Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including substantial post-qualification experience within the specialty of Clinical Health Psychology

• 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 across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse

• Experience

  Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified psychologist and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan

• Experience

  Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision

• Experience

  Experience of professionally managing qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists

• Experience

  Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area

• Experience

  Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working with a multicultural framework

• Experience

  Experience of multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working

• Experience

  Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse

• Experience

  Experience of identifying and interpreting appropriate National and NHS policies to develop strategic planning and service development

• Experience

  Experience of recruitment

• Knowledge & Skills

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

• Knowledge & Skills

  Advanced knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies for adults with health conditions and the evidence base for treatment

• Knowledge & Skills

  Evidence of continuing training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post doctoral training (diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, OR an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice–based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a postgraduate diploma

• Knowledge & Skills

  Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues

• Knowledge & Skills

  Advanced clinical skills and practice of at least one model of psychological therapy

• Knowledge & Skills

  Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups

• Knowledge & Skills

  Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.

• Knowledge & Skills

  Well-developed consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups

• Personal Qualities

  Able to contain and work with organisational stress and to help others to manage their own stress

• Personal Qualities

  Interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by Clinical Health Psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary health settings

• Personal Qualities

  A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multiprofessional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area

• Education / Qualifications

  Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or it’s equivalent for those trained prior to 1996).

• Education / Qualifications

  Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.