Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £50,952.00 to £57,349.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £50952.00 - £57349.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, IG11 7LZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9395-24-1102 |
Summary
To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and young people referred for neurodevelopmental assessment and to provide this psychological service to their carers/parents and families. To provide and/or support the provision of evidence based neurodevelopmental and psychological interventions for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and management of children and young people referred to the Neurodevelopmental pathway supporting the CAMHS and Paediatric teams. To undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessment work and parenting support. To carry out professional duties and responsibilities in the following areas: clinical practice, service development, teaching and training, work with other agencies, consultancy and/or applied research and service evaluation. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. To contribute to service development to ensure the best outcomes. To be part of the Clinical Leadership Team contributing to care-pathway and service development to achieve the best outcomes whilst ensuring that all children and young people have an in-date care plans and risk assessment. Support the development of psychological services through the supervision of other qualified psychologists, trainee psychologists, and assistant psychologists. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for children and young people and to offer advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. Providing line Management, Clinical Supervision and appraisal of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists and/or Assistant Psychologists in the Neurodevelopmental Service. To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register. To ensure a safe case load on the neurodevelopmental pathway and that all children and young people on the neurodevelopmental pathway have an allocated clinician to deliver the identified intervention. To be involved in regular caseload reviews to prevent caseload drift and ensuring a smooth flow in and out of the pathways such as smooth transition where adult mental health input is needed or safe discharge back to primary care upon completion of treatment. To provide senior support in the absence of other leads or service manager.