Job summary
Employer heading
Paediatric Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
- Rated Good by the CQC
- Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
- Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
- Recognised as a centre of excellence, leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
- Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
- In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
- Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
- Patients first, always
- Excellence, in all we do
- Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
- Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
We are seeking a paediatric clinical psychologist to join our extended team at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
Paediatric psychology support is provided on the ward, outpatient clinic pre and post operatively, more recently we have provided a proportion of our psychology service virtually.
Working in the paediatric setting may present frequent exposure to highly emotive and distressing problems. Children, young people or their parents/carers may express verbal aggression. Whilst Trust policies and procedures highlight that behaviour of this nature is unacceptable, it may still occur
Main duties of the job
To co-ordinate and provide a specialist paediatric psychology service for children and young people at RNOH in outpatient and inpatient settings. To work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines to conduct specialist psychological assessments and interventions with children, their siblings, families and carers and offer advice and consultation to colleagues from health or other agencies about psychological aspects of the child’s care. To undertake research in the paediatric setting to study clinical practice or to contribute to audit and service planning.
Working for our organisation
RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To co-ordinate and provide a specialist paediatric psychology service for children and young people at RNOH in outpatient and inpatient settings. To work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines to conduct specialist psychological assessments and interventions with children, their siblings, families and carers and offer advice and consultation to colleagues from health or other agencies about psychological aspects of the child’s care. To undertake research in the paediatric setting to study clinical practice or to contribute to audit and service planning.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health psychology
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/health/counselling psychology
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology,
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with chronic pain conditions.
Applicant requirements
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
- Dr Mel Speakman
- Job title
- Divisional Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3947 0475
- Additional information
Clinical Director Paediatric Medicine - Dr Sherine Dewlett - Consultant Paediatrician - 020 3947 0475
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