Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist in Renal Medicine

Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist in Renal Medicine
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Location
London
Salary
£66,718 to £76,271 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Closing date
29 May 2024
Would you like to join our integrated and highly valued renal health and counselling psychology team? Our current psychologist is emigrating and we're looking for someone to support the delivery of our renal psychology service in a manner consistent with the World Class Care values and objectives of our Royal Free Hospital Trust.You will provide clinical health psychology input to inpatients and outpatients with kidney disease, providing highly specialist psychological kidney transplant and donor assessments, formulation and treatments, complex risk assessments and consultation on patients' psychological care. You will deliver this to non-psychologist colleagues whilst working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.This post is cross-site and the post-holder will be based at the Royal Free Hospital but is required to travel to Edgware and Barnet dialysis units.Main duties of the jobYou will clinically support new and ongoing renal department initiatives and wider renal multi-disciplinary teams to deliver integrated care, including consultation and training concerning psychological aspects of patient care and management along patient pathways, and ensure that psychological aspects are addressed in audit, research and service development.You will offer psychoeducation interventions to support the prevention and reduction in kidney disease progression in addition to psychologically-informed teaching and training to renal nursing, medical and other multidisciplinary teams and contribute to the wider activities and supervision responsibilities of the trust's Psychological Therapists, Neuropsychologists and Counsellors' (PTNC) group.You will demonstrate and deliver trauma informed practice and support renal nursing and medical staff to provide excellent patient care through reflective practice and psychological teaching to promote the identification and recognition of psychological distress in patients with kidney disease.About usAs a clinician you will be embedded within your clinical speciality and also belong to a group of over 40 psychological therapies, neuropsychology and counselling (PTNC) staff who work within a variety of medical specialities. These include Cancer & Palliative Care, Cardiology, Dermatology, Diabetes, Elderly Care, Hepatology, Haemophilia, HIV, ICU, Immunology and Rare Disease, Nephrology, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Respiratory, and Women's Health.Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesTo provide expertise in a highly specialist clinical area in accordance with a job plan that contributes to the assessment and treatment of patients referred to the RHCP service from the renal dialysis, transplantation, low clearance (advanced kidney care), renal inpatient, and other renal sub-specialties.To provide highly specialist, culturally sensitive biopsychosocial assessments, clinical health formulation and routine transplant assessments of patients with renal disease, co-morbid physical health conditions and associated psychological distress.To provide psychological reports, including relevant clinical health psychology formulation, opinion and evidence-based interventions in order to inform referrers, wider MDT members and patients, where appropriate.Person SpecificationRoyal Free World Class ValuesEssentialDemonstrable ability to meet the Trust ValuesEducation & professional QualificationsEssentialPost-graduate doctoral level training in Health, Counselling / Clinical psychology (or the equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the British Psychological Society Statement of EquivalenceHCPC registration and eligibility for Chartered Practitioner Health, Counselling or Clinical Psychologist statusPost-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of psychological practiceRecognised training / qualification in delivering clinical supervisionExperienceEssentialExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients outpatient and inpatient settingsExperience as a Practitioner Health or Counselling / Clinical psychologist working in a specialist acute medical field with patients with complex medical and psychosocial presentationsEvidence of post-qualification supervised clinical experience in therapeutic interventions and management of patients/clients in acute hospital settingsSignificant post-qualification experience of working with and contributing to interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environmentsExperience of implementing theory driven behaviour-change interventions with patients in a medical settingExperience of delivering one-to-one clinical supervision to psychologists / psychological therapistsExperience of teaching, training other qualified Health, Counselling or Clinical Psychologists and those from other professional disciplinesPost-qualification experience of management and leadershipExperience in the effective application of psychological interventions with culturally diverse patient groupsDesirableExperience of applying psychological principles in the delivery of reflective practice groups (or similar) to staff groups to support team functionPost-qualification experience in designing and delivering research / quality or service improvement projects in medical settingsExperience of contributing to local and / or national programmes of work external to your own organizationEmployer detailsEmployer nameRoyal Free London NHS Foundation TrustAddressRoyal Free HospitalPond StreetLondonNW3 2QGAny attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.391-RFL-6287680 Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.
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