Senior Clinical Psychologist

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Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

Are you passionate about autism and neurodiversity in children?

A wonderful opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our highly valued Early Years autism assessment and general paediatrics psychology teams in Child Health.

The post is a 0.6 wte, part-time for 3 days per week. We are a small and friendly psychology team. The role is mostly focused on ASD assessment with some time supporting children with medical conditions.

We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible individual who is interested in developing effective and innovative, services with good quality outcomes for children, young people and their families living with chronic health conditions, to improve their quality of life and well-being.

Main duties of the job

We work with children and young people referred with a broad range of physical health conditions including; cystic fibrosis, respiratory, cardiac, epilepsy, oncology, allergies, chronic pain, and persistent physical symptom presentations.

Our ASD team is made up of; a senior clinical psychologist (this post), a speech and language therapist, a child development practitioner, Consultant Community Paediatricians and Associate Specialists in Paediatrics.

Psychologists working within the child health team are valued for their expertise in offering psychological assessments, integrative psychological formulations, working with complex cases and offering consultation and supervision.

Completing autism spectrum disorder assessments for early years children as part of a multi-disciplinary autism team in Child Health. Using standardised assessment tools, including the ADOS.

Offering assessments and psychological interventions to children young people and their families where the child has a medical or physical health condition and experiencing psychological distress as a result of physical ill health.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctorate (or equivalent) in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Further training

Essential criteria

• ADOS trained

Desirable criteria

• ADI or 3di trained

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience completing autism assessments with young children

Experience

Essential criteria

• Leadership experience

Desirable criteria

• Service development

Experience of working therapeutically with children with medical diagnoses

Essential criteria

• 2 years experience

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 624.3KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 640.3KB)
• Team Structure (PDF, 544.5KB)
• HHFT Employee Rewards & Benefits (PDF, 723.8KB)
• Tackling Climate Change at Hampshire Hospitals (PDF, 4.9MB)