- To provide a highly specialised Psychology service to burns patients within the Trust.
- To devise and provide individualised assessment and treatment of inpatients and outpatients with multi-faceted problems.
- To provide specialist advice and consultation on psychological problems, needs and care of burns patients.
- To provide specialist support and supervision to staff involved in the care of burns patients.
- To meet the health needs, participate in, advise, and make proposals regarding service development within Clinical Health Psychology especially about Hospital patients.
- To apply Research and Development skills to perform audit within the service; audit own clinical practice; and the supervision of undergraduate students, graduate assistants, and doctoral trainees.
- To supervise clinical work of newly qualified staff, trainees, and graduate psychology assistants directly to administer psychological therapy and ensuring systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision these staff.
- Key Result Areas
- This includes both face-to-face specialist consultations and indirect work with health care staff and carers, always exercising independent clinical responsibility for all clinical interventions whilst using regular reflective practice and clinical guidance from other appropriate clinicians in accordance with good practice guidelines.
- To exercise full independent clinical responsibility and autonomy for the treatment and discharge of people with burns injuries whose problems are managed as a psychologically based standard care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation, and interventions followed by evaluation and communication with the referral agent and others involved with the care on regular basis
- To be responsible for implementing a range of complex psychological interventions for people with burns injuries, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations over time as appropriate, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. Person Specification
- Good analytical and judgemental skills.
- Proven knowledge and experience of giving and receiving clinical supervision.
- Demonstrable skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Proven advanced knowledge and competency in comparing frameworks and approaches used in clinical, counselling, health, and applied psychology.
- Proven knowledge and understanding of relevant government policies, guidelines, literature and guidance, and its implications for clinical practice about patients.
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or an equivalent counselling psychology qualification as accredited by the BPS; including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, life span developmental psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level.
- Post-doctorate Clinical Health Psychology specialism training.
- Capable of contributing to the development and implementation of policies and service development.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to act appropriately within professional guidelines and able to initiate action in line with broad policies.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
- Personal experience of receiving formal personal growth facilitation or other forms of psychological therapy
Burns Clinical Psychologist - Plymouth, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Description
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a psychologist to help develop and provide a highly specialist and high-quality Clinical Psychology service for adults and paediatric burns patients of the Burns Facility in University Hospital Plymouth. .
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as 'Priority' and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
Main duties of the job
To provide a highly specialist and high-quality Clinical Psychology service for adults and paediatric burns patients of the Burns Facility in University Hospital Plymouth. To be responsible for the assessment and provision of psychological therapy, advice or consultation to patients and professionals within the Trust.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to function as a highly specialist resource to the Trust. To provide teaching and training where required, supervision to other professionals and to support the development of increased psychological provision within the hospital.
To provide a highly specialist psychological service to patients who have suffered burns injuries including those repatriated from regional Burns Units.
In addition, to provide consultation and supervision to a wide range of staff, as required, including supervision of therapeutic work to Counsellors and Psychologists in training. You will work autonomously and support the development of initiatives that support increased psychological provision.
About us
We are a people business - where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.
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Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Clinical
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Aptitude & Abiltities
Essential
Desirable