North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Principal Clinical Psychologist
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Neonatal Principal Clinical Psychologist
Band 8b
0.6 WTE
Permanent
Are you a Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about delivering compassionate support to families accessing the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit? Do you want to make the most of an exciting opportunity to join an innovative multidisciplinary team? Do you want to work creatively to develop clinical psychology as part of the NICU MDT? Are you ready to step into a clinical leadership post?
This is a varied Clinical Psychology role; providing assessment, formulation and intervention to families accessing the NICU; working creatively to support staff teams providing care in a challenging but rewarding setting; with support, developing psychology as part of the NICU MDT. You will also represent the LMNS in the local neonatal workstream and provide clinical supervision to other clinical psychologists working locally.
The post holder would join our friendly multi-disciplinary team based on the NICU, working closely with the perinatal and maternal mental health psychology team (within community perinatal mental health services). Supervision will be provided by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and the postholder will be supported by the Neonatal Network Lead.
We offer excellent clinical supervision and support. There are a wide range of CPD opportunities available. The post is hospital based and will involve a combination of face to face and remote working.
The Neonatal Unit at Royal Stoke University Hospital, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, is a busy and dynamic Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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- Cots: 26 in total: 10 x intensive care cots, 6 x High Dependency cots and 14 x Special Care cots
- Transitional Care Unit: 10 bedded
- Neonatal Community Outreach Team: Support discharge from the NICU and transition to home
There are approximately 6500-6800 births per year at Royal Stoke University Hospital, at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.
The Neonatal Unit at UHNM supports approximately 600 admissions per year.
We provide care at all levels, to babies and their families, from within Stoke and Stafford area, regionally within the West Midlands Neonatal Network, and beyond.
- Gestation: We care for babies born at 22 weeks gestation to >42 weeks gestation
- Admission: Via the Delivery Suite, directly linked to the NICU, and can be via planned or emergency delivery
The NICU Team are trained to attend deliveries, to stabilise and transfer the preterm/term infant to the NICU, and then continue to deliver individualised and high quality care, for the duration of the baby’s neonatal journey.
We also work to support deliveries in the Interventional Radiography Department and work closely with our colleagues in the Fetal Medicine and Antenatal Screening Departments.
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
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We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk)). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Rebecca Hutton
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: rebecca.hutton@combined.nhs.uk
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