This is a permanent post within the Psychological and Mental Health Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The post holder will have a specific focus on providing input into our Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Units and the Cardiac/ Respiratory teams. The post sits within the Long Term Health conditions cluster, which covers cancer, cardiology, respiratory, HIV, infectious diseases and intensive care services.
The post holder will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical service to inpatients and outpatients and their families within the above services. This will include evidence-based psychological and developmental assessment, complex formulation, and individual and family-based interventions. The role also requires a high level of multidisciplinary working supporting parents when their child is acutely and often severely unwell. The post holder will also be expected to provide recommendations and extensive consultation to professional colleagues and other agencies involved in the child’s care, including facilitating staff support and reflective practice.
There are opportunities for supervision of both psychology and non-psychology staff as agreed with the consultant psychologists for their group.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the flexible delivery of psychology services across the Trust, in response to new developments and organisational changes.
The post holder will predominantly provide a specialist psychology service to the NICU, PICU and cardiac/respiratory teams. They will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical psychology service to patients and families within the above services, across all sectors of care, including specialist assessment, complex formulation and evidence-based interventions. The post holder has a high proportion of direct clinical work, meeting with children and their parents both as inpatients, when the child or young person is acutely and often severely unwell, through to more long-term outpatient work (the outpatient work covers a range of clinical areas). They have responsibility for covering the ICU psychosocial meetings which ensures that the psychological needs of all children are discussed within the multi-disciplinary team (MDT). This fits with the service priorities and recommended standards to ensure that we meet the psychological needs of all babies and children.
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a fair, open and consistent process that is free from bias and discrimination.
We are working towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. This means creating a workplace where every colleague feels seen, heard and valued, and where racism in any form has no place. Our anti-racism commitment is backed by action through our Anti-Racism Statement and action plan, developed in collaboration with our REACH staff network.
We actively challenge discrimination, dismantle barriers and embed equity across all aspects of our workforce, including recruitment, progression and development. All applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health condition or employment history.
We particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+ community members. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
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Together, we are building a culture where inclusion is not optional - it is essential.
