Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 30 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,387.00 to £80,465.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £70387.00 - £80465.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, W10 6UX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9333-25-0706 |
Summary
Role and responsibilities Focus is on assessment, not treatment. Main focus would be on providing specialist assessments of clients to the team where there is a need for a psychological assessment. The psychologists role is likely to involve undertaking a component of a wider family assessment to which they would also be making a contribution. This is likely to be in relation to the psychological and emotional needs of children. Impact of the parental issues/needs on the child/children. A developmental perspective of the needs of the child/children- now and in the future. KEY RESULT AREAS Clinical: To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from avariety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-reportmeasures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structuredinterviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options 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 exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision ofadvice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging care plan reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team. Teaching, training and supervision To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies. To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to recently qualified clinical and/or counselling psychologists attached to the team. To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology as appropriate. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. Management, recruitment, policy and service development To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive andaccessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to a team, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of patients. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees and qualified clinical psychologists. To take responsibility for the work of community psychologists within the tier 3 CAMHS, managing and supervising their work. To take specific responsibility for developing and implementing procedures of the multi-disciplinary service including referrals team, triage assessments, clinical audit, project evaluation and clinical outcomes. To take responsibility for projects to develop existing and new services being delivered out in the community (eg. Education, Primary Care). Information technology To use computers and computer software to prepare reports and documents relevant to working duties. When required to enter data into Trust patient administration systems and to work using databases in the course of clinical duties. Research and service evaluation 1.To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring anddevelopment of the teams operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care. 2. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. 3. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research. 4. To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families. General 1.To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes. 2. To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines. 3. To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures. 4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.