Clinical Psychologist - Winchester, United Kingdom - NHS Professionals Limited

Description

Job summary

Job Title: Clinical Psychologist

Grade: Band 7- 8a

Trust: SouthernHealth NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Avalon House, Chesil Street, Winchester, SO23 0HU

Hours: Mon- Fri

Pay rate: £ - anhour

Main duties of the job

About the Trust:

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, rated Good in their most recent CQC report, provides a wide range of mental health, physical health and learning disability services across Hampshire. Based in the centre of the South Coast, Hampshire has excellent transport links, with the M3 and M27, an airport in Southampton, as well as quick and easy access to London. As the Trust operates at over 300 sites across Hampshire, there is plenty of opportunities to experience either city, country, or coastal life. Staff can also benefit from the Trusts Academy of Clinical Excellence (ACE) which offers a specific focus on the professional development and career progression for registered nurses, nursing associates and AHPs.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

To carry out specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the clients difficulties.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and to practice within the context of evidence-based approaches and the overall therapeutic approach/ philosophy of the service.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, families, and groups, adjusting, and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To provide specialist assessments of clients presenting with cognitive impairment due to a variety of causes or organic conditions, including pre-assessment counselling and neuropsychological and functional assessments, and to be able to adjust psychological interventions to work effectively with people presenting with complex needs due to cognitive impairment and organic disorders.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for clients considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.

Qualifications

Essential