Lead Children and Young People's Psychologist inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED 23 AUG 2024

We are inviting enthusiastic and passionate individuals to apply for this exciting opportunity, to understand the psychology provision across several paediatric services in the West Midlands.


Role


This role is part of the West Midlands Children's Network and will cover the paediatric Networks within this group which is a collection of Women’s & Children’s Clinical Networks for the West Midlands, hosted by Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHS FT. The Networks cover:

• Paediatric Critical Care
• Paediatric Palliative Care
• Surgery in Children
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Children & Young People and Teenage & Young Adult Cancer
• Perinatal
  
  

The role of clinical networks are to connect providers of these services across the West Midlands to ensure:

• care is consistent;
• equity of access;
• high standards of quality of care;
• patient and family experiences and outcomes are constantly improving.
  
  

The post holder will work to identify the gaps in psychology provision across our service remits in acute paediatric services. They will look to understand the impact of psychology provision, either its presence or absence, on our patients and their families. And most importantly, they will take the lead on designing solutions to increase psychology provision and improve current pathways.

The postholder will be responsible for undertaking project work to understand the current psychology provision within acute paediatric settings, completing a gap analysis against relevant service specifications. It will also be important to collect qualitative data regarding the impact of psychology provision for children, young people, their families and staff. Based on these results, the postholder will support development of recommendations to improve psychology provision across the region, and where possible, support their implementation.

Working with stakeholders across a variety of systems, providers, professions and external organisations will be key to the success of this role, including engaging with children, young people and their families.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alice Nason Job title: Associate Director, WMCN Email address: Telephone number: