Principal Clinical Psychologist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other

  Ability to travel within the geographical area.

• Other

  Flexible approach to work

• Other

  Good attendance record.

• Values

  Ability to demonstrate a range of qualities essential to the role, eg compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment.

• Values

  Ability to work in accordance with the core organisational values.

• Values

  Demonstrate a commitment to working consistently in line with our organisational values, and enabling others within the workforce to do so too as evidenced in day to day work and through discussion at PADR.

• Values

  Commitment to maintain confidentiality of clinically sensitive materials and information and to handle personal information with sensitivity and discretion.

• Values

  Ability to demonstrate professional behaviours of the highest standard.

• Experience

  Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified and senior clinical psychologist, normally including significant post-qualification experience within the designated speciality where the post is located, or relevant transferable skills.

• Experience

  Assessed experience of working effectively as a qualified and senior level clinical psychologist in the designated speciality, or relevant transferable skills. Demonstration of further specialist training/experience through having received extensive and demonstrable clinical supervision of working as a specialist Clinical Psychologist or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology.

• Experience

  Experience of specialised psychological assessment and treatment of a range of clients across a wide range of care settings.

• Experience

  Experience of working with client groups across an increasing range of clinical severity.

• Experience

  Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care, with experience of co-ordinating care within the context of multi-disciplinary care-planning.

• Experience

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

• Aptitude and Abilities

  The ability to demonstrate a high level of competence to work within the designated speciality.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  Well-developed skills in the supervision of other staff, including Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  Well-developed skills in effectively communicating very complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information, both orally and in writing, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  Developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  Capable of maintaining a high degree of professionalism and safe clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  The ability to identify and provide appropriate means of support to line-managed staff who deal with highly distressing situations, severely challenging behaviours and other stressors.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  The ability to use a variety of complex multi-media materials for a range of purposes such as teaching and training.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  Capable of effective workload management when facing competing demands.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  The ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of multidisciplinary colleagues.

• Aptitude and Abilities

  Basic IT skills.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Good Honours degree in Psychology.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Eligibility for British Psychological Society Chartered status.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Registration with Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Clinical supervision training for supervising Doctoral trainees.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Doctoral level advanced specialist knowledge of clinical psychology theory and practice, psychological therapies and their application, neuropsychological and psychometric assessment and interpretation.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within clinical psychology.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management.

• Qualifications and/or Knowledge

  Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.