Clinical Psychologist - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Lewisham CAMHS are seeking to recruit a Clinical/Counseling Psychologist to join the
Neurodevelopmental Team located at the Kaleidoscope Centre.

The post predominantly involves providing assessments (including cognitive assessments),

consultation and evidence based interventions with children and families, where the child has a diagnosis of ASD and/or LD and a mental health disorder or challenging behaviours.

The post holder will work very closely with other disciplines in the comprehensive assessment and delivery of evidence based therapy programs; assist in team audits and service development projects.

The successful post holder will predominantly work with children aged 0-18 years.

The Neurodevelopmental Team is a vibrant, supportive and innovative multidisciplinary team that works alongside other specialist and generic CAMHS teams in Lewisham and has links with the other NDTs in SLAM.

Clinical/Counseling Psychology and be eligible for registration with the HCPC.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: parttime working and job sharing.
Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands though Health Service Discounts website

Other benefits include:

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants

The successful applicant will:

Provide specialist psychological services to the Lewisham CAMHS
Neurodevelopmental Team. The post holder will work effectively asa member of this multi-disciplinary team

Work as an independent and autonomous professional within BPS guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work.

Select and administer specialist psychological assessments including specialised psychometric assessment, neuropsychological assessment, self-report measures, as appropriate), structured observations, clinical interviews, and to interpret and integrate this highly complex data.

Formulate psychological treatment plans that are specific to each client, based upon an analysis of complex factors contributing to the presentation, and selectively drawing on appropriate conceptual and theoretical models.

Deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options.

Assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management. To be responsible for psychological interventions with carers of referred clients to the team.

Provide specialist psychological consultation and supervision to colleagues and others and to contribute to a psychologically informed framework within the service.

Communicate skilfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information with children, young people, carers and colleagues taking account of sensory and cultural barriers to communication.

Travel to statutory and third sector agencies, schools and home visits as appropriate.

Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry and recording (e. g. ePatient Journey). To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the catchment area of the
service.

Contribute to specialist clinical assessments for ADHD and ASD in multidisciplinary contexts.