Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Enherts-TR)

Description

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is an exciting new hub role post-split between three sites, Lister Hospital Stevenage, Princess Alexander Hospital Harlow and Watford General, Watford.

Post base is at Lister Hospital, Stevenage.

As part of the Neonatal critical care review, we are looking to employ a Neonatal Clinical Psychologist to support our Services.

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to plan, develop and lead the Neonatal Services across 3 sites which will include the provision of consultation and training to colleagues within the multidisciplinary team, psychological assessment and brief interventions and liaison with partnership services.

The successful candidate will have psychological skills and experience of working with parents and colleagues within a healthcare setting and experience in mental health.

Our level 2 unit at the Lister hospital consists of 28 cots, 10 of which are designed to ITU/HDU.

We are part of the East of England Neonatal network, providing expert care for sick and preterm babies in our area and supporting services in the network.

We also manage a 6 bedded Transitional care area, located on the postnatal ward, where patients can remain with their babies up until they are discharged.

Clinical supervision will be provided by the Paediatric Psychology Service Lead and monthly Supervision by the ODN East of England Lead Clinical Psychologist.

The post holder will liaise closely with the multi-disciplinary team to provide specialist advice and consultation on babies and families psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.

We continue to undergo significant transformation; If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Qualifications / Training

Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling/psychology, including models of psychopathology, psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.

Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
Further training in psychological approaches to trauma, parent-infant relationship work or systemic/family therapy
Pre or post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Conference presentations and publications in the current clinical or related area
Experience delivering highly skilled psychological assessments, interventions, follow-up and data monitoring utilising at least 2 therapeutic models
Experience of teaching and training health professionals in psychological concepts
Experience of working in a neonatal, perinatal or critical care environment
Formal training in supervision
Formal QI training
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies as applied in a clinical health psychology setting.
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Ability to assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.

Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Knowledge and awareness of safeguarding issues
Planning and organising skills for caseload management.

Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies relevant to working with families in an acute healthcare environment.

Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community.

We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve.

In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life.

We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing

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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert.

If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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