Clinical & Counselling Psychologist — Assessment & Intervention

NHS Jobs

Greater London

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 90,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

NHS Jobs in London is seeking a Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist to provide expert psychological assessment and intervention for patients referred to the service. The role involves offering specialist advice to professionals, developing treatment plans, and carrying out risk assessments to support safe, effective care across settings.

You will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to formulation, discharge planning and ongoing monitoring of client

Responsibilities

To offer specialist psychological assessment and intervention to patients referred to the service.
To provide specialist advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing to clients formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems 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.
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 treatment.