An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Clinical Psychologist to join our expanding team providing psychological care for people with sickle cell disorder and other rare anaemias. The psychology service is a valued part of a multi-disciplinary team providing hospital-based care for people with sickle cell disorder and other anaemias, including haematology doctors, nurses, and other allied health professionals. We are looking to expand the range of psychological care we are able to provide, and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to establish new aspects of the role, including a focus on adolescent transition to adult care, and supporting service users in the community, through a community-based MDT incorporating psychology, social work, nursing, social prescribing, pharmacy and physiotherapy.

The post holder will be based primarily at Hammersmith Hospital, a regional hub providing specialist services for adults with disorders affecting red blood cells. There will be occasional need to travel to St. Mary’s Hospital, where the main paediatric sickle cell service is located, to assist with adolescents transitioning to adult care, as well as travel as needed for community outreach. The work will involve meeting with service users individually and/or in groups, providing specialist psychological assessment, support and intervention/therapy. Much of the work with service users will involve helping people manage symptoms or complications related to their condition (e.g., pain), and addressing social, emotional and occupational challenges of having a long-term health condition (e.g., relationships, trauma, education and employment). Service users crucially need to maintain an adequate relationship with healthcare providers, and the psychologist serves as adviser, educator and advocate, working with both service users and staff. The community MDT is designed to reach service users who do not necessarily attend hospital frequently, but may be struggling in the community or lost to follow-up.

The post holder will be employed by CNWL as a member of the clinical health psychology department, a team of clinical and counselling psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainees, providing psychological intervention and support to various health services within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT). The post holder will benefit from weekly didactic discussions, line management and clinical supervision. The post holder will separately be embedded within a multi-disciplinary team in the community, providing care and a link to hospital-based medicine.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide a qualified clinical health psychology service to service users of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust receiving care for sickle cell disorder, including those transitioning from adolescent care, comprising highly specialist psychological assessment, treatment, planning, implementation, and monitoring of outcomes.To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a specialist in psychological services for sickle cell disorder.To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

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