Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Leave Cover.)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH- 7263318
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS (Pro-rata if LTFT)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 7
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
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Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic candidate to join our Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Liaison Team (CAPPLT) on a 12-month fixed term contract to cover the Maternity leave cover of a member of the team.
This role is offered full time in the first instance, but we also welcome applications for part time and job shares.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in the North Middlesex Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Paediatric Liaison Team (CAPPLT).
The postholder will provide a mixture of general paediatric work, alongside specific input for children with sickle cell disease and their families. They will be responsible for providing specialist clinical psychology input to the sickle cell and thalassemia service. This will include providing psychological assessments, cognitive assessments and therapeutic treatment within a multidisciplinary service, offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to parents, families, groups, paediatric, and other hospital staff, and consultation to other disciplines and professional networks, including staff from outside the hospital.
The postholder will receive clinical psychology supervision from a senior member of the Clinical Psychology discipline and will be responsible and accountable to the North Middlesex Head of Paediatric Liaison Psychological Therapies. The postholder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the Paediatric services policies and procedures.
The Post holder will be informed by evidence-based practice and participate in audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the paediatric liaison team.
Working for our organisation
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.
Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing.
We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.
For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Appropriate registration with the HCPC or eligibility to register in the next 3 months.
- Training in the use and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments with children.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Masters level or equivalent training in Systemic Family Therapy.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- An ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups, ideally within a physical health setting.
- Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and to staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to work as a constructive and collaborative team member in a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological and cognitive assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of working with Chronic illness, such as sickle cell disease.
- Experience of working with children and families.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of working in a multi professional network and awareness of such issues for networks and teams.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in Paediatric Liaison within a hospital inpatient and outpatient setting.
- Experience of working with patients living with sickle cell disease.iour
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.nd MDT colleagues
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Interest in understanding the experience of living with sickle cell disease - physically, emotionally, socially and systemically.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents including child protection procedures and policies.
- Knowledge of NHS, social care and education structures, national policies and frameworks.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practices within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. complex cases in specialist paediatrics).
- Skills in systemic family therapy.
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential criteria
- Self -motivated
- Ability to work constructively under pressure
- Positive attitude to this work
- Demonstrable commitment to multi - disciplinary team and multi -agency work
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic and motivated.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Professional approach to work.
- Accountability – Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working.
- Openness – Shares information and good practice appropriately.
- Mutual respect – Treats others with courtesy and respect.
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Pedraz
- Job title
- Head of CAPPLT Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 3231
- Additional information
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