Practitioner Psychologist Band 7
Accepting applications until: 27-Apr-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 27-Apr-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Evelina Children's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 p.a. inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Psychology
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 an innovative, welcoming team looking for an enthusiastic psychologist to join our Paediatric Sleep Service at the Evelina Children’s Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified practitioner psychologist with a strong interest in sleep, with prior experience in paediatric/CAMHS psychology or adult sleep services, to gain experience in a tertiary level multidisciplinary paediatric sleep service. For service information please see our website Sleep medicine services | Evelina London.
The post holder will contribute to the implementation of stepwise psychology/non-medical pathways for children and young people with sleep disorders and behavioural sleep problems, who may also have mental health issues related to their sleep and/or additional neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autism and ADHD.
The post holder will join an enthusiastic and skilled team of psychologists in specialist areas of Neurosciences and the wider Evelina London/GSTT NHS Trust. Dependent on interest, the post holder will have opportunities for shadowing and supporting discrete pieces of clinical work with other teams to widen breadth of experience. The post is supported by the Consultant Psychologists and other Lead Practitioner Psychologists within Neurosciences.
The practitioner psychologist will also have the opportunity of offering supervision to the team’s assistant psychologist or undergraduate placement student.
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Under supervision of the senior practitioner psychologist, the post-holder will contribute to the ongoing development and delivery of a high-quality Specialist Clinical Health Psychology Service for people aged up to 18 years with sleep disorders and families/carers. The provision of evidenced-based, time-limited psychological interventions to promote psychological well-being and physical health is a key requirement.
The post-holder will exercise autonomous professional responsibility for his/her own actions and will provide assessment (including cognitive assessment depending on the post holder’s competencies), therapeutic interventions, and psychosocial support to patients and their families (including 1-1 and groups), and play a role in the development of psychologically informed working practice within the areas. Group therapy support may occur on termly basis. The post holder is expected to collaborate with other members of the Sleep Service to achieve the service’s aims and to contribute to service developments in the area of understanding, evaluating, and managing people with haematological conditions.
The post involves frequent staff consultation and team formulation in the context of complex client working. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Working for our organisation
The Paediatric Neurosciences Service is a multi-disciplinary regional and national service that focuses on children and young people with neurological conditions (including inpatient and outpatient services, neuropsychology and neuro-rehabilitation for conditions such as acquired brain injury and cerebral palsy), and neurodevelopmental disorders (particularly autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, language and communication disorders, intellectual disability, Tics and Tourette’s, complex feeding and sleep problems). Services within neurosciences are largely tertiary and hospital based with growing service outreach to the community. The service specialises in the diagnosis and management of highly complex cases, which have a range of co-morbidities, including physical health and genetic conditions, acquired brain injury and associated challenges around functioning and coping, intellectual impairment, neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders, severe challenging behaviour and is composed of multidisciplinary teams each working in an integrated way to deliver care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached JD and Person Specification for full information. We would also strongly encourage potential applicants to make contact to discuss the role informally.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good honours degree in psychology.
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical, educational or health or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS.
- Eligibility for Chartered status with the BPS.
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within an acute or community health care/paediatrics setting.
- Experience of working psychologically with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of using evidence based psychological interventions (including cognitive behaviour therapy) for the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of psychological problems, working in both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams.
- Experience of providing both group based and individual psychological interventions.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of teaching and training other professionals in psychological concepts.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of psychological interventions, application and supervision of others particularly cognitive behaviour therapy and associated third wave approaches.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological, neuropsychological and behavioural assessment and intervention, requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A strong ability to communicate at both a written and oral level, imparting complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, and carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS. This may require negotiating, motivating, training, reassuring others and demonstrating empathy.
- Experience and ability to undertake risk assessment of client in relation to self and others, and refer on to appropriate services as necessary.
- Awareness of racial, cultural and diversity differences/issues through attendance of relevant training.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to effective team functioning.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging interactions.
- Ability to undertake research according to needs of the service, bringing doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis, as appropriate for the field of clinical health psychology.
Additional Information
Essential criteria
- Ability to maintain periods of prolonged concentration frequently throughout the day as required for complex methods of psychological assessment and delivery of interventions.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others. Commitment to continuing professional development, partnership working and to reflective clinical practise.
- Well-developed IT skills including data entry and analysis of research data using Microsoft programmes and appropriate statistical packages such as SPSS.
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sara Sopena
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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