Employer: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Georges Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £54,320 - £60,981 per annum including inner London HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/03/2025 23:59
Clinical Psychologist - Autism Assessment Pathway
NHS AfC: Band 7
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England; we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
This is a new post that will form an essential part of the neurodevelopmental and autism diagnostic pathway MDT, ensuring compliance with national guidelines.
The post holder is expected to contribute to a highly specialist clinical psychology service for children (0-8yrs) seen within the autism and ADHD assessment pathways. This will involve undertaking screening assessment, specialist psychological assessment, and providing psychological consultation, advice, and expertise to other clinical staff.
The post holder will be required to work with clinicians at St George’s Hospital, and at other connected agencies across South West London and within the local integrated care system (ICS) to ensure that the evolving service complements current local service provision and fits the vision for improved neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people.
Main duties of the job
Main duties include the provision of specialist screening and assessment of children 0-5 and 0-8yr with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions including ADHD and Autism.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* Registered with the HCPC.
* Postdoctoral training in neurodevelopmental assessment (for Autism and ADHD).
* Postdoctoral training in psychological therapeutic approaches that can be applied to working with paediatric patients (e.g. ACT, CFT, EBMA).
Experience
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity indicating the ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Experience in applying psychological therapy within a family context.
* Experience of contributing to and managing MDTs.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
* The ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working in a neurodevelopmental assessment service.
* Experience in completing cognitive assessments and the use of key psychometric assessment tools such as the WISC-V, WPPSI-IV.
Knowledge
* Doctoral level or post-qualification knowledge of systemic and organisational working within a health care setting.
* Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology, showing sophisticated understanding of models of assessment and intervention related to neurodevelopmental conditions.
* Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient population and mental health.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Skills
* Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management that frequently require sustained and intense concentration.
* A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
* Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
* Ability to identify, provide, and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
* Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
* Skilled in providing consultation and training to other professional and non-professional groups.
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible, and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features.
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.
Name: Fiona Synder
Job title: Consultant Lead for Paediatric Neuropsychology
Email address: fiona.snyder@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 02087252214
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