Specialist Practitioner Psychologist in London

Main area: Adult Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Major Trauma Centre

Grade: Band 8A

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week

Job ref: 213-DivisionC

Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Site: King's College Hospital, London

Salary: £66,274 - £73,496 per annum including HCA

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 24/04/

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide a highly specialist integrated psychology service to the Major Trauma Centre (MTC) at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust including specialist screening, assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• Contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• Provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in the psychological aspects of the care and treatment of MTC patients.
• Undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• Work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct.
• Agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and decide how they are best achieved.

Clinical and Client Care:

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for patients in the MTC service.
• Provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred patients when required.
• Assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• Work with MTC colleagues to co‑ordinate the services delivered as part of the MTC psychology team.

Contributing to team or service clinical functioning:

• Contribute to the effective working of the MTC psychology team and the MTC service.
• Be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
• Advise other members of the MTC service on specialist psychological care of clients.
• Liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients to develop and review care plans.

Policy and service development:

• Implement policies and procedures in own area of work and propose improvements or beneficial changes.
• Participate in the ongoing implementation of new initiatives across the service.
• Contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services.

Care or management of resources:

• Take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.

Management and supervision:

• Allocate and/or provide clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists.
• Supervise trainee applied psychologists within own area of specialism.

Teaching and Training:

• Undertake occasional teaching and training of pre and post‑qualification psychologists.
• Contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the MTC service.

Record-keeping and Information Governance:

• Ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies.

Research and development:

• Initiate, undertake, support and supervise regular complex service evaluation and audits.

Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development:

• Receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist.
• Ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS and Trust requirements.

General:

• Travel to sites across the Trust and the area it serves as appropriate.
• Respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations.

Person specification:

• Entry‑level qualification in Applied Psychology accepted by the HCPC for registration.
• Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice.
• Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions.
• Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations.