We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 8a Psychologist to join the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre on a full-time, permanent basis.

The post holder will be based within the Department of Paediatric Psychology within Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, but will be required to deliver services at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and other network centres across the region.

The East Midlands Congenital Heart Network works to bring clinical teams, managers, commissioners and patient/family representatives from across the region together to support patients of all ages with a congenital heart condition, and their families/carers.

The post sits within a team of Psychologists working with young people/families with CHD, with excellent links to national SIG groups. There are excellent research opportunities at a local and national level.

There are opportunities to supervise DClinPsy trainees, assistant psychologists and other medical and allied health professional colleagues. We have a strong ethos of continued professional development which includes regular clinical and safeguarding supervision, reflective practice, team care spaces and case discussion. There are opportunities for training including EMDR, ACT, and systemic working.

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Main duties of the job

The post offers an exciting opportunity to join a well-established team of Psychologists working directly within medical multi-disciplinary teams at Leicester Children's Hospital, providing psychological assessment and interventions to children, young people and families who are living with complex long-term health needs.

Main duties of the role include;

• Designing and delivering teaching and training packages to medical, nursing, local authority partners, and allied health professional colleagues across the Congenital Heart Network.
• Psychological screening, assessment and treatment of young people and families with complex needs, including cognitive assessment and neurodevelopmental screening.
• Contributing to audit, service evaluation and research with partners across the Congenital Heart Network.
• Offering supervision and reflective practice to Trainee and Assistant Psychologists, as well as medical, nursing and allied health professional colleagues. Including offering debrief and reflective space to colleagues following challenging experiences.
• Developing and improving pathways of care to meet the psychosocial needs of children, young people and families across the Congenital Heart Network. Responsible for service development regionally, adhering to national standards and policy, and driving change and improvements.

Applicants with experience of working with children and who are interested in the relationship between physical and mental health are encouraged to apply.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Job description Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Training in clinical psychology to a doctoral standard or its equivalent as accredited by the HCPC.
• Post qualification training and recorded CPD experience and/or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychologicalpractice/ specialised psychological therapy

Desirable

• Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists.

Experience Essential

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• 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.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients in a range of settings including inpatient, out-patients, community and primary care settings.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.

Knowledge and Skills Essential

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in highly complex cases.
• Knowledge of research methodology, design and multivariate data analysis.
• Knowledge of psychological theory including developmental theories, clinical psychometrics and two or more distinct psychological therapeutic approaches.
• Highly developed skills and expertise in providing consultation and advice to other psychologists as well as other professionals.
• Skills in the use of a range of psychological assessment strategies and the ability to integrate complex data from a variety of sources.
• Skills in the ability to communicate both verbally and in writing a variety of complex technical and clinically sensitive information to a range of recipients.
• The ability to employ strategies of clinical governance to support the development of good clinical practice.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Child & Family Psychiatric Service

Westcotes Drive

Leicester

LE3 0QU

Employer's website
https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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