Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

Band 7 Clinical Psychologist (15 hrs per week)

To work as a clinician in child and adolescent psychological services at UCLH with specific responsibility for supporting inpatient and outpatient paediatric psychology services. The post holder will provide a specialist psychological assessment and treatment service across paediatrics. This is a fixed term temporary role.

The post holder will offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.On the UCH site, there are acute and general paediatric services to the district in addition to specialist children's and adolescent services (including adolescent medicine and cancer). This post is part of the multi-disciplinary child and adolescent psychological medicine service. The post holder will contribute to the systemic consultation service and a range of psychological therapies for in-patients and out-patients at UCH.

To provide specialist psychological assessments and treatment of children, young people, and their families, using individual, parent and family interviews, informal observation and formal developmental, psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

The role is to provide specialist assessment and therapy with children and young people affected by a range of chronic health conditions. There will also be opportunities for group work, training and consultation to other professionals. We are not able to offer visits to the department however we welcome discussions with potential candidates.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National Throat,Nose and Ear Hospital

Eastman Dental Hospital

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospitals at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

Job responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.

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Person specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree in psychology or related disciplines, and a Doctorate and/or PhD level in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) (acquired as part of the clinical training).
• Registered Practitioner Psychologist by the HPC.
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of neuropsychological assessment, intervention and management
• Knowledge of specialised assessment and therapeutic approaches in a Specialist Paediatric Service.
• Ability to make diagnostic decisions, give second opinions and make differential diagnoses as part of multidisciplinary assessments.
• Knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people living with long term health conditions
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and neuropsychological assessments and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Experience of working with and promoting diversity.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Ability to work with interpreters.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Previous experience of research indicating the ability to conduct research autonomously, with supervision as required.
• Ability to critique and evaluate scientific data and best practice clinical guidelines.
• Advanced IT skills (including video editing, word processing, spreadsheets, statistical packages).

Communication

Essential

• A high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrates professional and effective verbal and written communication skills including excellent negotiation skills with patients, carers and other health professional staff in service delivery.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS where information may be highly sensitive and there may be barriers to acceptance.
• Evidence of working well in multidisciplinary teams.
• Evidence of effective clinical reasoning in the assessment and management of young people living in complex systems.

Desirable

• Personal and People Development

Specific Requirements

Essential

• Must be able to cope with highly emotive and psychologically challenging demands of working with children/young people with disability and for long periods of time.

Personal and People Development

Desirable

• Skills in supervising other staff.

Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties.

Values

Essential

• Demonstrate ability to meet Trust Values of safety, kindness, teamwork and improving