Clinical Psychologist in Paediatric Cleft Job Vacancy in Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham – Updated today
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Company Name : Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Location : Nottingham
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Job Description : Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for an qualified Clinical Psychologist to work in our growing and innovative paediatric psychology team. You will have specialist experience of working with physical health problems, or experience of working in child and adolescent mental health with an interest and desire to bring that knowledge to work in paediatrics.
Your main duties will include working with the Multidisciplinary Cleft Lip and Palate Service to offer psychological care to children, young people and adults through a consultation with staff and by directly working with patients and their families.
Main duties of the job
Whilst your main base will be at the City Hospital campus, you will also work at the Queen’s Medical Centre and will be required to attend MDT clinics regularly across the Trent region including; Sheffield, Doncaster, Leicester and Derby. You will be part of a Clinical Psychology Department which incorporates specialisms in Paediatric Psychology, Adult Medical Psychology and Child and Adult Neuropsychology.
You would not be expected to have pre-existing experience of working in this area, however, applicants with experience of working with children and who are interested in the emotional impact of physical health are encouraged to apply.
We are keen to hear from enthusiastic applicants who aspire to developing a career in paediatrics.
Working for our organisation
The Nottingham Children’s Hospital is part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Nottingham Children’s Hospital has 97 beds and cares for around 40,000 children each year from Nottinghamshire and beyond. We treat a full range of conditions including planned treatment and surgeries; emergency surgical/medical treatment; burns and plastics; neurological conditions; oncology; cleft lip and palate; renal conditions and transplantation; spinal and orthopaedic.
There are plenty of opportunities for continued professional development and supervision within the team. We have a number of trainees from the DClinPsy courses at Universities of Leicester, Sheffield, Nottingham and Lincoln, so there would be opportunities to supervise trainees, assistant psychologists and other medical and allied health professional colleagues. You will also be involved in providing consultation, training and supervision to others within and outside of the team. The department has a commitment to clinical research. Strong support is available to participate in research or to develop your clinical research interests.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work autonomously as a Clinical Psychologist within Professional and Trust guidelines, policies and procedures.
To be accountable for own caseload, taking on prime responsibility for the highly specialist assessment and treatment of patients.
To provide a specialist and comprehensive assessment and management of patients with cleft requiring the appropriate use, interpretation/ analysis and integration of highly complex psychological and non-psychological information from a variety of sources.
To communicate highly complex condition related information to patients and their families who may be distressed, due to the nature of their condition.
To provide teaching and training to MDT staff within the Cleft Network both formally and informally.
To maintain standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance.
To represent the department at operational or strategy meetings in the Trust as required by the Head of Specialism or Director of Psychology.
To ensure own individual continuing professional development CPD arranged in consultation with the Director of Psychology.
Please read the full job description and person specifications for what the full role entails.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
Post-graduate doctoral level (or equivalent) training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS.
HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
Working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist in children’s mental or physical health or with adults with physical health problems.
Experience of working in an acute hospital setting
Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
Experience of carrying out research
Desirable criteria
Experience of assessing and treating patients with long-term physical health problems
Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
Working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist in Paediatric psychology
Experience conducting clinical research
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Commitment to support the Trust’s Values
Desirable criteria
Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies or assessment methodologies
Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential criteria
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Desirable criteria
Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for people with long-term health conditions
Knowledge of complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
Experience using qualitative research methods
Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience. Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are currently under-represented at NUH.
Covid-19 vaccination: remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. Whilst Covid-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this present time unless you work in a Care Home facility, we continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated. For helpful advice and information about the Covid-19 vaccination and how to access visit: https://nottsccg.nhs.uk/covid-19/covid-19-vaccinations/
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
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Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
Skilled Workers Visa: We welcome applications from individuals who require a skilled worker visa in line with the Home Office regulations. NON-UK/NON SETTLED candidates may not be appointed, if a suitably qualified and skilled UK/SETTLED candidate is successful at interview stage as it is unlikely that the Trust is able to satisfy the Home Office Visa requirements
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Consent:
Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service – I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£45 for enhanced and £28 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
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