Consultant Clinical Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity to join Psychological and Mental Health Services (PAMHS) at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

PAMHS is a large, multidisciplinary service providing both paediatric psychology services to GOSH and specialist CAMHS services nationally.

The successful postholder will join the team on a permanent contract and will lead the Pain Services stream (0.6 sessions) – approximately 5 WTE staff members. The post will involve providing input into the existing Chronic Pain Service, overseeing a recently established interdisciplinary pain management programme, and acting as a consultant-level member of the overall Pain Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The postholder will work closely with other Consultant Clinical Psychologist leads across PAMHS to lead the effective provision of services to children with medical conditions.

Main duties of the job

This post combines Consultant Clinical with specialist managerial lead responsibilities. The clinical responsibilities and sessions will be agreed with the postholder on appointment, but are envisaged to be about 40% of the role. Lead responsibilities are as follows:

1. To provide leadership of the Pain Services stream, including line management, both managerially and clinically.
2. To work with the other Trust Psychology Leads and the Head of Psychological Services on professional, clinical and managerial issues in psychology to ensure effective functioning of the clinical psychology provision across the Trust.
3. The post holder will be expected to have specialist clinical expertise including knowledge and experience of clinical psychology in a paediatric setting, pain management, and strategic leadership. Experience of managing clinical psychology provision in a paediatric setting is an advantage.

Essential Qualifications

1. Minimum 2:1 honours degree in Psychology.
2. Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or educational psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).
3. Registered with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.
4. Eligibility for Chartered status and membership of Division of Clinical Psychology.

Desirable Qualifications

1. Post graduate education or training in the field of Neurodevelopmental Psychology or Paediatric Neuropsychology.

Essential Experience/Knowledge

1. Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist (or equivalent qualification).
2. The ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
3. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.

Desirable Experience

1. Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in a Paediatric Setting.

Essential Skills/Abilities

1. Must be able to provide effective clinical leadership.
2. Experience of supervision and management of qualified clinical psychologists.
3. Must be able to plan for delivery of a specialist service, both short/medium and long term.
4. Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
5. Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in the context of significant barriers to acceptance, hostility, antagonism or highly emotive atmosphere.

Employer details
Employer name
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH

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