Senior Clinical Psychologist

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Stoke; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join a newly established Paediatric Epilepsy Psychology Service. The role supports children and young people with epilepsy and offers specialist assessment and intervention within a multidisciplinary team.

You will contribute to service development, quality improvement and pathway development, with opportunities for professional development and clinical supervision.

Qualifications

• Experience primarily in mental health services.
• Strong interest in working with young people with physical health diagnoses.
• Understanding of the impact of physical health on mental health.

Responsibilities

• Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with Epilepsy based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
• Responsible for recognising signs of harm, abuse or neglect, and safeguarding of children at risk.
• Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice on risk.
• Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological work and manages clients' psychological distress.
• Implements highly skilled psychological formulations for clients, carers, staff, families and groups.
• Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and makes decisions about treatment options.
• Provides specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff.
• Contributes to service and system transformation with a focus on high quality care.

Skills

Experience in mental health services

Interest in paediatric psychology

Job description

Due to an exciting service development, we are seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join a newly established Paediatric Epilepsy Psychology Service.

This is an opportunity to help develop a specialist psychology service embedded within the UHNM. The service supports children, young people and families experiencing psychological difficulties associated with epilepsy.

You will provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention, alongside consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues. There will be opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement and pathway development.

You will join a small, supportive and enthusiastic Paediatric Psychology Team with strong links across UHNM, Physical Health Psychology and CAMHS. High-quality care, collaborative working, clinical supervision and professional development are priorities.

We welcome applications from psychologists with experience primarily in mental health services, provided they demonstrate a strong interest in working with young people with physical health diagnoses, and an understanding of the impact these can have on mental health.

For newly qualified psychologists, a preceptorship pathway to Band 8a will be considered, with appropriate support, supervision and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with Epilepsy based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
• Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
• Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological work and/or management of clients' psychological distress, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
• Implements the use of highly skilled psychological formulations for individual clients, carers, staff, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
• Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and makes decisions about treatment options.
• Provides highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to client's diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan.
• As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk).

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.