualification affording eligibility for current or potential registration as 'practitioner psychologist' with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC)

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Paediatric Psychology Service, Royal Brompton Hospital

Sydney Street

London

SW3 6NP

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