Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 30 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £55,524.00 to £62,652.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55524.00 - £62652.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2026 |
| Location: | Mitcham, CR4 4LQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9294-26-0176 |
Summary
To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological 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. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and management of a childs difficulties and distress, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the childs problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models andemploying methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options in line with relevant theoretical and therapeutic models and the factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of an individual case load that can include individual, family, and group-based treatment. To provide specialist clinical advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to a childs formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. 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 children and to provide advice to other teams and services on specialist risk assessment and risk management for this client group. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children to parents and carers. To ensure effective communication within the team and share relevant information as required. To implement and participate in crisis intervention measures with families in conjunction with other agencies.