Practitioner Psychologist in Paediatric & Young Adult Liver

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as a Practitioner Psychologist focusing on Paediatric and Young Adult Liver services. You'll play a crucial role in providing psychological care, assessment, and treatment to children and their families, contributing to an innovative team committed to diverse patient needs in a dynamic healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Professional registration with HCPC.
• Experience working with children and young people.
• Skills in cognitive and neurodevelopmental evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychology services to children and young people under the Paediatric Liver teams.
• Conduct assessment, formulation, and treatment planning.
• Ensure multi-disciplinary care incorporates psychological wellbeing.

Skills

Assessment

Treatment Planning

Clinical Supervision

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

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Due to further investment from NHS England, we are excited to offer opportunities for Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologists to join the Paediatric Psychology Team at King’s College Hospital, inputting into the Liver team. The roles (up to 1.6 WTE available) will input into our children and young people's liver services.

The successful post holder will input into the delivery and operationalisation of an integrated model of psychological care for children and young people with medical needs. The post holder will provide specialist screening, assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.

We are looking for enthusiastic, creative and flexible psychologists to become part of this innovative psychology team serving a diverse inner-city population with an unparalleled case mix. Specialist paediatric and clinical health psychology across all ages has a long tradition at King’s College Hospital, and you will be joining a group of psychology and mental health professionals who are dedicated and supportive.

Applications from band 7 preceptorship role are also welcome.

To provide a comprehensive clinical psychology service to children, young people and their families under the Paediatric Liver teams at King's College Hospital.

• Assessment, formulation, evidence-based treatment and implementation and monitoring of outcomes, including cognitive and neurodevelopmental evaluation.
• Together with senior colleagues, to ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service, with onwards referrals according to local pathways.
• Ensuring that psychological wellbeing is being considered in the planning and delivery of multidisciplinary care to all patients.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation to non-psychology colleagues as appropriate.
• To undertake and contribute to service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
  
  

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jemma Day Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0203 299 3778

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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