Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Main duties include the provision of specialist screening and assessment of children 0-5 and 0-8 years with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions including ADHD and Autism.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* 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.
Desirable Criteria
* 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
Essential Criteria
* 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.
Desirable Criteria
* 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
Essential Criteria
* Doctoral level or post-qualification knowledge of systemic and organisational working within a healthcare 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
Essential Criteria
* 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.
Desirable Criteria
* 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.
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.
Documents to Download
* Band 7 Neurodevelopmental Pathway (PDF, 456.4KB)
* Referee Contact details form (PDF, 200.6KB)
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