Job overview
This exciting development opportunity is offered at band and involves the transition to a band a psychologist or Systemic Psychotherapist banding, with the expectation that you will have fulfilled and evidenced the competency requirements following a transitional period (usually - months). You will be appointed a preceptor (supervising psychologist) who will support your development and hold regular reviews of progress, to ensure that you can produce a portfolio evidencing your ability to fulfil the requirements and competencies of a band a psychologist/ Systemic Psychotherapist.
The purpose of this role is to provide a trauma informed service to families whose child is on PICU, as well as supporting the staff working with them. Bereavement work is a core part of this role.
The role will involve liaison with wider hospital colleagues, such as with colleagues on other paediatric wards, as well as liaison with hospice and community stakeholder teams surrounding the child and family’s care.
The role involves working with children in intensive care who have complex medical and surgical needs. The post holder is required to provide assessment, formulation and delivery of psychologically and systemically informed care, involving both the patient, parents/guardian and family systems where there are complex social needs.
Main duties of the job
To provide WTE (hrs per week) Clinical Psychology/ Systemic Psychotherapist post, on site & in person, based at Addenbrookes Hospital (CUH), supporting children who are patients in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, their families and staff team.
The post is part of the larger team for Psychological Medicine for Children Young People & Families, largely based within Addenbrooke’s Hospital and employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT).
The role will provide specialist psychological and assessment and therapy to children, young people and their families, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. Work is autonomous, notwithstanding the preceptorship, within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams’ policies and procedures. Also, to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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