Specialist Psychologist or Advanced Clinical Practitioner INW

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000

Job description

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Specialist Psychologist or Advanced Clinical Practitioner INW

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Bank Hours Flexible working - various Job ref 824-BANK-LIT1366

Site Parkview Centre for Health & Wellbeing Town London Salary £27.48 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay Salary period Hourly Closing 24/02/2025 16:00

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Job overview

JOB PURPOSE
Providing autism diagnostic assessments.

Providing specialist psychological assessment and interventions to autistic adults without a learning disability.

Offering advice and consultation on clients’ autistic presentation and needs, as well as psychological care to colleagues in non-autism services (e.g., mental health services, adult social care, inpatient teams, rough sleeping services).

Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research;

Being involved in project work which can support service delivery and policy changes within the area served by the team/service.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake protocol-based autism diagnostic assessments and psychological assessments of service users. This may include applying psychological tests, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
• To facilitate the enhancement of each individual client’s sense of wellbeing through attaining his or her optimum level of psychological functioning.
• To practice using non-discriminatory interventions that respect the clients’ customs, values, and spiritual beliefs at all times.
• To teach, or give training in, psychological skills and in aspects of learning disabilities to other professionals working with clients with learning disabilities in the Learning Disability Team and in other private and voluntary organizations as agreed.

Working for our organisation

We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:

• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.

We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.

Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholder’s professional and team/operational manager(s).
• To work within the clinical governance framework as set out in Trust policy and guidance, contributing to the setting of objectives and implementation of action plans.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
• To undertake specific administrative duties as required.
• To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required from time to time by their manager and/or clinical supervisor.

The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust & Team policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information and clinical governance including research governance.

Person specification

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATION

• Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS and registered with HCPC.
• Allied health professional with evidence of recent and continuing post-registration professional education and training equivalent to post-graduate diploma level required for the professional’s discipline.
• Registered nurse with current registration.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience

• Experience of conducting autism assessments and working in autism services.
• Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients across in neurodevelopmental or mental health services, and across a range of care settings, e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
• Experience of teaching training and/or supervision.
• Trained in formal autism assessment tools (e.g., ADOS-2, ADI-R).

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

• Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
• Race Equality Network
• Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.