Looking for an exciting challenge with an opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge whilst enjoying your job? Specialist Children and Young People’s Services (SCYPS) in Newham have the perfect opportunity for you to join us in the role of Specialist Clinical Psychologist with the Diana Children’s Community Palliative Care Psychology and Play Service.
You will provide high quality and holistic care to the families of babies, children and young people with life‑threatening/limiting conditions (including bereaved families), alongside providing specialist advice, consultation and teaching for the professional networks supporting children with palliative and end of life care needs in Newham.
You will be working as part of a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team with good links to national and pan‑London palliative care networks.
You will be joining a service which aspires to provide care of the highest quality, in collaboration with those who use our services. We embrace continuous improvement and learning and you will be instrumental in leading the service to think differently, be innovative, and give everyone, at every level, the skills they need to lead change.
This is a 0.8 Band 7 post and is a permanent appointment. While this post is offered at 0.8 WTE and paid pro‑rata, there may be scope to increase hours to full‑time depending on the successful candidate’s preference and service demands.
Main duties of the job
In SCYPS we provide a range of services to support the residents who reside within the London Borough of Newham. Newham is culturally the most diverse of all London boroughs, with people from a rich variety of ethnic, religious, and linguistic backgrounds.
The Diana Palliative Care Team within SCYPS provides a multidisciplinary service for babies, children and young people who have a range of palliative diagnoses (for example Edwards Syndrome, Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Palliative Oncology Conditions) at various stages on their journey from receiving prognosis, through living with the condition and medical interventions, symptom management, end‑of‑life care and bereavement.
Working closely with community children’s nurses, health play specialist, clinical psychologists and family therapist team colleagues in the Diana Team, you will deliver a high‑quality community clinical psychology assessment, therapy and consultation service for young people living with complex life‑shortening health conditions, their families, the professional networks around them and bereaved families.
You will need excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and be highly motivated, caring and passionate about improving the healthcare and wellbeing of the people of Newham. You will work in an environment that actively supports continuous professional development.
Person Specification
Educational/Qualifications
- oRegistration as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC
- oDoctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometric and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- oPre‑qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- oFurther training in paediatric psychology and/or systemic practice
Experience
- oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- oExperience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and possible conflict
- oExperience of working in a paediatric psychology and/or community child learning disability setting
- oExperience of working collaboratively with families / therapy with more than one client in the room
- oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- oExperience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- oExperience of working in palliative care and/or bereavement
- oExperience of facilitating consultation / reflective practice groups for health care workers
- oExperience of service user involvement projects
Knowledge and skills
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- oWell‑developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- oSkills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups oDoctoral level knowledge of research
- oDoctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
- oKnowledge/Skills in the application of psychological models in a paediatric community health care setting
- oKnowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. children, young people and their families effected by complex health needs, learning disabilities and palliative care conditions)
- oHigh level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies and their application within the care group
- oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- oUnderstanding of the principles and ethics of children’s palliative care
- oKnowledge of models of working with diversity / social differences (ethnicity, culture spirituality, etc.)
Other
- oAbility to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi‑media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and behaviour which professionals can find challenging
- oKnowledge of models of staff support and consultation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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