SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST

at  Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

WHO WE ARE:

We are a dynamic and friendly psychology team who value patient centred care. We are enthusiastic about innovative, flexible and creative approaches to therapy and increasing access to evidence-based psychological support for children and young people with medical conditions.
We have developed good links with the D. Clin course at the University of Southampton, whose trainees come on placement with us.

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

Are you an experienced and enthusiastic clinical psychologist looking for flexible working whilst still receiving outstanding development? We are seeking to recruit a practitioner psychologist to join our small, friendly and highly valued paediatric psychology team.
We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible individual who is interested in developing effective, innovative, efficient services with good quality outcomes for children, young people and their families living with chronic health conditions, to improve their quality of life and well-being.
The successful candidate will provide evidence-based psychological interventions to children and young people referred with a broad range of physical health conditions including; cystic fibrosis, respiratory, cardiac, epilepsy, oncology, allergies, chronic pain, and persistent physical symptom presentations. We provide outpatient assessment and therapy and some inpatient input.
This is a permanent, 0.8 30 hours hours per week, part-time band 8a position based at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, (with some occasional cross-site working for the Trust).
To work as an autonomous practitioner providing a high quality, specialist paediatric psychology service to children, young people, their families or carers. The role is to provide interventions for the general paediatric psychology provision for child health.
To support psychological practice within the multidisciplinary paediatric team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to trainee, junior psychologists and other staff. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Paediatric Psychology team.

JOB PURPOSE

To provide a high-quality specialist paediatric psychology service to children, young people, their families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and Trust care pathways. Offering interventions in a range of formats; individual, family and groups.
To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues. To analyse and interpret highly complex assessment findings, feedback assessment findings to children, young people and their families, give psychological recommendations to parents/carers and other professionals, formulate and implement formal clinical recommendations and treatment interventions and complete professional reports. This will involve regularly communicating highly complex and sensitive information.
To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate.
To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about clinical psychology issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate