Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Paediatric Clinical Psychologist to join our Major Trauma Centre at St George's Hospital. This role provides an opportunity to work with children and young people with serious and life changing injuries, their families and staff members working within the Major Trauma service.

The post holder will have the opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team where psychology is valued and well established. Alongside an active clinical role, the post holder will have opportunities to shape and develop psychological care pathways within the Major Trauma Centre as part of the Integrated Psychological Model of Care pilot.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will offer specialist psychological support to children and young people who are under the care of the Major Trauma Centre, ensuring a timely and equitable response to new referrals, robust screening of distress and the chance to offer specialist psychological intervention where appropriate. There are many opportunities, alongside the inpatient and outpatient work for staff teaching, training and consultation.

The majority of the face-to-face clinical work takes place on the surgical wards and in paediatric intensive care. There are opportunities to work creatively to deliver effective clinical psychology interventions.

About us

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course 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.
• Experience of psychological work with people with physical health problems.
• Experience in acute hospital inpatient settings

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of clinical health psychology in different cultural contexts.

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent),
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Formal training in supervision of trainee applied psychologists and related personnel

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Membership of the British Psychological Society / Division of Clinical Psychology / Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology

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.

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

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

London

SW170QT

Employer's website

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