# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Sidcup
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £63,665 to £70,887 a year pa inc
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## 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 be able to work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. 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.

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

- 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.

**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.

**Benefits**

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 8a salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year pa inc

**Requirements**

- Doctoral qualification in clinical psychology or an equivalent

- HCPC registration

- Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in clinical supervision

## Skills

### Required
- clinical psychology
- psychological assessments
- therapeutic models
- research skills
- audit
- policy development

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