North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Stoke-on-Trent
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Senior Clinical Psychologist B8a/B7 Preceptorship to 8A - Paediatric Epilepsy
Due to an exciting service development, we are seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join a newly established Paediatric Epilepsy Psychology Service.
This is an opportunity to help develop a specialist psychology service embedded within the UHNM. The service supports children, young people and families experiencing psychological difficulties associated with epilepsy.
- Role Overview: You will provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention, alongside consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues. There will be opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement and pathway development.
- Team Environment: You will join a small, supportive and enthusiastic Paediatric Psychology Team with strong links across UHNM, Physical Health Psychology and CAMHS. High-quality care, collaborative working, clinical supervision and professional development are priorities.
- Qualifications and Experience: We welcome applications from psychologists with experience primarily in mental health services, provided they demonstrate a strong interest in working with young people with physical health diagnoses, and an understanding of the impact these can have on mental health.
- Development Pathway: For newly qualified psychologists, a preceptorship pathway to Band 8a will be considered, with appropriate support, supervision and development opportunities.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with Epilepsy based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
- Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
- Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological work and/or management of clients’ psychological distress, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
Trust Values
- Wellness Opportunities: 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. We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
- Sustainability: 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.
- Diversity and Inclusion: 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.
- Step into Health Scheme: The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Carole Martin
- Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: CarolePM.Martin@combined.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01782 675147
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Psychological Intervention
Risk Assessment
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Paediatric Psychology