Clinical Psychologist in Paediatrics | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced clinician looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to join an award wining and innovative MDT diabetes and psychology service? We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical psychologist who is committed to delivering patient-focused care and treatment.

Applicants who have experience in paediatric diabetes or have a good foundation of transferable skills and an interest to develop in this area are desirable. We especially welcome applications from candidates with the valuable experience of the diverse social and cultural communities the Trust serves as we are seeking to ensure our psychology staffing has greater diversity and better represents local communities.

This post offers a unique opportunity to work both in a speciality area as well as more broadly across a variety of presentations. The successful post holder will be well supported in a friendly and innovative team.

To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical psychology service within the specialist field of diabetes care, in addition to contributing to the general paediatric psychology provision in the department. This involves taking responsibility for the day-to-day management, co-ordination, planning and development of clinical psychology services to the paediatric diabetes team, including identifying service priorities and initiating developments within the service. To provide multi-agency consultation and liaison to the network of agencies and professionals involved with the care of children, young people and their families living with diabetes and the wider general paediatric service.

The post holder would have their own clinical caseload, as well as supervising and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by trainee and assistant psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. The post holder would be expected to: lead the psychosocial care of patients by working with the MDT and diabetes nurses. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team; to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research; and to propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.

The Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) is responsible for the provision of Paediatric Psychology services to a number of acute hospital across central and northwest London, as well as Child and Adolescent Mental health Services (CAMHS) to the populations of Brent, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster. Highly specialist services are also provided to other Trusts and Agencies in a wider regional catchment area.

Within the wider CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service there are regular opportunities to link with the psychologists working across other sites both informally and formally for CPD and peer support. The CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service meets monthly for business, journal and research presentations, as well as clinical and skill sharing.

The Hillingdon Hospital is a teaching hospital offering secondary level medical services to an ethnically and socio-economically diverse population. Clinical Psychology services are provided to the Neonatal Unit, Paediatric Gastroenterology team, General Paediatric clinics, Children & Young People's Diabetes team, POSCU and other specialities.

Clinical:

1. 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 client's care.

2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

3. 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.

Teaching, training, and supervision

1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service as agreed with the professional psychology manager.

3. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work as appropriate.

4. To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee, assistant Clinical Psychologists.

General

1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholder's professional and service manager(s).

2. To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.

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