Clinical / Counselling Psychologist in Paediatric Psychology

Come and join our well-established and supportive Clinical Health Psychology service, providing a psychology service to the Paediatric Diabetes team (with some time allocated for the Paediatric Feeding Clinic). We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Practitioner Psychologist with prior experience working with children and families and an interest in working within a physical health setting.

This post will involve face-to-face work with children and families, offered at our Warwick Hospital and Stratford Healthcare bases. There are also opportunities for audit, research, teaching and consultation with the wider Paediatric Diabetes team. This post has recently increased in banding from Band 8A to Band 8B, reflecting both a recognition of the value of the role and the desire to improve services for children and families in this area - it will be part of the work to engage with other services. Supervision and support will be provided by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and as part of the wider Clinical Health Psychology service, there are further opportunities for specialist supervision. We also offer peer support and continuing professional development and we have strong links to local doctoral training courses in Clinical Psychology, offering specialist placements across a range of clinical health psychology areas.

Main duties of the job

To lead on the development of the paediatric psychology provision for children and young people and their families within the speciality.

To provide highly specialised and evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation and intervention (to include provision of psychological therapy as well as programmes of care and advice such as groups and workshops etc.) to children and young people and their families or carers within the speciality.

To evaluate the psychological work and produce service reviews.

To provide highly specialised advice to other medical professions including psychiatrists, paediatricians, GP's and healthcare staff.

To provide specialist advice and consultation, as appropriate on the children and young people's' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues (e.g. education and social care) and to other, non-professional carers.

To provide clinical supervision and line management to psychologist colleagues as needed.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

To act as a specialist psychological resource to this particular group of paediatric community, and to develop and implement audit and research programmes.

To propose, implement and evaluate policy and service development changes which will impact across the whole range of professions and services to which clinical psychology consults.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.