Clinical Psychologist (Community MDT Feeding ASD diagnostic clinic)
| Posting date: | 02 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,156.00 to £71,148.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64156.00 - £71148.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Location: | Putney, London, SW15 1AA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9200-25-0995 |
Summary
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. 2. Working within the Autism Diagnostic Pathway, to provide highly specialist neurodevelopmental, cognitive and psychological assessments of CYP based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and members of the MDT or other multiagency professionals involved in the patients care. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about the psychological aspects of treatment options offered 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, (including cultural factors) as well as ensuring that psychological input is in line with and supports the patients best medical interest. 6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment options and discharge planning, 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. 7. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals involved in the patients care. 8. To ensure that all members of the Autism assessment MDT have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of patients of the service, through the provision of advice, consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory. 9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management as appropriate for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. 11. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.