Principle Clinical Psychologist Critical CareBand 8b - Bournemouth, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Dorset

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Job overview

The Critical Care Unit at UHD NHS Trust aims to provide the highest quality and best outcomes for patients being treated for and recovering from critical illness .

As part of our continual development, we are expanding our multi-professional team to include Clinical Psychology in line with national guidelines (GPICS) and professional body recommendations.

This will enable us to continue providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive care for acute treatment and rehabilitation from all aspects of critical illness.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop a new service working in a new purpose-built unit due to open in March .

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary intensive care team with the aim of setting up, developing, and providing the most up-to-date and evidence-based critical care service to meet the psychological and emotional needs of patients, as well as those of the staff who work in this challenging environment.

Specialist knowledge, experience and skills and personal qualities to fulfil the post:

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS or equivalence; HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist; post-doctoral training in a specialised area of practice relevant to rehabilitation of patients following critical illness; formal training or qualification in leadership and provision of clinical supervision; and excellent team working and development skills.

Base Location Poole and Bournemouth Main duties of the job To work with the multi-professional critical care and rehabilitation teams to develop and implement an evidentially underpinned and clinically effective Psychology pathway and service to meet the needs of patients, relatives, and staff.

To include:

identifying patients at risk of or affected by psychological morbidity such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress associated with or exacerbated by their critical illness or ICU admission; conducting comprehensive psychological assessments of highly complex patients in hospital and at follow-up, incorporating psychological and neurobiological data as appropriate; providing detailed formulations and advice to patients, relatives and the wider multi-professional team; planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions to maximise outcomes; providing ongoing education and training for clinicians, nurses and allied health professionals and act as a resource for other professionals; directly supporting staff and colleagues in dealing with the stressors and psychological consequences of working in a challenging healthcare environment; linking as appropriate with other agencies and/or external services related to patient's ongoing care post discharge; and designing and implementing systems and processes to continuously measure impact and outcomes of the service.

Working for our organisation Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term.

Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

There is a planned move for this service anticipated during , when this role and base of work will relocate to Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Upon relocation of the role/service, excess mileage allowance / reimbursement will not apply, and any travel between the postholder's home and work base will be classified as a commute.

Any other changes unrelated to this, will be handled in line with Trust/National terms and conditions. Initially you will work across our two sites with a view to single site working in .


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TBC Detailed job description and main responsibilities To work together with the Critical Care follow up and rehabilitation team to establish a CriticalCare specific psychology service for patients, relatives and staff.· To undertake psychological assessment, and provide highly specialised, evidence basedpsychological interventions in individual, family or group format· To work alongside the critical care follow up nurses and consultants and to attend follow upclinics; to help identify patients and relatives that may benefit from psychological interventionsand to provide these in separate psychology clinics· To identify and treat inpatients in critical care that may benefit from acute psychologicalinterventions, e.g.

anxiety, panic attacks, depression, intermittent hallucinations· To work closely with the critical care multi-disciplinary team, give advice and help guidepatients' recovery and rehabilitation· To work closely with and support all members of staff in the Critical Care Units; this includesholding debrief sessions after potentially traumatic events, wellbeing sessions and providingpsychological interventions for groups and individuals· To provide teaching to non-psychologist members of staff· To help create individual de-escalation plans for inpatients whose behaviour is challenging forstaff· To liaise with other critical care psychologists locally, regionally and nationally for professionaldevelopment and to help develop the service further· To provide supervision for less experienced psychologists where appropriate, includingundergraduate and postgraduate psychology students during their placement, assistant and trainee psychologists, and qualified psychologist · To collect data and organise feedback to evaluate and audit the psychology service · To contribute to research Person specification Technical Skills and Competencies Essential criteria Ability to identify and pioritise appropriate areas for service improvement and to design, plan and delver these improvements Desirable criteria Ability to manage the delivery of a service or part of a service, balancingthe priorities of quality and resource capacity Qualifications Essential criteria Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or applied psychology ( or its equivalent for those trained prior to ) Desirable criteria Pre or post-qualification training and qualifications in leadership, teaching, clinical supervision, and/or research.

Experience Essential criteria Application of Specialist psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service Desirable criteria Experience of leading or participating in regular reflective practice.