Job overview

Part time 18.75 hours per week

Location: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and Royal Hampshire County Hospital

Role Description: 

• Are you an experienced and enthusiastic clinical psychologist looking for flexible working whilst still receiving outstanding development? We are seeking to recruit a practitioner psychologist to join our small, friendly and highly valued paediatric psychology team.  
• We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible individual who is interested in developing effective, innovative, efficient services with good quality outcomes for children, young people and their families living with chronic health conditions, to improve their quality of life and well-being.

• The successful candidate will provide evidence-based psychological interventions to children and young people referred with a broad range of physical health conditions including; cystic fibrosis, respiratory, cardiac, epilepsy, oncology, allergies, chronic pain, and persistent physical symptom presentations.   We provide outpatient assessment and therapy and some inpatient input. 

• This is a permanent, 0.5 - 18.75 hours per week, part-time band 8a position cross site position.

Main duties of the job

To work as an autonomous practitioner providing a high quality, specialist paediatric psychology service to children, young people, their families or carers.  The role is to provide interventions for the general paediatric psychology provision for child health. 

To support psychological practice within the multidisciplinary paediatric diabetes team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to trainee, junior psychologists and other staff.  To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.  To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Paediatric Psychology team. 

Working for our organisation

Who we are:

We are a dynamic and friendly psychology team who value patient centred care.  We are enthusiastic about innovative, flexible and creative approaches to therapy and increasing access to evidence-based psychological support for children and young people with medical conditions. 

We have developed good links with the D. Clin course at the University of Southampton, whose trainees come on placement with us. 

About the trust:

The vision at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to provide outstanding care for every patient.  We serve a population of nearly 600,000 people across Hampshire and West Berkshire as well as some people who access our specialist services from across the country.

Created in January 2012 the Foundation Trust prioritises the provision of exceptional, compassionate, care delivered by the valued staff working in a culture of collaboration and mutual respect. HHFT employ more than 6,000 staff and our turnover in 2018/19 was £424million.

Four core values (CARE) Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Encourage. These are in place to support our four clear objectives, provide outstanding care of patients, empowering all members of staff, sustainable growth and innovating for the future.

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