Senior Clinical Psychologist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other

  Demonstrable interest in and enthusiasm for working with this specific clinical population

• Other

  Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.

• Other

  Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

• Other

  The postholder must have an independent means of motorised transport with access to a vehicle for work (or acceptable alternative)

• Skills

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

• Skills

  Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

• Skills

  Skills in providing consultation & supervision to other professional and non-professional groups

• Skills

  Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.

• Skills

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

• Skills

  Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

• Knowledge

  Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two highly specialised psychological therapies

• Knowledge

  Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.

• Knowledge

  Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality

• Experience

  Significant experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist

• Experience

  Experience of working with a wide range of adults, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and residential care settings.

• Experience

  Ability to maintain 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 patients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.

• Experience

  Experience of delivering teaching, training and clinical supervision.

• Experience

  Experience of representing Psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

• Experience

  Experience of the application of Psychology in different cultural contexts.

• Experience

  Experience of working with adults with physical health difficulties

• Qualifications

  Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

• Qualifications

  Registered with HCPC