Practitioner Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the ARTS Team including AIM assessment and intervention for sexually harmful behaviour, violence risk assessment and neurodevelopmental assessment (ADHD & cognitive assessment).

To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.

To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.

To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.

KR 3 Policy and service development

To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.

To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.

KR 5 Management and supervision

To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists with support from a more senior psychologist.

To supervise trainee applied psychologists within own area of specialism.

KR 6 Teaching and Training

To undertake occasional teaching and training of pre and post- qualification psychologists and specialised training to other professions as appropriate.

To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the ARTS Team by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology and forensic work with young people and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.

KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance

To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 8 Research and development

To initiate, undertake, support and supervise regular complex service evaluation and audits.

To initiate and carry out appropriate research where appropriate and within scope of the service.

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines.

To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC Standards for Continuing Professional Development.

KR10 General

To travel to home visits, prisons, and other teams and services as appropriate and across the Trust when required.

To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Clinical psychologist: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Clinical Registration os a Clinical Psychologist with HCPC

Desirable

• Training in AIM Assessment & Intervention
• Training in use of SAVRY, SAPROF or MACI
• Supervision Training

Experience

Essential

• oEvidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in with a range of young people presenting with complex mental health, emotional and behavioual difficulties
• oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
• oExperience of supervising assistant and trainee psychologists having completed the relevant training.
• oPost-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities.

Desirable

• oExperience of working with young people who perpetrate sexually harmful behaviour
• oExperience of working with young offenders

Knowledge

Essential

• oKnowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions for young people with complex mental health and trauma
• oTheoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatments including emotional instability, trauma, ADHD, depression and anxiety.
• oAdvanced knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics in ADHD.
• oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities.

Desirable

• Knowledge of complex trauma and trauma informed approaches.

Skills

Essential

• oTo deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences.
• oTo select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
• oSkills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Catford Old Town Hall

Catford Road

Catford

SE6 9SE

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)