Please apply for this role if you are a looking for a leadership position in a challenging paediatric service and have a genuine enthusiasm for developing evidence of outcome and effectiveness.
We are a new interdisciplinary team working to implement the Cass Review (2024) for Children and Young People. This role will be a leader in Psychological Health Services and the Children and Young People’s Gender Service (South West). The specialism required for this role is in leading the service in the development and delivery of interventions, in liaison with the Clinical Lead, Clinical Director and service Consultants. There is additional responsibility for overseeing patient and public involvement (PPI).
To contribute to development, coordination, clinical care and leadership, to ensure the systematic provision of a psychology service to the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service (South West) and provide highly specialist clinical leadership and input (direct and indirect) with regard to the provision of clinical interventions in this service. To lead and oversee the patient, parent and ex patient (public) involvement work of the service. To provide training, clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in the CYP Gender Service and PHS. To undertake joint working, consultation, training and service development activities, with the other clinicians working within the service and in partnership with health and social care organsiations across the South West region, and nationally as required. To undertake, coordinate and supervise psychological research, service evaluation and audit activity both uni-professionally and in collaboration with other professional groups within the programme, covered by this post. To provide leadership, management and professional supervision of staff employed within Psychological Health Services in more than one clinical area.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
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