Locum Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a)
@Mind Professionals posted 3 months ago Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Jobs ID 38317
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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: Wandsworth, London, Greater London
Contract: Locum – ASAP
Hours: Part-time – 4 days/week
Specialty: Learning Disabilities
Mind Professionals are looking for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist for part-time Locum work in Learning Disabilities, working as part of a Learning Disability Healthcare Team based in Wandsworth, Greater London.
Key Responsibilities:
– To work within the community service providing highly specialist psychological assessments of clients 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, all in the context of multidisciplinary working.
– To formulate and evaluate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems and / or behaviour which challenges 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 highly specialist psychological interventions, across outpatient, community and in-patient settings, for individuals, carers, families and groups, 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, developmental, and systemic processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Requirements:
– Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifica