Principal Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative clinician to join the Department of Psychological Medicine ina newly commissioned post to provide psychological support and intervention for the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) in Grimsby and Scunthorpe, and the Paediatric Diabetes Service across North and North East Lincolnshire.

The post involves providing direct and indirect psychotherapeutic interventions. Multidisciplinary team working is key to this role and therefore the post also involves liaising with service managers, clinical team leads and allied health professionals to support the provision of a specialist clinical psychology service for young people, families and staff in Neonatal and Diabetes services. The post holder will be expected to support the development of these new services in collaboration with leads for the Neonatal and Paediatric Diabetes services.

This post is suited to someone with an interest in, or experience in, working with children, young people, families and teams in acute and community health care services. However, if you have recently qualified, or are due to qualify soon, we would welcome your application.

The post will be supervised and supported by the Principal Clinical Psychologist for Neonatal Psychology, and the Principal Clinical Psychologist for Paediatric Diabetes Psychology Service in the Department of Psychological Medicine.

Main duties of the job

To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention for Neonatal and Paediatric Diabetes services in North and North East Lincolnshire in the context of integrated and comprehensive multidisciplinary specialist health services.

For full details, please see the Job Description.

About us

NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/

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We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• oPost-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, knowledge of two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• oTo be a fully registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council.

Desirable

• oMember of the British Psychological Society.
• oPost-qualification training in approaches and therapies appropriate for neonatal and peadiatric diabetes settings context e.g. working with attachment, trauma, systems/ family therapy and bereavement

Occupational experience and abilities

Essential

• oExperience of working with a variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• oExperience of working across a variety of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
• oExperience of exercising clinical responsibility for a client's psychological care and treatment, both individually and in liaison with other relevant professionals involved in the patient's care
• oExperience of providing support and intervention systemically to family and/or carers.
• oExperience of compiling and providing teaching and training sessions.
• oExperience of working in multidisciplinary teams or services.
• oFormal training in supervision and experience of providing supervision to clinical psychologists and/or AHPs.
• oExperience of service development and supporting implementation of national guidelines for service delivery.
• oAbility to be resilient in highly distressing and emotive situations in order to support families and staff.
• oKnowledge of child safeguarding policies and national guidance and how and when these should be implemented.

Desirable

• oExperience of undertaking relevant practice based research.
• oExperience working psychologically with a client group or in a setting relevant to Neonatal Psychology and Paediatric Diabetic Psychology e.g. Paediatrics, Infant mental health, working with families, Perinatal or Maternity settings, CAMHS Health.
• oExperience of working through an interpreter
• oSpecialist knowledge of psychological, physical health and medical interventions relating to infant mental health, maternal health, occupational health and medical psychology areas
• oKnowledge/experience of MDT group working i.e. reflective practice and supervision groups
• oKnowledge of legislation and national policies and guidance in relation to Neonatal Psychological care, Maternity care and Paediatric Diabetic care.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• oMust be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of core trust values and be able to articulate in practice
• oA good listener and good communicator who works well with other people. Is open, has an approachable manner and is flexible and friendly. Has integrity and is honest and open about mistakes.
• oWell organized and able to self-direct own study and learning in relation to new service area
• oGood time management and prioritization skills
• oAbility to deal with frequent exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
• oAbility to maintain intense concentration on a frequent basis.
• oAble to work within remit of own knowledge and skills and utilize supervision appropriately to identify areas of concern or for personal and professional development.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust - Cross-site

Scunthorpe, Grimsby, and Goole

DN33 2BA

Employer's website

https://www.nlg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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