Job summary
Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Band 8a Lisson Grove
The Westminster Health Learning Disabilities Partnership is an established health team providing high quality services for people with learning disabilities. Within this team psychology plays a key role in the development and delivery of these services.
We are seeking to recruit an experienced qualified psychologist with a keen interest in working in adult learning disability services. You will be required to provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions along with advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to non- psychologist colleagues, staff and families who access our service.
Main duties of the job
You will undertake direct and indirect work with service users with learning disabilities, autism and challenging behaviour, their carers, family members and other agencies and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The person appointed will have a Professional Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and will be registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
The service has good links with the North London Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, to which it regularly provides clinical placements to doctoral trainees.
Informal discussions are welcome by contacting: Dr. Inderpal Daddi (isdaddi@westminster.gov.uk)
Applications to our posts will be prioritised in accordance with the London Redeployment Service Operating framework. Therefore, priority status will be given to internal applicants at risk of redundancy and then, following any internal processes, to NHS Staff in London who are at risk of redundancy. If no at risk staff member is appointed posts will be advertised externally on NHS Jobs. However external processes will be halted at any stage if we receive a suitable application from an at risk NHS staff member in London.
Closing date for applications is: 4 weeks from posting
Interview date is: TBD
About us
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Single occupancy accommodation in Central London - (we can help you find accommodation in London, support you with your deposit)
- Support with gaining your driving license *T&C's apply
- Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure a highly qualified clinical psychology service to children who are referred to the Child Development Centre for assessment and intervention, across all sectors of care.
To develop the role of clinical psychology in order to deliver a direct and indirect clinical assessment and therapy service for children with complex neuro-development difficulties and their families.
To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities across a range of settings and agencies, where appropriate.
To work in conjunction with parent, carers, statutory and non-statutory agencies to ensure a holistic approach to assessment and intervention.
To assess and treat a specialist caseload and maintain client records.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by trainee and assistant psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment to children who are referred to the Child Development Centre.
To work autonomously adhering to professional guidelines, government policies / initiatives and the overall framework / pathways developed by the Child Development Service.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy & service development and research within the area of developmental disorders and developmental delayPlease see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure a highly qualified clinical psychology service to children who are referred to the Child Development Centre for assessment and intervention, across all sectors of care.
To develop the role of clinical psychology in order to deliver a direct and indirect clinical assessment and therapy service for children with complex neuro-development difficulties and their families.
To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities across a range of settings and agencies, where appropriate.
To work in conjunction with parent, carers, statutory and non-statutory agencies to ensure a holistic approach to assessment and intervention.
To assess and treat a specialist caseload and maintain client records.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by trainee and assistant psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment to children who are referred to the Child Development Centre.
To work autonomously adhering to professional guidelines, government policies / initiatives and the overall framework / pathways developed by the Child Development Service.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy & service development and research within the area of developmental disorders and developmental delayPlease see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Further specialist training and experience in the administration and interpretation of the ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule); a range of neuropsychological tests including the WISC, WIAT and NEPSY (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test; Neuropsychological Assessment of development); CARS (Childhood Autism Rating Scale) and knowledge and experience of assessment and intervention of complex feeding difficulties.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Further specialist training and experience in the administration and interpretation of the ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule); a range of neuropsychological tests including the WISC, WIAT and NEPSY (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test; Neuropsychological Assessment of development); CARS (Childhood Autism Rating Scale) and knowledge and experience of assessment and intervention of complex feeding difficulties.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
