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Senior Clinical Psychologist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
232-STO-5246631
Employer
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Bennett Centre
Town
Stoke-on-Trent
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 pro rata, per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/06/2023 23:59

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North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust logo

COVID-19 Vacancy Senior Clinical Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Are you a Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about delivering compassionate support to families accessing the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit? Do you want to make the most of an exciting opportunity to join an innovative multidisciplinary team? Do you want to work creatively to develop clinical psychology as part of the NICU MDT?

This is a varied Clinical Psychology role; providing assessment, formulation and intervention to families accessing the NICU; working creatively to support staff teams providing care in a challenging but rewarding setting; with support, developing psychology as part of the NICU MDT.

The post holder would join our friendly multi-disciplinary team based on the NICU, working closely with the expanding perinatal psychology team (within community perinatal mental health services).

We offer excellent clinical supervision and support. There are a wide range of CPD opportunities available. The post is hospital based and will involve a combination of face to face and remote working.

Interview can be virtual or face to face.  The post is part-time for 30 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical psychology input to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Royal Stoke University Hospital. The goal is to ensure an optimum quality of care to parents and families of babies within the unit, offering psychological and emotional support where appropriate. Additionally, the post holder will be able to work dynamically with the care system to influence psychologically informed care. The role will require extensive MDT working on the unit.

The post holder will work collaboratively with families and teams, in a holistic and insightful way, offering the most appropriate support, signposting and additional support services as required. This will involve working closely with antenatal, post natal and community services to provide a seamless service all families. An innovative and flexible approach to psychological assessment, formulation and intervention will be required.

The local community is diverse and as such, the post holder will work with people from all cultural backgrounds and ages, being committed to promote health equality. The post holder will work very closely across a multi- agency partnership.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values.  These are:

Proud to CARE:

Compassionate

Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.

Approachable

Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open

Responsible

Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions

Excellent

Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

About the unit

The Neonatal Unit at Royal Stoke University Hospital, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, is a busy and dynamic Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

There are 26 cots in total: 10 x intensive care cots, 6 x High Dependency cots and 14 x Special Care cots. There is a 10 bedded Transitional Care Unit and a Neonatal Community Outreach Team, who support discharge from the NICU and transition to home.

There are approximately 6500-6800 births per year a Royal Stoke University Hospital, at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.

The Neonatal Unit at UHNM supports approximately 600 admissions per year.

We provide care at all levels, to babies and their families, from within Stoke and Stafford area, regionally within the West Midlands Neonatal Network, and beyond.

We care for babies born at 22 weeks gestation to >42weeks gestation.

Admission to the unit is via the Delivery Suite, directly linked to the NICU, and can be via planned or emergency delivery.

Joining the NICU Team at RSUH, UHNM will mean that you are joining a driven and motivated team, who strive to provide care, with babies and families, at the core of everything we do.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working effectively as a qualified clinical psychologist with adults and/or children with complex psychological needs.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Theoretical and applied knowledge of psychological approaches to adjustment to physical illness including specialised psychological assessments and interventions for clients with complex presentations and/or challenging behaviour

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rebecca Hutton
Job title
Principal Clinical psychologist
Email address
rebecca.hutton@combined.nhs.uk
Telephone number
0300 123 1769
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