Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | Clapham Bedford, MK416AT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9363-25-0632 |
Summary
You will join a multidisciplinary team which consists of Nurses from learning disabilities, mental health and adult general nursing, A clinical lead consultant psychologist, a clinical psychologist, three assistant psychologists, two support workers, an occupational therapist and two admin/ clerical staff. You will contribute to psychology provision through supervision, MDT meetings as well as undertaking assessments and formulation. There is significant oppportunity for specialist expertise development under the supervision of the clinical lead. We would enable opportunities to be involved or lead quality improvement and research. We invite all staff to proactively contribute to the aspiration of the service: to enable thriving, not just surviving. We are a reflective team and encourage all staff to demonstrate a reflexive understanding of internalised bias and cultural injustice to ensure that our service evolves to enable access for a heterogeneous population. You will have some experience of working with people with trauma and other mental health issues, it is likely that even if you have never worked within an autism service, you will have worked with autistic people. We are seeking a creative, dedicated person who is interested in autism assessment, using neuroaffirming psychoeducation to facilitate autonomy for people receiving a diagnostic assessment. To evaluate, and make decisions, about options of ongoing support 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. Outcome Data to be collated for individuals to provide assurance that appropriate assessment and treatment has been provided. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and discharge of people accessing the service. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.