Senior Clinical Psychologist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• other

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

• other

  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

  Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

• Knowledge

  Skills in the use of analysing complex information from many sources in order to make decisions regarding appropriate treatment pans, frequently requiring sustains and intense concentration

• Knowledge

  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 clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient 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.

• Experience

  Experience of working with considerable autonomy, and exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care, treatment and discharge.

• Experience

  Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts. agreed by the Director of Psychology.

• Qualifications

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

• Qualifications

  Training in clinical supervision of doctoral trainee clinical psychologists.

• Qualifications

  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

• Qualifications

  Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.

• Qualifications

  Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.

• Qualifications

  IT skills to use word processing, data entry, statistical packages and Powerpoint for presentations.

• personal qualities

  Responsible and sensitive to clients’ needs, showing an ability to balance their needs with that of the service.

• personal qualities

  Able to contain distressing and painful information providing clients with a feeling of security and a sense of being understood

• personal qualities

  Able to contain and work with organisational stress such as difficult team dynamics.

• personal qualities

  Able to make good decisions in times of crisis or when faced with highly distressed clients

• personal qualities

  Shows awareness of one’s personal limits and can discuss cases openly with supervisor, asking for help with faced with challenges

• personal qualities

  Able to sustain intense periods of concentration to carry out complex assessments when faced with the young person, their family and significant others.

• personal qualities

  Able to organise and plan own workload and that of trainee clinical psychologists.