Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Health Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 387-WC5126-DA
- Employer
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Practitioner Psychologist
Band 8a
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Job overview
We are looking for a thoughtful, compassionate and innovative Specialist Clinical Psychologist, who is keen to be at the forefront of a new multi-professional service delivered in a paediatric health setting. Therapeutic staff working into the NHS Children and Young People Gender Service (South West) will work within Psychological Health Services. As part of an Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) they will develop, deliver and evaluate specified services provided by a range of clinicians and health professionals, including clinical services, research and quality improvement including dissemination, and training and consultation to other partner services and agencies. As well as providing services into the new clinical programme, all staff will have other clinical and professional roles depending on skills, interests and service demands. These may include Staff Support.
Psychological Health Services is an award-winning department, recognised for a commitment to leadership and the development of Trustwide psychological services. As a university teaching trust research and quality improvement forms part of UHBW's mission to support excellence in delivery of patient care, alongside education and applied research of the highest quality.
Main duties of the job
- To provide clinical psychology services into teams within Women and Children Service, primarily but not exclusively within the NHS Children and Young People Gender Service (South West). To share with the multi professional clinical team, through joint working, consultation, training and service development activities, psychological knowledge and skills to enable individualised psychological care in partnership with young people.
- To participate in research and audit activity in collaboration with other professional groups and other providers as appropriate, to increase the evidence base and support the sharing of good practice in psychological and social care for the young people receiving services.
- To provide effective line management, clinical supervision and training for psychologists and other staff as requested by the CYPGS Clinical lead, and the Head Psychological Health Services.
- To provide a clinical health placement and opportunities for research for trainees as requested.
- To advise and work with the CYPGS Clinical lead and Head of Psychological Health Services to develop and implement: service developments, policies, protocols and guidelines relating to the psychological services provided for this population.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience of working as a clinical psychologist with children and young people who have a condition relating to health.
- Post qualification experience of working as a clinical psychologist providing psychological consultation, case management supervision and training to multi-professional and multi-agency teams
- Post qualification experience of and demonstrable understanding of working as a clinical psychologist within a multi-disciplinary physical health setting
- Formal teaching /presentation sessions to health and other professionals
- The implications of acute and long-term conditions and disability for young people/adults as applicable
- Demonstrable knowledge of legislation and guidance pertaining to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, consent, confidentiality and standards of psychological care within relevant NICE and other guidance
- Evidence of applying doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Evidence of having worked in an area of clinical practice providing insight to CYP with gender diversity
- Knowledge of the theory and practice relevant to specialised psychological assessments and interventions for CYP with gender diversity
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment of common mental health difficulties experienced by CYP with gender diversity
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess the psychological needs of, children, young people and families, including the use of cognitive and developmental psychometric tests
- Ability to generate systemic and individual psychological formulations and interventions based on applying psychological theories and models to the complex information generated by the young person/adult and social care systems
- Ability to access, record and manage information and data pertaining to the work undertaken in medical and psychology notes, data bases and electronic records as required
- Ability to prioritise and manage available time for clinical work and professional activities effectively and safely
- Able to travel to regional clinics, meetings and home visits if required
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information
- Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data
- Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
Desirable criteria
- To be skilled in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in clinical psychology, Counselling psychology or equivalent
- Current registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
- Training course in clinical supervision
Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Advanced communication skills with the ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information to and from young people/adults in a culturally appropriate manner in highly emotive situations. This will include the ability to provide complex psychological information to staff in an accessible manner
- The ability to work with curiosity in a contested area where work practice may be criticised publicly
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
- Dr Hannah Connell
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
United Bristol Healthcare Trust
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Marlborough Street
Bristol
Success
BS2 8HW
- Telephone
- 01173425000 (option 1)
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