# Clinical Psychologist

**Company**: East London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £49387.00 to £56515.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join our Specialist Children and Young People Services (SCYPS) and Autism Diagnostic Service (CHAND). The successful applicant will have relevant experience of working with children and families within the specialism of autism, and ideally experience of working within an autism diagnostic service.

The post holder will undertake joint ASC assessments within the CHAND diagnostic service and contribute to diagnostic discussions. They will consult to the wider team on psychological formulations and mental health presentations, linking with wider CAMHS colleagues in Newham CAMHS as appropriate. They will conduct cognitive and adaptive functioning assessments when needed. They will clinically supervise the Assistant Psychologist in the team and link with the Educational Psychologists and other Clinical Psychologists from the service.

The service works closely with multidisciplinary partners such as speech and language therapists, dieticians, paediatricians, occupational therapists, specialist nurses, and has established close working links to local tertiary hospital specialist teams at the Royal London Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

**Job Requirements:**

- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.

- Current HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist (Clinical).

- Experience of working with children and young people with autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities and co-morbid diagnoses.

- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in family, group and individual settings, and different cultural contexts.

- Experience of working with children and young people and of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.

**Desirable Skills:**

- Experience of teaching, training and providing professional and clinical supervision.

- Experienced in the administration of the Autism Diagnostic Schedule (ADOS-2).

**Salary:** £49,387 to £56,515 a year Per annum inc HCA

## Skills

### Required
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
- HCPC registration
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Learning disabilities
- Multidisciplinary team

### Nice to have
- Teaching
- Training
- Professional and clinical supervision
- Autism Diagnostic Schedule (ADOS-2)

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