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Person specification

Essential

Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a significant period , including post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
Substantial demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Experience of working with Psychosis and complex Mental Health difficulties
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Experience of providing consultation, supervision and training to multidisciplinary staff.
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent
Registration with Health & Care Professions Council as Practitioner Psychologist
Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
Well developed and efficient communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
Skill and experience in using IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems
Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy
Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services
Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulations intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/or other psychological professionals

Desirable

Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
Experience of representing the Profession in local policy fora
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice
A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multiprofessional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area
Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in assessment and inpatient services

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

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