Band 8A Clinical Psychologist

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Job summary

Whymight this job interest you?

Are you an experienced Clinical Psychologist looking for a new opportunity? North London NHS Foundation Trust are seeking a talented individual to join a welcoming and highly regarded team for a temporary placement.

Main duties of the job

North London NHS Foundation Trust believe that by working together, the Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and their patients than they can by working apart, transforming and creating a positive environment for their service users, staff and visitors. They develop and retain their staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities and promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives. They also have excellent internal staff network support groups.

If you're passionate about making a difference in mental health care and working within a dynamic, forward-thinking team, we'd love to hear from you!

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression: access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.

Work-life Balance: flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave.

Opportunity & Access: over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.

Job description

Job responsibilities

In this role:

• You will be part of the Neurodevelopmental team in either of the 3 Boroughs: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
• You will be providing a specialist service to children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs (e.g. ASD, ADHD), offering specialist assessments, contributing to the diagnostic process and formulating areas of strengths and needs to inform on evidence-based interventions.
• You will be providing clinical supervision to clinicians and trainees and will also provide support and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, professionals and non-professional staff. There are also opportunities to deliver therapeutic interventions, utilise research skills for audit and service development.
• This role will also be considered for part-time and weekends are available if necessary.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• What you'll need and be able to provide evidence for:
• You will have demonstrable experience in assessing children with autism or ADHD.
• You will have knowledge of RIO.
• You must have a degree or equivalent level of experience for the role.
• You must possess a professional qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology.
• You will have a Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited
Address

St. Ann's Hospital

St. Ann's Road

London

N15 3TH

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