Consultant Practitioner Psychologist, Major Trauma Psychology Lead

Consultant Practitioner Psychologist, Major Trauma Psychology Lead

Barts Health NHS Trust aims to be renowned for excellence, innovation and providing safe, compassionate care. Exemplary, since 2023, the Royal London Hospital (RLH) Major Trauma Centre (MTC) has formally provided integrated physical and psychological care, within the Pan-London Major Trauma Psychology Network. This is supported by NHS London's Violence Reduction Programme, so is deservedly high profile.

The post holder will have a pivotal role in leading on this transformation agenda in the delivery of a comprehensive, integrated model of care for all trauma patients (children and adults) ensuring equity of integrated, high quality physical and psychological trauma care in London's MTCs. This approach can be stepped up when a major incident occurs.

The focus will be on leading the implementation and maintenance of this model within Barts Health NHS Trust, putting patients at the heart of this transformation, and also collaborating across the London MTC system to establish system-wide governance and communication. Evidence gathering, evaluation and broadcasting are key, to enable discussion with local and national commissioners around implementation potential.

As well as keeping pace with providing inpatient RLH MTC psychological care, the service follows up out-patients and also provides consultation, in multiple forms, to the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues linked with the RLH MTC, whilst promoting staff wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

1. To lead and manage the development, delivery and systematic evaluation of the Major Trauma Psychological Integrated Model of Care at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, in collaboration with the pan-London model leadership.
2. To provide clinical and operational leadership, line management, and professional line management to Practitioner Psychologists in the RLH MTC, as well as others such Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists.
3. To lead in the provision of consultation, training and clinical supervision to colleagues involved in the Major Trauma Psychological Integrated Model of Care at the Royal London Hospital, including internal and external agencies and non-clinical colleagues.
4. To lead on the initial local psychological response to major incidents that provide proactive support to patients, bereaved, staff and contribute to the development of longer-term plans.
5. To evaluate the model in order that a thorough feasibility assessment of sustainability can be achieved and to share these findings.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Experience

• Assessed and established amounts of experience of working as a qualified Practitioner Psychologist in a clinical setting.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including inpatient, outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care.
• Experience of working in a physical health hospital setting providing health psychology input.
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologist.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, both as care co-ordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of representing psychology in multi-professional settings.
• Experience of formal teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision of psychologists.
• Experience of teaching and training of other professionals.

Skills

• Expert skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
• Ability to support and co-ordinate the work of psychology colleagues and psychology service staff, including administrative staff.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of professional issues and developments with the profession.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of applied psychology.
• Knowledge of NHS strategies and developments.

Qualifications

• Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by BPS.
• Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.