Clinical Psychologist Lewisham

Clinical Psychologist

Key Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychology services to children, young people, families, and carers, including assessment, treatment, planning, implementation, and monitoring of outcomes.
• Contribute to creating a psychologically safe environment for staff, service users, and carers from diverse backgrounds.
• Provide clinical supervision and consultation as a lead specialist in Psychology.
• Undertake service evaluation, audit, and research.
• Work autonomously within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and Trust policies and procedures.
• Agree outcomes and results with clinical/professional leads and determine best implementation strategies.
• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and interventions for clients, including assessments for psychosis, learning disabilities, personality disorders, offending behaviour, etc. (PG Diploma level).
• Provide culturally appropriate interventions with carers and families of referred clients.
• Assess and monitor risk, and develop appropriate risk management plans.
• Act as care/CPA coordinator, keyworker, initiating, planning, and reviewing care plans, coordinating CPA, and attending meetings.
• Contribute to the effective working of the team and service, utilizing a psychologically informed framework.
• Contribute to the delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• Challenge discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
• Advise other service members on specialist psychological care.
• Receive regular clinical and professional supervision.
• Ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS, Trust, and HCPC standards.
• Contribute to the allocation and/or clinical supervision of more junior psychologists.
• Supervise trainee applied psychologists.
• Contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychologists, as needed.
• Contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychologists, as needed.
• Provide supervision for the psychological work of other multi-disciplinary staff.
• Implement policies and procedures, and propose improvements.
• Contribute to service development through projects.
• Contribute to service user consultation and engagement in planning and service delivery.
• Carefully utilize Trust equipment and resources.
• Liaise with referrers, GPs, and other professionals to develop and review care plans.
• Utilize theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice.

Skills and Expertise

• Clinical Psychology
• Assessment
• Treatment
• Intervention
• Supervision
• Risk Assessment
• Care Coordination
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Evidence-Based Practice