Clinical Psychologist-Paediatrics

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical/Practitioner Psychologist to join our Clinical Psychology team for 20.5 hours per week on a secondment until 31st March 2027.

This post is part of an exciting project supporting the Complications of Excess Weight initiative across ESNEFT and NNUH. The post holder will work as part of a local MDT to support children and their families, working in collaboration with the CEW team at NNUH. Applicants are welcomed from Clinical and Practitioner Psychologists who are passionate about working with this client group. The post will be primarily based at Colchester Hospital but as clinics run across both sites the post holder will also be expected to work at Ipswich Hospital as and when needed.

The post holder will provide support to children and young people referred to the ESNEFT CEW service for psychological support. They will be responsible for overseeing psychology referrals and managing their own caseload. The role will involve working with children and young people as well as families, and external agencies such as mental health services, community partners and social care. Part of the role will involve consultation to other healthcare professionals and joint working with the CEW team at NNUH, linking in with their lead Clinical Psychologist for the CEW service. There will be opportunities to develop new service offers from the Psychology team.

Main duties of the job

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children in the Healthy Futures clinic, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient's care.

To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems that integrate psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.

Provide expertise, specialist advice, support and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the Paediatric multi-disciplinary teams in which children are supported, contributing directly to patients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. Evaluating and adjusting psychological formulations drawing on a range of theoretical and therapeutic models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Date posted

30 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year Per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

24 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

432-HR2110-24

Job locations

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Post graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology or other BPS accredited training in Clinical Psychology conferring eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist status, Or equivalent which gives Practitioner Psychologist Status with the HCPC
Accreditation with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

Training/ qualifications in specific therapeutic models applicable to Health Clinical Psychology (e.g. Mindfulness, ACT, Motivational Interviewing)

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of hospital care settings, including outpatient and inpatient and on occasion, in the patients home.
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different contexts.
Good understanding of other professionals theoretical perspectives of the patient group.

Desirable

Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience of working with families.
Experience of working with children and young people in a paediatric medical setting.
Experience of representing psychology within the context of an MDT

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Post graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology or other BPS accredited training in Clinical Psychology conferring eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist status, Or equivalent which gives Practitioner Psychologist Status with the HCPC
Accreditation with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

Training/ qualifications in specific therapeutic models applicable to Health Clinical Psychology (e.g. Mindfulness, ACT, Motivational Interviewing)

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of hospital care settings, including outpatient and inpatient and on occasion, in the patients home.
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different contexts.
Good understanding of other professionals theoretical perspectives of the patient group.

Desirable

Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience of working with families.
Experience of working with children and young people in a paediatric medical setting.
Experience of representing psychology within the context of an MDT

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.