Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a)
@Mind Professionals posted 2 weeks ago Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Jobs ID 40116
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Band Band 8A
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Profession Clinical Psychologist
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Role type NHS
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Profession Category Psychology
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Job Description
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a)
Location: Mitcham, London, Greater London
Contract: Locum – ASAP start
Hours: Full-time
Specialty: CAMHS
Mind Professionals are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist for full-time locum work as part of a CAMHS Assessment Service, working in Mitcham, London, Greater London.
Key Responsibilities (not exhaustive):
– To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
– To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and management of a child’s difficulties and distress, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the child’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
– To be responsible for implementing a range of therapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
– To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options in line with relevant theoretical and therapeutic models and the factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
Requirements (not exhaustive):
– HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
– Educated to degree level or equivalent
– Professional postgraduate qualification(s) in one of the following disciplines: Clinical Psychology OR Counselling Psychology
– Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and compl