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A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate practitioner psychologist to join a dedicated paediatric psychology team. The successful candidate will deliver evidence-based interventions for young patients facing chronic health challenges, ensuring high-quality care and innovative practices while working in a flexible environment. This is a part-time, 0.5-18.75 hours per week role, offering strong development opportunities in a supportive team.
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Job overview
Part time 18.75 hours per week
Location: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and Royal Hampshire County Hospital
Role Description:
Main duties of the job
To work as an autonomous practitioner providing a high quality, specialist paediatric psychology service to children, young people, their families or carers. The role is to provide interventions for the general paediatric psychology provision for child health.
To support psychological practice within the multidisciplinary paediatric diabetes team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to trainee, junior psychologists and other staff. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Paediatric Psychology team.
Working for our organisation
Who we are:
We are a dynamic and friendly psychology team who value patient centred care. We are enthusiastic about innovative, flexible and creative approaches to therapy and increasing access to evidence-based psychological support for children and young people with medical conditions.
We have developed good links with the D. Clin course at the University of Southampton, whose trainees come on placement with us.
About the trust:
The vision at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to provide outstanding care for every patient. We serve a population of nearly 600,000 people across Hampshire and West Berkshire as well as some people who access our specialist services from across the country.
Created in January 2012 the Foundation Trust prioritises the provision of exceptional, compassionate, care delivered by the valued staff working in a culture of collaboration and mutual respect. HHFT employ more than 6,000 staff and our turnover in 2018/19 was £424million.
Four core values (CARE) Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Encourage. These are in place to support our four clear objectives, provide outstanding care of patients, empowering all members of staff, sustainable growth and innovating for the future.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
HCPC Registration
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Post qualification training or service development
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Our commitment to you:
We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
The paperwork:
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.
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