Clinical Psychologist - Reading, United Kingdom - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
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Reading, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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A new and exciting position has arisen for a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist working as part of the Diabetes service located at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading.

The post holder will provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to the patients who access the Diabetes Service.

As an integrated member of the team, the post holder will deliver direct assessment and intervention alongside consultation and supervision to the wider team.

The post holder will be required to work with patients, families across a range of contexts including acute wards, outpatient clinics and community settings as needed.

The post holder will be expected to work with the medical team on a sustainable programme of psychological support.


The town of Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton.

With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC recently rated the care provided by The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as good.

Our values; Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.


To undertake highly specialist psychological assessment and communicate a clinical opinion in order to inform and/or develop a case formulation to guide psychological or surgical intervention/consultation, based on analysis and interpretation of highly complex information from a variety of sources including clinical interview, direct observation, questionnaire measures, up-to-date literature review, psychological assessment (including assessment of mental state and psychological formulation drawing on a variety of models), psychometric assessment and with regard to other medical investigations if relevant.

To give an opinion based on this in cases where professional opinion may differ, and in which judgement has to be made about the significance of data where data may be unreliable/missing.

An integral part of a psychological assessment, to simultaneously exercise well-developed manual skills (i.e.

accurate manipulation of a wide range of neuropsychological test materials, including physical materials), with which accuracy is important and it is often necessary to take account of interfering factors (such as patient distractibility, or level of comprehension).

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