Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 03 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,320.00 to £60,981.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £54320.00 - £60981.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW10 9NH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9289-SC-103 |
Summary
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health, well-being, and psychological aspects of their surgical journey and recovery, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups; 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 queer and trans affirmative models and considering the impact of wider systems on that person's experience of gender dysphoria and gender affirming surgery. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose difficulties are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, and to support other members of the MDT in risk management. To contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings; to communicate and reflect using a psychologically based framework. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. To act as a named designated professional for clients within each service. The post holders are expected to adhere to all local and national safeguarding policies, identify and appropriately escalate concerns, and work in a trauma-informed, patient-centred manner with individuals who may be at risk or have experienced abuse, neglect, or discrimination.