Clinical Psychologist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  Doctoral knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.

• Experience

  Doctoral level knowledge of research, methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

• Experience

  Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across the full range of care settings.

• Experience

  Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and possible physical aggression.

• Experience

  Experience of working with children, young people and families presenting with complex psychological, emotional or adjustment difficulties associated with long-term health conditions and/or specialist paediatric services

• Experience

  Experience of multidisciplinary working involving complex assessment, formulation and collaborative care planning.

• Other requirements

  Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

• Other requirements

  Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

• Skills and abilities

  Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

• Skills and abilities

  Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children and young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within and outside the NHS.

• Skills and abilities

  Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

• Skills and abilities

  Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary and multi-agency systems.

• Education and Training

  Doctoral level training in clinical 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.

• Education and Training

  Registered with the HCPC.