# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist **Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust **Location**: Mitcham **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: £63,665 to £70,887 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9294-26-0446?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ababeb0d-49d ## Description The Integrated Recovery Hubs provide specialist assessment, treatment, and recovery work for adults with a wide variety of severe and enduring mental health needs, creating a stimulating and rewarding role for clinical psychology. The role focuses on providing evidence-based psychological therapies for severe and enduring mental health conditions, including psychosis & bipolar affective disorder, personality disorder, and complex mood, anxiety disorders & PTSD. As a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, you will be part of a larger group of psychologists working in the service and will receive regular supervision from the borough psychology professional lead. The post holder will be expected to work in health and other community settings, including outpatient clinics, clients' and their relatives' homes, inpatient and other hospital settings. The main duties of the job include: - Providing specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team - Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems - Implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups - Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options - Exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients - Providing specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals The Trust offers flexible working, career development, and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which employees and their careers can thrive. **Job Responsibilities** - To 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 - To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems - To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups - To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes - To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans - To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan **Person Specification** - Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology - Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS - Formal training in supervision of other psychologists - Registered with & Care Health Professions Council (HCPC) under the appropriate domain title - Experience of assessment and treatment of people with mental health problems - Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision - Experience with routine outcome monitoring **Benefits** - Flexible working - Career development - Variety of benefits ## Skills ### Required - CBT - DBT - clinical psychology - psychological assessment - therapy ### Nice to have - CBT therapist accreditation - BABCP accreditation - teaching - training - supervision --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9294-26-0446?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)