Clinical Psychologist | and North West NHS Foundation Trust

This job represents an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified clinical psychologist to develop their skills and experience in the field of paediatrics. You will be part of a growing paediatric psychology service based at Northwick Park Hospital with a responsibility for supporting children and young people (CYP) with diabetes across Ealing hospital and Northwick Park hospital. Alongside working with CYP with diabetes, there will be the possibility of supporting CYP with other diagnoses such as epilepsy.

Experience of working in paediatric psychology is desirable, but not essential as you will be supervised by an experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist and part of a developing paediatric psychology team.

You will have an interest in applying a range of psychological models in a flexible way, working directly with children, young people and their families. There will be indirect work via liaison and consultation with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies. Part of your role may include staff support, providing debriefs and regular reflective practice to teams, as well as MDT teaching.

You will be part of the wider CNWL Paediatric Psychology Service. This service meets monthly for business, journal and research presentations, as well as clinical and skill sharing. There is also a CNWL paediatric diabetes specialist interest group that meets quarterly.

To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to CYP being seen within the Paediatric Service at Northwick Park Hospital and Ealing Hospital across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.

The majority of the post would be working as an integrated member of the well established paediatric multidisciplinary diabetes services at Ealing and Northwick Park hospitals. The remaining part of the role would be to work with CYP being seen within the paediatric epilepsy service. Work would include the provision of inpatient and outpatient support.

The Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) is responsible for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental health Services (CAMHS) to the populations of Brent, Hillingdon, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster and Milton Keynes, as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to other Trusts and Agencies, and to a wider regional catchment area. The CNWL Paediatric and Child Development Psychology Service provides services to 7 acute hospitals across the Central and North West London area.

The two hospitals where the post holder would work are Northwick park Hospital and Ealing hospital. Both are sites of the London Northwest University NHS Trust and are teaching hospitals offering secondary and tertiary level medical services to ethnically and socio-economically diverse populations. Clinical Psychology services are provided to the Paediatric Diabetes, Oncology, Epilepsy; and Neonatology teams.

• Newly qualified clinical psychologist status.
• Experience of working in paediatric psychology desirable but not essential.
• Ability to apply psychological models in a flexible way and work with children, young people, MDTs and external agencies.

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and…