Job summary
- Main area
- Practitioner Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 337-NP-7581NR-A
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Central Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- Per Annum pro rata Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Practitioner Psychologist in Gastroenterology
Band 8b
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
Are you keen to use and develop your psychological skills to help gastrointestinal patients at the internationally renowned St Mark’s Hospital? If so, you might also be keen on joining a Trust that is making significant investments in developing its psychology services.
This opportunity to develop and lead two new psychology sub-teams sits within the Psychological Medicines Unit (PMU) at Central Middlesex Hospital. The specialities are psychogastroenterology with the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Team and the Neurogastroenterology pathway for St Mark’s Hospital. Psychodynamic skills are especially relevant to these settings, and we welcome applicants with these additional trainings.
This is an exceptionally interesting setting for psychologists working at the interface of mental and physical health. We recognise that it may be an unfamiliar service setting, so really welcome informal enquires from psychologists who would like to understand more about the role before deciding whether to submit an application. This video will explain more about the PMU https://youtu.be/IUqrfHOYH30
PMU is a friendly and supportive service led by a consultant psychologist who will provide support and management. The team benefits from a dedicated pathway coordinator and Consultant Psychiatrist with special interest in IBD.
Informal enquiries or visits are very welcome.
Contact: Dr Sonya Frearson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. [email protected]
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within PMU and provide leadership to specific subservices. In the first instance, this relates to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Neurogastroenterology.
Embedding the PMU service into different sub-specialities the post holder will be expected to identify priorities for service development, implement and evaluate these initiatives through evaluation, audit and research alongside the PMU Consultant Clinical Psychologist. The post holder will lead on engaging service users to support the development of services offered.
The post holder will provide a high quality evidenced based psychology service. The role will have a significant clinical component, providing assessment, formulation and psychological therapies to gastroenterology patients and supporting adjustment within a rehabilitation framework. The post will require multi-disciplinary team working and liaison with other services relevant to the patient (other psychology/mental health teams and departments).
The post holder will contribute indirect support to multi-disciplinary team (MDT) colleagues through reflective practice groups and MDT meetings. PMU is developing a ‘Stepped Care’ approach, working with non-specialist colleagues to ensure that all patients receive psychological care appropriate to their level of need.
The post holder will provide leadership and undertake appropriate managerial and supervisory duties of qualified and assistant psychologists.
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1. Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. Eligible for BPS Chartered Psychology Status and registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- 2. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
- 3. Registered with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
- 4. Completion of formal training in clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Masters or other post graduate training in health psychology or models of psychological therapy relevant to the health setting
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge of complex methods of psychological assessment including the theory, evidence base and application of psychological approaches and interventions for people with physical health conditions including cancer and under palliative care.
- Highly-developed knowledge in approaches to consultation provided to multidisciplinary services and other professional/non-professional groups
- Well-developed knowledge of the use clinical governance to support and maintain good clinical practice.
- Well-developed knowledge of the needs of individuals from diverse social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and experience of applying clinical health psychology within this context.
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist within a multidisciplinary team with adults presenting with physical health problems, presenting problems that reflect the whole life span, full range of clinical severity and full range of care settings including inpatient, outpatient, community, and residential care settings
- Ability to demonstrate leadership skills in relation to exercising clinical responsibility for service users psychological care and treatment and for professional actions within the roles of clinical psychologist, keyworker/care co-ordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Compassionate, flexible, sensitive and committed with an enthusiasm for multi-disciplinary working and a thoughtful approach to developing psychological services within this context
- Experience of developing and facilitating staff teaching and training for psychologists, the wider multidisciplinary service. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care and actively working to promote effective team working. Experience of representing psychology within the wider organisation.
HEART values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate commitment to Trust HEART values: honesty, equity, accountability, respect, and teamwork
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 Sonya Frearson
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Head of PMU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 453 2390
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