Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist GSTT Infected Blood

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to support the implementation and delivery of the new GSTT Infected Blood Psychological Service (IBPS), based within our well established Haemophilia Centre.  This is one of several new services across England, commissioned by NHS England (funded for 4 years initially).

The GSTT IBPS comprises of 1.0 wte 8b Lead Practitioner Psychologist, 0.7 wte 8a Practitioner Psychologist and 0.8 wte Specialist Social Worker. The service provides multidisciplinary care for people and families infected/ affected by contaminated blood products by: a) conducting outreach and psychosocial assessments led by a social worker; and b) providing psychological therapies.  It collaborates closely with the GSTT Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), while maintaining a distinct identity as an IBPS.

This predominantly clinical role will mostly involve working therapeutically with people who have been infected or affected by contaminated blood products, within a service design which has flexibility around length and frequency of sessions- in line with the needs of the individual. We encourage applicants who feel confident, excited and committed to working therapeutically over time with people who have experienced longstanding and ongoing traumatic experiences and injustice in the context of accessing healthcare.

We welcome applications from HCPC registered Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologists with post-qualification experience relevant to this context.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job are:

• Support the implementation of the GSTT Infected Blood Psychological Service.
• Deputise for the Lead Psychologist as necessary.
• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, referrals and treatment to the service users as part of an MDT.
• Independently report and manage individual caseload and to support the GSTT Haemophilia Centre MDT based on workload capacity.
• Support the collection and analysis of data and to utilise research skills for audit, research and service development purposes.
• Support outreach and engagement efforts with the service beneficiaries, including considering local peer support pathways
• Support the Lead Psychologist in the supervision, management and overseeing of the contributions of other professionals (e.g. patient navigator/social worker, admin team) within their competencies as a psychologist and in conjunction with their professional leads and the Consultant Psychologist as required.
• Engage with the service’s supervision, training and education activities and to contribute to development and provision of training and education programmes delivered to other healthcare professionals.
• Foster close collaborations with other regional providers of IBPS and with relevant third sector organisations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post