Senior Clinical Psychologist

TheLeeds Childrens Hospital is looking to recruit an 8a Clinical Psychologist tojoin our thriving Paediatric Psychology team. Whilst we can offer 1.0 WTE inthis 12-month fixed term post, we would also be open to restructuring the coverfor hours between 0.6-1.0 WTE. The clinical responsibilities included in thepost will be adjusted accordingly.

Thepost holder will have the opportunity to work alongside established ClinicalPsychology colleagues to support the Regional Paediatric Diabetes, Chronic Painand Cystic Fibrosis teams through multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and outpatientworking, as well as contributing towards the Department's inpatient ward coverrota. The post holder will work across the Leeds General Infirmary and StJames University Hospital sites; the full-time post would also includetravelling to Hull Royal Infirmary once a month.

You will be working as part of supportive and friendlyclinical teams, alongside experienced as well as more recently qualifiedpsychology colleagues. The post will offer a wide range of clinicalexperiences, including specialty work as an integrated part of the MDT,consultative working and liaison with medical MDTs and colleagues in CYPMHS(Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service). We will endeavour toconsider personal preferences and CPD needs when job planning for this variedrole.

Main duties of the job Toprovide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to children and young peopleand their families in Leeds and across all sites and sectors of care by:

a) Providing highly specialistpsychological assessment and therapy,

b) Offering advice and consultation onpatients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologistcolleagues and to other non-professional carers,

c) Using research skills for audit, policyand service development and leading on research projects within the area servedby the team/service

d) Working autonomously in the executionof these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework ofthe Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.

About us Youwill be joining The Department of Paediatric Psychology (DPP), with over 30clinicians, organised in four sectors of care: Long Term Conditions,Neuropsychology, Surgery & Oncology, and Cardiology & Neonates. Thispost sits in the Long-Term Conditions Team, and you will be supportingchildren, young people and their families to live well with long-term medicalconditions.

TheDepartment is academically ambitious with good links to the Leeds DClinPsychProgramme and Schools of Medicine and Psychology at the University ofLeeds. Scholarly activity is animportant part of what we do, and successful candidates will be encouraged totake academic opportunities that are offer.

Wevalue achieving a balance between work and home life. After an induction period, we can seek tosupport flexible, agile working which includes, for example, homeworking,compressed hours and varied start/finish times.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our processof redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. Assuch, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the rightto close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you doexperience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, pleasebear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact ifyou have any questions.

Job responsibilities PRINCIPALDUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Clinical:

1. To provide specialist psychologicalassessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation andintegration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychologicaland neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct andindirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients,family members and others involved in the patients care.

2. To formulate, develop and implementplans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patientspsychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of thepatients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy,across the full range of care settings.

3. To be responsible for implementing arange of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families andgroups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis,adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon differentexplanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

4. To evaluate and make decisions abouttreatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic modelsand highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processesthat have shaped the individual, family or group.

5. To exercise autonomous professionalresponsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whoseproblems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

6. To provide specialist psychologicaladvice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directlyto patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

7. To contribute directly and indirectlyto a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefitof people under the medical services, across settings and agencies serving thepatient group.

8. To undertake risk assessment and riskmanagement for individual patients and to provide advice to other professionson psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, withparticular reference to deliberate self-harm.

9. To act as care co-ordinator, whereappropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of careplans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health caresetting) including patients, their carers referring agents and others involvedin the network of care.

10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitivemanner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plansof patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of bothuni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Teaching,training, and supervision

1. To receive regular clinicalprofessional supervision from a more senior clinical psychologist and, whereappropriate, other senior professional colleagues

2. To gain additional highly specialistexperience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and the service (asagreed with the Lead Psychologist and Head of Department) up to two sessionsper week (pro rata).

3. To develop skills in the area ofprofessional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to providesupervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.

4. To provide professional and clinicalsupervision of doctoral trainee and graduate/ assistant psychologists.

5. To contribute to the pre- andpost-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology,as appropriate.

6. To provide advice, consultation andtraining to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies andsettings, where appropriate.

Management,recruitment, policy and service development

1. To contribute to the development,evaluation and monitoring of the team, specialty and department operationalpolicies and services, through the deployment of professional skills inresearch, service evaluation and audit.

2. To advise both the Service and the LeadPsychologist on those aspects of the service where psychological and/ororganisational matters need addressing.

3. To manage the workloads of assistantgraduate psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, within theframework of the team/specialty and Department policies and procedures.

4. To be involved, as appropriate, in theshort listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.

Researchand service evaluation

1. To utilise theory, evidence-basedliterature and research to support evidence based practice in individual workand work with other team members.

2. To undertake, as a major component ofthe post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staffundertaking research, and to disseminate appropriate material via presentationand publication.

3. To lead on research projects within thearea served by the team/service.

4. To undertake project management,including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within theservice to help develop service provision.

5. To provide appropriate researchsupervision of doctoral trainees and graduate assistant psychologists.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology,
• two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society.
• Further training in a specialised area of clinical practice through formal post doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) or a combination of specialist short courses together
• with an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice as assessed by a clinical supervisor to be of equivalent level to a postgraduate diploma.
• Completion of formal clinical supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, child development and/or other fields of applied psychology

Skills & behaviours

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