About this role
Job summary
Join a warm and highly experienced paediatric team who are committed to the delivery of psychology to the wider paediatric department. This is an exciting opportunity to further develop and expand the offer of paediatric psychology to the Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Unit at the Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust. You will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation to non-psychologist colleagues and/or carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
Significant experience of working in paediatric psychology is essential either as a qualified or trainee clinical psychologist. You will be supervised by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and part of a valued paediatric psychology team.
You will have an interest in applying a range of psychological models in a flexible way, working directly with children, young people and their families. There will be indirect work via liaison and consultation with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies. Part of your role may include staff support, providing debriefs and regular reflective practice to teams, as well as MDT teaching.
You will be part of the wider CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service. This service meets monthly for business, journal and research presentations, as well as clinical and skill sharing.
Main duties of the job
Your role will involve working as an integrated member of the paediatric oncology MDT, you will attend weekly clinics providing input to children, young people and their families seen by the paediatric oncology service in addition to providing therapeutic assessment and support to individual families as agreed with the MDT within your own outpatient clinics. A further part of the role will be to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research across the areas served by the paediatric psychology service.
You will also provide support to the MDT staff including Reflective Practice, Consultations and Debriefs and be an active member of the wider paediatric psychology service at the Hillingdon Hospital.
About us
The Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) is responsible for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental health Services (CAMHS) to the populations of Brent, Hillingdon, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster and Milton Keynes, as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to other Trusts and Agencies, and to a wider regional catchment area. The CNWL Paediatric and Child Development Psychology Service provides services to 7 acute hospitals across the Central and North West London area.
The Hillingdon Hospital delivers services for an ethnically and socio-economically diverse population. We work in close collaboration with three other Trusts in NW London, and have a shared board in common. Clinical Psychology services are provided to the Paediatric units, including neonates, and Paediatric Outpatients, including dedicated psychology for specialist teams.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological wellbeing in relation to their physical health needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Person Specification
Training & Qualification Essential
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist -domain of clinical psychology
Desirable
Training and qualifications in a relevant field of applied psychology/research methodology.
Experience Essential
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including child, young people and their families.
Desirable
Pre and/or post qualification experience of working in a paediatric psychology team Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervising
Knowledge & Skills Essential
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. 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.
Desirable
Skills in offering consultation/reflective practice within multidisciplinary acute health setting
Other Essential
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address The Hillingdon Hospital
Pield Heath Rd
London
UB8 3NN
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)