Job summary
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
The recruitment team at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) are delighted to be able to offer a fantastic opportunity for a patient focused, friendly and enthusiastic individual, providing substantive, part time Clinical Psychology input to Bursledon House within Southampton Children's Hospital. We are looking for candidates who ideally have experience of working with children and families in a paediatric setting and an enthusiasm for collaborative working.
The Child Clinical Psychology department consists of 20 plus Clinical Psychologists and three Admin staff as well as Trainees and Assistants. We are an extremely friendly and supportive team with good arrangements for supervision and further learning. The Child Psychology team provides a strong and supportive base from which we can give our best to the children and families we meet, as well as to our multidisciplinary colleagues. As a team we place a strong emphasis on self-care and on supporting one another. This means that there are clear job plans and people are encouraged to maintain a good work-life balance. The positive working atmosphere and the opportunities for development mean we have a long track record of retaining staff with the team.
About us
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a 0.4 wte job at band 8a as a clinical psychologist in our team. The main duties will involve therapeutic clinical work with children, young people and their families living with complex and often chronic health conditions, including gastroenterological conditions.
You will be required to provide specialist psychological assessments of children and young people (inpatients) referred from paediatric specialities such as gastroenterology, diabetes, neurology and general paediatrics, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources, including psychological tests, neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, family members and others involved in the childs care.
The role will involve using advanced theoretical and practical knowledge to provide Clinical Psychology input as appropriate. This will require skills such as undertaking neuropsychological assessment of children of all ages, providing psychological support to the staff who work with children and young people, providing evidence-based therapies to children, therapeutic input to the family and wider system around the child, and devising psychological strategies to assist children in adapting to diagnoses and in adhering to medical treatment regimes.
You will work closely with other clinical psychologists in providing specialist psychological support to the families of children diagnosed with a chronic illness, providing psychological support to the staff who support these children and young people, providing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and other evidence-based therapies to children, and devising psychological strategies to assist children in adhering to medical treatment regimes.
You will need to liaise with members of the paediatric teams supporting these families to establish ways in which clinical psychology can be of most use to their services. This is likely to include having therapeutic input with children who show unexplained or inconsistent symptoms, supporting children and families in managing treatment plans, working with families adjusting to new diagnoses in their children and assisting families with the psychological implications of diagnoses.
You will need experience of assessing and working with children and young people with a whole range of emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families/carers, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of settings including outpatient, community, educational and residential. You will need experience of working in an acute paediatric setting and/or experience of working with children and families experiencing issues related to loss, bereavement, long term medical needs, severe illness or injury. Many children and young people we support find it difficult to comply with medical procedures or regimens and you will be instrumental in helping navigate and overcome these obstacles. You will also need experience of carrying out neuropsychological assessments with children and young people. And the role requires of you a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems. You will need to be able to represent clinical psychology in the context of multidisciplinary care and in a continually changing environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a 0.4 wte job at band 8a as a clinical psychologist in our team. The main duties will involve therapeutic clinical work with children, young people and their families living with complex and often chronic health conditions, including gastroenterological conditions.
You will be required to provide specialist psychological assessments of children and young people (inpatients) referred from paediatric specialities such as gastroenterology, diabetes, neurology and general paediatrics, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources, including psychological tests, neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, family members and others involved in the childs care.
The role will involve using advanced theoretical and practical knowledge to provide Clinical Psychology input as appropriate. This will require skills such as undertaking neuropsychological assessment of children of all ages, providing psychological support to the staff who work with children and young people, providing evidence-based therapies to children, therapeutic input to the family and wider system around the child, and devising psychological strategies to assist children in adapting to diagnoses and in adhering to medical treatment regimes.
You will work closely with other clinical psychologists in providing specialist psychological support to the families of children diagnosed with a chronic illness, providing psychological support to the staff who support these children and young people, providing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and other evidence-based therapies to children, and devising psychological strategies to assist children in adhering to medical treatment regimes.
You will need to liaise with members of the paediatric teams supporting these families to establish ways in which clinical psychology can be of most use to their services. This is likely to include having therapeutic input with children who show unexplained or inconsistent symptoms, supporting children and families in managing treatment plans, working with families adjusting to new diagnoses in their children and assisting families with the psychological implications of diagnoses.
You will need experience of assessing and working with children and young people with a whole range of emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families/carers, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of settings including outpatient, community, educational and residential. You will need experience of working in an acute paediatric setting and/or experience of working with children and families experiencing issues related to loss, bereavement, long term medical needs, severe illness or injury. Many children and young people we support find it difficult to comply with medical procedures or regimens and you will be instrumental in helping navigate and overcome these obstacles. You will also need experience of carrying out neuropsychological assessments with children and young people. And the role requires of you a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems. You will need to be able to represent clinical psychology in the context of multidisciplinary care and in a continually changing environment.
Person Specification
Trust Values
Essential
- Patient First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential
- Postgraduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the Health Professions Council
- Experience of assessing and working with children and young people with a whole range of emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families/carers, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of settings including outpatient, community, educational and residential.
- Experience of working in an acute paediatric setting and/or experience of working with children and families experiencing issues related to loss, bereavement, long term medical needs, severe illness or injury.
- Experience of providing psychological management for children and young people who find it difficult to comply with medical procedures or regimens.
- Experience of carrying out neuropsychological assessments with children and young people.
- Familiarity with maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and challenging behaviour including physical abuse.
- Experience of representing Psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care
- Experience of working in a constantly changing environment.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of one or more highly specialised psychological therapies, e.g. family therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Experience in using and interpreting a wide range of psychometric tests, neuropsychological tests and other standardised assessment measures, and of objective observation, recording and analysis of behaviour.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of Clinical Psychology. 8. Knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to children and young people with mental health problems and complex emotional and behaviour of difficulties.
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Good understanding of the meaning of clinical supervision/mentoring.
- 1. An understanding of equality within the workforce and how it can impact on this post. 2. Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. 3. Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Further post-doctoral training in the psychological assessment and treatment of children and young people with acute and chronic illnesses and life-limiting conditions, acquired through structured clinical supervision, self-study and attendance at relevant courses. Training in restraint, e.g. SCIP
Person Specification
Trust Values
Essential
- Patient First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential
- Postgraduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the Health Professions Council
- Experience of assessing and working with children and young people with a whole range of emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families/carers, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of settings including outpatient, community, educational and residential.
- Experience of working in an acute paediatric setting and/or experience of working with children and families experiencing issues related to loss, bereavement, long term medical needs, severe illness or injury.
- Experience of providing psychological management for children and young people who find it difficult to comply with medical procedures or regimens.
- Experience of carrying out neuropsychological assessments with children and young people.
- Familiarity with maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and challenging behaviour including physical abuse.
- Experience of representing Psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care
- Experience of working in a constantly changing environment.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of one or more highly specialised psychological therapies, e.g. family therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Experience in using and interpreting a wide range of psychometric tests, neuropsychological tests and other standardised assessment measures, and of objective observation, recording and analysis of behaviour.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of Clinical Psychology. 8. Knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to children and young people with mental health problems and complex emotional and behaviour of difficulties.
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Good understanding of the meaning of clinical supervision/mentoring.
- 1. An understanding of equality within the workforce and how it can impact on this post. 2. Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. 3. Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Further post-doctoral training in the psychological assessment and treatment of children and young people with acute and chronic illnesses and life-limiting conditions, acquired through structured clinical supervision, self-study and attendance at relevant courses. Training in restraint, e.g. SCIP
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
