Paediatric Clinical Psychologist

We currently have an exciting opportunity for the post of Clinical Psychologist within the tertiary Paediatrics Retinoblastoma Service and Paediatric Liaison Team, based at the Royal London Children's Hospital, Whitechapel. The Paediatric Retinoblastoma Service is a national service and the post will involve 2 days working with this service and 3 days within a wider Paediatric Liaison Team at the Royal London Children's Hospital consisting of paediatric practitioner psychologists, child psychiatry, mental health nurse and art therapy.

The appointment is at a band 7 and suitable for recently qualified Clinical Psychologists or clinical psychologists currently working at Band 7 and seeking to gain experience working in paediatrics.

The successful candidate will provide specialist psychological intervention to children who have eye cancers and their families as well as offering specialist advice and consultation on the children and young peoples' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and contributing to psychologically informed care as part of the MDT. The post will also include working across other paediatric specialities and general paediatrics to deliver psychological care to children and young people with acute and chronic physical health conditions as both inpatient and outpatient.

Main duties of the job

The job role will be split between offering clinical psychology input for two days a week to the retinoblastoma team and three days a week working with the paediatric liaison team.

The retinoblastoma team is one of two national teams who offer diagnosis and treatment of children with rare eye cancer. The team is made up surgeons, clinical nurse specialists, play specialist, support worker, opthamologist and psychologist. The majority of children seen are under the age of five years so a significant proportion of work is parent support.

The Paediatric Liaison Team is a specialist multidisciplinary team (Psychology, psychiatry, mental health nursing and art psychotherapy) that provides a psychological health service to Children's services at Barts Health NHS Trust. The paediatric service at the Royal London Hospital is a regional service with over 100 in-patient beds and 10 specialist medical teams.The paediatric liaison team offering specialised assessment, formulations and interventions to young people with acute and chronic health conditions both as inpatient and outpatient. They also offer advice and consultation to medical teams within the children's hospital. The role will also utilise their research skills to contribute to service audit and development when needed.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

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