Job Description

LGT has 2 Level 2 Local Neonatal Units providing care to babies delivered form 27 weeks gestation and above 800gms in weight. We also deliver care to babies repatriated from our Tertiary Neonatal Intensive care units.



We are looking for a motivated Band 7 Neonatal psychologist to join our team.



The post holder will work systemically, supporting the neonatal MDT to deliver psychological informed care to babies and their families. They will work to provide targeted and specialist psychological input to infants and families during their neonatal stay and transition home (or to another inpatient setting) as well as support the staff team through consultations and training.



They will be supervised and supported by the Senior Clinical Psychologist across the two Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) and will also form part of a wider network of regional and national psychologists. Regular supervision will be provided.



Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:



Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development



Widening access (anchor institution) and employability



Improving the experience of staff with disability



Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development



Making equalities mainstream



To contribute to the effective working of the multi-disciplinary NICU Team, with promotion of Trauma Informed Care (TIC) and Family Integrated Care (FICare).



To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.



To implement a variety of highly specialist psychological interventions as part of such a treatment plan with individuals, families or carers, keeping formulation and



intervention under constant review, and making adjustments/decisions based on analysis of complex individual/family and therapeutic factors.



With the support of the Senior Psychologist, to exercise professional responsibility for assessment, treatment options and discharge planning, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.



To communicate effectively, empathically and clearly with individuals, families and carers regarding psychological or medical matters which can be highly complicated. To have an empathetic awareness that parents/ carers are frequently in a traumatised state (for example following a difficult birth, complications in their baby's physical health and perinatal losses), which may impede their understanding and retention of information and heighten their sensitivity to staff communication styles.



To communicate effectively and clearly with clinical colleagues regarding psychological assessments and interventions by organizing and putting across the highly complex information involved in a relevant and usable form (written and spoken), as well as in day-to day liaison and consultation.



To undertake risk assessment and risk management as appropriate for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To signpost to other services and colleagues when appropriate.



Undertake other appropriate duties to meet the needs of the Service and individuals.



To maintain the highest standard of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing.



To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to mental health.



To maintain registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professional Council.