Locum Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a)
@Mind Professionals posted 1 month ago Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Jobs ID 40527
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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 or Kingston upon Thames, London, Greater London
Contract: Locum – ASAP start
Hours: Full-time (Part-time may be available, with flexibility about hours)
Specialty: Adult / Inpatient
Mind Professionals are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with a wide range of experience for full-time locum work (with potential part-time and hour flexibility) in an Adult Inpatient role.
The post holder will be working in a hospital setting, potentially across two hospitals in Greater London, the first in Wandsworth and the second in Kingston upon Thames.
Key Responsibilities:
– To provide a qualified highly specialist clinical psychology or counselling psychology input to service users across two adult acute psychiatric wards.
– To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
– To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the acute and urgent care pathway and ward policies and procedures.
– To support and enhance the work of the multi-disciplinary team by providing advice, consultation, training and supervision on service users’ psychological care to other members of the team, including facilitating or supervising the facilitation of reflective practice groups.
– To lead on the implementation of trauma informed approaches to care across two admission wards.
– To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the service and participate in service related quality improvement and innovation projects.
– To take professional responsibility for attached doctoral trainee practitioner psychologists (8a role only), assistants and/or graduate psychologists.
Requirements:
– HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
– Doctorate level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
– Experience of specialist psychological assessment
– Experience work