12 Oct
Evelina London
London
Main area
Evelina
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 0.2 sessions per week
Job ref
196-SMT1634
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Evelina London
Town
London
Salary
£82,462 - £93,773 Per annum inc HCA (Pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/10/2024 23:59
Interview date
22/10/2024
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs,
local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres.
In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care.
The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The Evelina Psychological Professions Lead (EPPL) is accountable for the performance and quality of care provided to children and their families looked after within the Evelina psychological professions service.
The Evelina Psychological Professions Lead, in conjunction with the Chief Children’s AHP should work to ensure financial sustainability and delivery of operational targets for psychological professions service. This requires active participation in the business planning of finance and activity for the service.
The Evelina Psychological Professions Lead will have direct lines of communication and collaboration with the other consultant psychologists working in Evelina, providing a unified voice for the professional cluster and clinical group.
The Evelina Psychological Professions Lead (EPPL) will work closely with the Trust Head of Psychological Services (HoPS) informing, consulting and advising the HoPS in regards to psychological services, strategy and professional matters within the Clinical Group.
The Evelina Psychological Professions Lead will be a visible representative for Psychological Professions for the clinical group and will attend other forums and networks within the clinical group, trust wide and nationally as directed by the Trust Head of Psychological Services and,
Chief Children’s AHP.
Tasks may be delegated to other members of the team but ultimately the Evelina Clinical Lead for Psychology must have a broad oversight of the service.
Main duties of the job
Lead the umbrella of Psychological Professions Services under Evelina London.
Jointly accountable (with relevant service manager & clinical team) for quality and operational delivery of service.
Responsible for working in conjunction with relevant Service Managers, lead psychologists within their respective services & Chief Children’s AHP and Trust Head of Psychological Services in development and delivery of annual business plans relating to psychological services covering finance and activity for the service.
Lead on clinical standards, quality (including caring),
safety and responsiveness within Evelina Psychological Services with the support from the consultant psychologists and other senior staff in their respective psychology teams.
Working for our organisation
Evelina London Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With almost 4,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy’s and St Thomas’. Every year, the number of women,
children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and in the community, continues to grow. We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. Evelina London is here for children, young people and women from London to South East England, and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world. As the only NHS Trust in London with women’s and specialist children’s services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children.
Find out more www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk. Watch our short film to see inside our children’s hospital
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role involves leading the psychological professions within Evelina London, in conjunction with the Trust Head of psychological professions and The Chief Children's AHPP.
The post holder will have responsibility for:
operational leadership, including financial management
clinical leadership and quality and safety
strategic leadership
The post holder will work as a clinical consultant psychologist within the Evelina.
Please see attached for the detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Miranda Loveday Job title Chief Children's AHPP Email address ***************@gstt.nhs.uk
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