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Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect 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 the threat of physical abuse
- Knowledge & Skills
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Knowledge & Skills
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Knowledge & Skills
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care
- Training & Qualification
Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and (for Clinical Psychologists) neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology ; OR alternative training outside of the UK that is recognised by the Health & Care Professions Council leading to registration in the UK as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist
- Training & Qualification
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
- Training & Qualification
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnosis including people experiencing psychosis with personality disorder, substance misuse, learning disability, neurological dysfunction, additional disabilities etc)
- Knowledge & Skills
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge of recent policy and legislation in relation to people with severe and enduring mental health problems specifically and concerning mental health in general
- Training & Qualification
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced band 8a/ band 7 preceptorship Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologists or a Clinical Psychologist to join our Central Wandsworth & West Battersea Integrated Recovery Hub. This is one of four multidisciplinary Integrated Recovery Hubs in Wandsworth and provide specialist assessment, treatment and recovery work for adults with a wide variety of severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
The Trust has a strong commitment to the development of psychological work, and you will be part of a larger group of psychologists working in the service and will receive regular supervision from the borough psychology professional lead. There are good CPD opportunities within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to clients of the service team, across all sectors of care; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, nonprofessional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures; and to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide 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.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To 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.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Applicant requirements
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.
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This advert is for Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of inner London HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Oct 2026.
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