Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative clinical psychologist with excellent clinical, leadership and management skills who is keen to lead the paediatric psychologists in the Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust. The paediatric team is small enough for us to know and support each other and share projects across specialities but big enough to be a force within the Trust.
Our paediatric psychology input is aligned to the heath specialities of diabetes, burns, cystic fibrosis, community neurodevelopment, spinal cord injury, neonates and long covid.
An important part of this role is to continue to drive energy towards developing more psychological resource using traditional service development and thinking of innovative methods to spread psychological mindedness across our paediatric colleagues. The current focus is on developing psychological input to epilepsy, functional neurological disorder and general paediatrics. Your voice will be important in helping the Trust understand the need for and models of paediatric psychology.
We are highly respected by our MDT colleagues and hospital management. The paediatric psychologists are part of a larger team of clinical health psychological professions, led by the Chief Psychological Professions Officer with whom you will work closely.
Main duties of the job
A main part of the role will be to continue the previous postholder's work and further increase the profile and understanding of the need for paediatric clinical psychology and to drive service development.
You will line manage and provide clinical supervision to 8b paediatric clinical psychologists, and specialist supervision to the clinical psychologists working in paediatrics as part of a lifespan role to ensure that a model of child centred work is upheld. In addition, you will consult into and supervise an assistant psychologist working in the long covid service.
You will lead regular paediatric psychology meetings for all paediatric clinical psychologists, clinical psychology traineesand assistant psychologists with the aim of maintainingcohesion, sharing skills, updates and overlapping interests to enable the children and young people in our care receive holistic, high quality psychological care.
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
1. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
2. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
3. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
4. We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
5. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
6. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
7. A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.
What do we stand for?
8. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
9. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
10. Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
11. Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 and those who trained abroad) as accredited by the BPS, or with a statement of equivalence from the BPS
12. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the British Psychological Society and HCPC
13. Post-doctoral training in a therapeutic model
14. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Desirable criteria
15. Leadership qualification / evidence of training in leadership
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
16. Supervised experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the lifespan and presenting with a wide range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, inpatient, community and residential care settings.
17. Experience of individual and group psychological interventions with C&YP with both acute and long term physical health problems.
18. Experience of leading and/or influencing across systems/partners including primary care
19. Experience of working as the senior psychologist in a C&YP clinical pathway, including reviewing and improving the psychological service.
20. Experience of collaborating with related health, social and voluntary services which may be required for patient care.
21. Experience of managing resources and allocating these strategically to meet the various demands on/needs of the service
22. Experience of planning and implementing changes in a service, even against resistance
Desirable criteria
23. Experience of presenting at national conferences
24. Experience of working with commissioners
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
25. Skills in assessing C&YP with complex psychological, health and social difficulties
26. Skills in providing consultation to other professional groups.
27. Skills in working effectively as part of a team and engaging in organisational innovations.
28. Knowledge and understanding of Integrated Care Systems
29. Able to identify priorities for service development, identify resources required and put forward a case to managers
30. Able to identify priorities for service development, identify resources required and put forward a case to managers
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
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Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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