NHS Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

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 ongoing contract role.

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

Location: Sutton

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Summary:

• Provide highly specialist clinical psychology services to a small number of children and young people identified through the Dynamic Support Register with a diagnosis of ASD and their families/carers across all sectors of care; providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
• Carry a caseload and coordinate care for those children, young people, and families on the caseload.
• Offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care and formulations, working within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.
• Provide outreach work within various locations, including but not limited to inpatient settings, schools, homes, community placements, and local CAMHS districts (across South West London) as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
• Support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees’ PADRs.
• Within supervision and team meetings, support and promote the use of measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
• Seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered and developed throughout the duration of the pilot.
• Utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
• Work with the Clinical Service Manager to lead the work of a particular team or service area.

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.

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.