Clinical Psychologist in Cleft and Paediatric Plastic Surgery

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff.

Qualified Clinical Psychologists or Trainee Clinical Psychologists due to qualify this year with an interest in clinical health psychology are invited to apply for this lifespan cleft lip and palate (0.6 WTE) and paediatric plastic surgery (0.3 WTE) role. You may have experience of working with physical health problems with either children/families or adults, or experience of working in child and adolescent or adult mental health services with a keen interest and desire to apply that knowledge to work in an acute trust. You will be joining a growing clinical psychology lifespan service to children, young people and adults under the care of the Trent Regional Cleft Lip and Palate Service, in a highly welcoming multidisciplinary team of plastic surgeons, nurses, speech and language therapists, orthodontists and dentists. You will also provide psychological care to children and families under plastic surgery services within the Trust. You will be part of a welcoming and growing Clinical Psychology department, which incorporates specialisms in Paediatric Psychology, Adult Medical Psychology and Child and Adult Neuropsychology.

Main duties of the job:

• Working closely with the multidisciplinary Cleft Lip and Palate team to offer psychological care to those born with a cleft lip and/or palate across the lifespan, and children and families under the care of plastic surgeons.
• Working with children and young people and their families, as well as adults, through consultation with staff, direct work and attending multidisciplinary clinics.
• Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy/input, offering advice and consultation to the MDT, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
• Providing clinical and professional supervision to trainees undertaking doctoral training, where appropriate.
• Undertaking service development, where required.
• Delivering informal and formal teaching and training as required to the MDT.

Person specification:

• Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours: Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “We are here for you” behavioural standards.
• Training & Qualifications: Completed (or due to complete) post-graduate doctoral level (or equivalent) training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS. Current HCPC registration (or eligibility to qualify for registration post-training). Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC. Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Training in the supervision of other psychological professionals.
• Experience: Experience of working with children or adults with physical health problems, or with children or adults with mental health problems. Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment. Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. Experience of carrying out research. Working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist in paediatric psychology or adult clinical health psychology.
• Communication and Relationship Skills: Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies or assessment methodologies. Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
• Analytical and Judgement Skills: Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including both quantitative and qualitative methods. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for people with long-term health conditions. Knowledge of complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology. Experience using qualitative research methods.
• Planning and Organisation Skills: Highly organised and able to prioritise workload effectively.
• Physical skills: Ability to sit for prolonged time periods during psychological assessments/therapy sessions. Ability to travel between the hospital campuses within the day.
• Other requirements specific to the role: Ability to work on Wednesdays.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career! We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.