Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Job Summary

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:

• To provide leadership of the Pain Services stream, including line management, both managerially and clinically.
• 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.
• 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.

About Us

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed. We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

Job Responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Education, Training and Qualifications

Essential

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

Desirable

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

Experience/Knowledge

Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist (or equivalent qualification).
• 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.
• 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 of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in a Paediatric Setting.

Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Must be able to provide effective clinical leadership.
• Experience of supervision and management of qualified clinical psychologists.
• Must be able to plan for delivery of a specialist service, both short/medium and long term.
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• 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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

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