Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
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Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential Criteria
1. Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or registered for, and actively pursuing, the Statement of Equivalence in Clinical Psychology.
2. HCPC Registration
Desirable Criteria
1. Additional qualifications in research or therapy at MSc, Doctorate or Diploma level
Experience
Essential Criteria
1. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
2. Experience of work with people with significant learning disabilities in community and inpatient settings.
3. Experience of provision of specific evidence-based therapies to adults with learning disabilities.
Desirable Criteria
1. Experience of receiving and providing supervision.
2. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential Criteria
1. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
2. 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.
3. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
4. Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
5. High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
6. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable Criteria
1. Knowledge of the theory and practice of adapted psychological therapies for people with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties.
2. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Other
Essential Criteria
1. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
2. 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.
3. Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting.
Desirable Criteria
1. Experience of working within a multicultural framework including through the use of interpreters.
2. Personal experience of mental health problems.
Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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