# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Tolworth
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £63665.00 to £70887.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for a dedicated Clinical Psychologist to join the Kingston Psychology & Psychotherapies services based in the North Kingston Integrated Recovery Hub. The North Kingston Integrated Recovery Hub provides secondary mental health care for adults experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.

The successful applicant will be committed to MDT working and to advancing trauma informed care across the trust. You will contribute to the delivery of evidence-based psychological therapies for severe and enduring mental health conditions, including psychosis & bipolar affective disorder, personality disorders, and complex mood, anxiety disorders & PTSD.

The role is dynamic and will require you to attend multidisciplinary meetings and to offer supervision, consultation, and training to clinicians within the wider MDT team.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team.

- Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems.

- Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups.

- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options.

- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.

- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals.

**Requirements:**

- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology.

- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.

- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

- Experience of working with people who experience severe, complex, and long-term mental health problems.

**Benefits:**

- Flexible working patterns.

- Career development and training opportunities.

- A variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment.

The salary for this position ranges from £63,665 to £70,887 per annum.

## Skills

### Required
- specialist psychological assessment
- evidence-based psychological therapies
- trauma informed care
- MDT working
- clinical psychology

### Nice to have
- teaching
- training
- supervision
- multicultural framework

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