Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 24 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Split post -0.5wte RBH, 0.5 wte CYPGS-London)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS8624
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital , London
- Town
- London UK
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inc. H.C.A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/07/2024
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist (CRIC and NHSCYPGS London)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are delighted to be recruiting to a newly created fixed term full time Practitioner Psychologist role. The successful applicant will be dedicating half their time joining a team of paediatric psychologists based at Royal Brompton Hospital and half their time with the newly formed Child and Young People Gender Service (CYPGS-London) established following the publication of the Cass Review Interim Report 2024.
Due to the new and unique nature of this post interested applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Michele Puckey [email protected] and Deborah Woodman [email protected] for further information about the role
Main duties of the job
Evelina CRIC Royal Brompton Hospital Site 0.5wte
The post holder will be based for this part of the role at Royal Brompton Hospital joining a thriving team of 5 other paediatric psychologists plus a full-time administrator. As part of the Cardiac, Respiratory and Critical care (CRIC) Directorate at Evelina Hospital, care is provided to child patients and their families and carers with heart and lung physical health conditions.
NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service-Southern Hub, London
The post holder will be required to join a new team of professionals providing children and young people with an in-depth assessment of their needs, and a care plan will be developed with them and, if needed, those supporting them. Children and young people will be offered a range of care interventions such as individual therapy, family therapy, physical health support, or other mental health support for identified difficulties they may want help with. The team will also liaise with health professionals and other statutory and non-statutory services local to the child or young person to provide a bespoke package of care.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to junior staff and be a source of clinical expertise to the multi- disciplinary team. You will enable other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
GSTT comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined GSTT February 2021 and the integrated paediatric Cardiac Respiratory and Intensive Care Directorate (CRIC) is the largest specialist heart and lung centre for children in the UK and among the largest in Europe.
We have around 22,700 staff, and aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service-Southern Hub, London
A new clinical pathway has been developed, based on the recommendations of The Cass Review Interim Report and the expertise of many clinicians from across he Northern and Southern Hubs.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the CYPGS at a positive time of change and evolution as more learning, research and evidence is developed. This post would suit applicants with a passion for service improvement, audit and research as well as excellent team and clinical skills.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Evelina CRIC Royal Brompton Hospital Site 0.5wte
The post holder will have an interest and be experienced in applying a range of psychological models in a flexible way, working directly with children, young people and their families with cardiac and/or respiratory physical health conditions. There will be indirect work via liaison and consultation with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies. The role will also include teaching and training MDT colleagues, research, and evaluation and development of the psychology services in both roles. Opportunities for continued professional development are actively encouraged and supported.
NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service-Southern Hub, London
The post holder will be required to join a new team of professionals providing children and young people with an in-depth assessment of their needs, and a care plan will be developed with them and, if needed, those supporting them. Children and young people will be offered a range of care interventions such as individual therapy, family therapy, physical health support, or other mental health support for identified difficulties they may want help with. The team will also liaise with health professionals and other statutory and non-statutory services local to the child or young person to provide a bespoke package of care.
The post holder will have an interest and be experienced in applying a range of psychological models based on research evidence, guidelines and standards of care 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. The role will also include teaching and training MDT colleagues, research, and evaluation and development of the psychology services in both roles. Opportunities for continued professional development are actively encouraged and supported.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience
- Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring across at least 2 populations utilising at least 2 therapeutic models including CBT.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of supervising pre-qualified psychologists including post-graduate students and other disciplines.
- Experience of providing both group based and individual interventions using evidence based psychological approaches
- Experience designing, conducting and leading on research activities at a doctorate level including service related research and audits
- Experience of teaching, training health professionals in psychological concepts
Desirable criteria
- Experience working with CYP
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients within a physical health context, and a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Experience working with children and young people experiencing gender related distress
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to cope with challenging caseloads and ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Ability to assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
- Ability to or working towards a supervision qualification with a view of supervising band 7 psychologist and pre-qualified psychologists with a clear understand of theory and practice of psychology.
- Knowledge of psychological interventions, application and supervision of others
- Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Qualifications/Education
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
- Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS)
Desirable criteria
- Practitioner psychologist
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michele Puckey
- Job title
- Consultant Paediatric Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07791547750
- Additional information
Please note Michele Puckey will be on leave week beginning 01st July 2024. Interested applicants are welcome to contact Deborah Woodman [email protected] for further information about each role of the post during this time
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