Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling 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 and registered with HCPC.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working at qualified level in an adult autism service
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly of a motive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of a leadership in either a clinical or other autism/mental health setting (e.g. voluntary sector, education sector)
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision, including managing performance where required

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of up-to-date neuroaffirmative approaches for neurodivergent service-users
• Fluency and proficiency in the use of standardised evidence-based autism diagnostic tools, including ADOS-2, ADI-R, 3Di and ability to make adaptations as appropriate
• Sophisticated and effective communication skills, orally and in writing. Ability to communicate highly technical, and 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 design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical/counselling psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to Autism and mental health
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC

Key attributes

Essential

• Good leadership skills, responsible and reliable
• Strong work ethics, good team-player, positive attitude in face of challenges
• Innovative and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to advocate for, support and empower disadvantaged service-users
• Sensitive and thoughtful about cultural diversities

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

215 Lisson Grove

London

NW8 8LW

Employer's website

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