Locum Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a)
@Mind Professionals posted 4 weeks ago Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Jobs ID 36595
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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
Locum Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a)
Location: Surbiton, London
Contract: Locum – ASAP start
Hours: Part-time – Monday and Tuesday, 9:00-17:00
Specialty: Community
Mind Professionals are looking for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist for part-time Locum work as part of a community-based mental health team, based in Surbiton, London.
Key Responsibilities:
– To provide specialist psychological 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 and neuropsychological 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/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
– To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
– To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
– To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
– To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to cli