# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist **Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Sidcup **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: temporary **Salary**: £63,665 to £70,887 a year pa inc **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9277-26-1123?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_65ff6e11-3b2 ## Description We are looking for an enthusiastic Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join the Oxleas Intensive Community Support Team (ALD Services). This is a full-time, fixed-term position (12 months). The role will require supporting clients with learning disabilities presenting with complex needs and going through difficult times and their families and networks, providing specialist psychological assessments, interventions and treatment. The postholder will also be able to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. **Main duties of the job** - Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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 client's care. - Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems. - Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. - Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. - Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans. - Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. - Provide clinical placements for clinical psychology trainees. **About us** Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. **Benefits** - Agenda for Change pay scheme - Band 8a - Salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year pa inc **Requirements** - Have a Doctoral qualification in clinical psychology or an equivalent - Have HCPC registration ## Skills ### Required - clinical psychology - psychological assessments - therapeutic models - risk assessment - research skills - audit - policy development - service evaluation --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9277-26-1123?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)