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Clinical Psychologist; Paediatric Psychology/Neonatal Services 

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to work on the Neonatal Unit at the Princess Royal Hospital, Telford (0.5 WTE) and in our Shropshire Paediatric Psychology Service, primarily with our children's community nursing teams (0.4 WTE). 

We are offering a preceptorship pathway from Agenda for Change Band 7 to 8a, on completion of the required competencies. 

The Paediatric Psychology Service provides targeted input into several multi-disciplinary teams across Shropshire and works closely with the children’s community nursing team. We are a welcoming, well-established team of Psychologists, with a shared passion for continuously improving and promoting positive outcomes for babies and children/young people with physical health conditions. This role is well supported by professional leadership structures and will benefit from the support of the Neonatal Network Community of Practice. The post holder will work closely alongside another Clinical Psychologist on the unit. The role involves working with families and staff and becoming embedded into this passionate team of varied Medical and Allied Health professionals.

There will be regular opportunities for CPD, neonatal/paediatric peer supervision, service development and collaborating with psychology colleagues across our Integrated Care System. 

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The main duties of this role involve providing evidence-based, psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for babies, children and their families, aimed at reducing distress and promoting positive health and wellbeing outcomes.

The role will also involve working indirectly with neonatal and community nursing colleagues, sharing psychological skills and approaches and promoting psychologically informed care, through supervision, consultation and multi-disciplinary team working.

There will be scope to provide supervision for nursing and psychology colleagues and contribute to service audit, evaluation and development projects within the role. 

The successful applicant will be a compassionate and committed team worker, with previous experience within paediatric psychology settings and a strong passion for making a positive difference to the lives of babies, children and families in this setting.  Skills in making psychological theory and approaches accessible to colleagues in other disciplines will be key to this role. This post is advertised at a time of real opportunity for embedding and further developing psychological practice in physical healthcare settings. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

The Paediatric Psychology Service sits within the organisation's children and families service delivery group.