Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - NHS

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to take on a new locum contract role.

Psychologist Pay Rate: £40 per hour (assignment rate)

Location: Bromley

Contract Type: Locum contract

Main duties of the Clinical Psychologist:

• Provide highly 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.
• 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.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
• Provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• Provide clinical supervision for band 7 qualified clinical psychologists within the clinical team. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.

Requirements of the Clinical Psychologist:

• Psychologists must be registered and accredited members of the BACP. (Registered Member MBACP (Accred) or Registered Member MBACP (Snr Accred).)
• Clinical Psychologist with HCPC registration.
• Recent experience working as a psychologist in the UK.
• This post is a part of the on-call rota for Bromley CAMHS. There will be an expectation to work flexibly (on occasion and where appropriate to client/service needs).
• All staff are required to be familiar with the Trusts infection control policies, and national guidance in relation to infection control.
• All staff are required to put the patient/client first and do their utmost to meet requests and needs courteously and efficiently.

Contact:

This Clinical Psychologist job is advertised by Deane Garrard; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Psychologist role as we need to meet our clients' requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.