Band 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in Greater London is looking for a Band 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist. This role involves providing specialized psychological assessments, contributing to ADHD and Autism assessment pathways, and supervising assistant psychologists. Successful candidates must have a doctorate in clinical psychology, HCPC registration, and prior experience in multidisciplinary environments. Attractive benefits and a supportive working environment are offered, accommodating a professional's career progression.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous benefits

Training opportunities

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience in a senior role.
• Experience in psychological assessment and treatment across diverse settings.
• Post-doctoral training in specialized areas of psychology.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment to patients.
• Supervise assistant psychologists handling family liaison.
• Contribute to ADHD & Autism assessment pathways.

Skills

Skills in psychological assessment

Communication skills

Consultation skills

Knowledge of theoretical models

Ability to form relationships

Interest in service development

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

HCPC registration

Eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist status

Tools

SPSS

Job description

Band 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist

*** This vacancy has been readvertised as previous successful applicant had to withdraw for personal reasons which has necessitated re-advertising. We also have extended the closing deadline due to the Christmas period.***

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical or counselling psychologist to join an expanding specialist CAMHS for neurodevelopment assessment/intervention and paediatric psychology. The post holder will, under the supervision of the Lead Clinical Psychologist, provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment to patients, and provide support and consultation to non-psychologist colleagues. Outpatient caseload will include both neurodevelopmental and paediatric liaison cases, triaging these referrals and providing both individual and family intervention. The post holder will carry out cognitive neuropsychological assessments where needed, and contribute to service development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have post-qualification experience to work in this senior role.

They will contribute to the ADHD & Autism assessment pathways within the service by working alongside other clinical psychologists and supervising the work of an assistant psychologist in terms of family liaison and database maintenance. The post holder will be expected to carry a caseload of children and young people with neurodevelopmental mental health difficulties and/or chronic or acute medical problems.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values: Positively welcoming; Actively respectful; Clearly communicating; Visibly reassuring

Education & professional Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
• HCPC registration
• Eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist status
• Post-doctoral experience/training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Evidence of post-qualification supervised clinical experience in therapeutic intervention and management of clients with physical health conditions using cognitive-behavioural assessment and intervention techniques.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Post-qualification experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments.
• Post-qualification experience of working with children with physical health conditions and their families, delivering interventions to parents, families and individuals

Skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management with complex cases
• Knowledge of at least two relevant theoretical models and psychological interventions relevant to young people with neurodevelopmental and physical health conditions
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and quantitative data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the British Psychological Society/HCPC
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Interest and ability to contribute to service development.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Familiarity with SPSS databases and statistical package

Personal Qualities & attributes

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Other

• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£64,156 to £71,148 a yearper annum (pro-rata) inclusive of HCAS