Clinical Psychologist
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation TrustSearch for more jobs in London
Job overview
Post: Fixed Term Contract Band 7 Clinical Psychologist *We have two posts available within our team (Permanent and Fixed term).
Applicants are encouraged to apply for both posts, as Fixed term WTE may be negotiable for successful applicants.
This fixed term post presents an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join the Tic Disorder Service.
The post holder will be based in a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and treatment to children and young people with complex neurodevelopmental disorders (including Tourette syndrome and functional tics) alongside commonly co-occurring neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders.
Supervision and line management is provided by a Principal Clinical Psychologist. Training will be provided and there are strong research and development opportunities on the team.
Please contact Tara Murphy ([email protected]), Maria Hadji-Michael ([email protected]) or Anthony Harrison ([email protected]) for further information or discussion about the role.
Interviews will be held online on the 14th November.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for providing a systematic and autonomous clinical psychology service, within the Tic Disorder Service
- To provide psychological assessments of patients in person and using telemedicine
- To provide specialist diagnostic cognitive evaluation in collaboration with the MDT
- To assess and evaluate information from the child and family relating to medical condition, developmental status and mental health
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options
- Delivering evidence based psychological interventions in relation to tics and a range of co-occurring disorders
- To deliver psychological intervention groups to children and those involved in their care
- To adapt and apply evidence-based intervention protocol
- To ensure that patients have research-quality base-line and session outcome measurement, in line with national IAPT policy
- To contribute to the dissemination of psychological research and theory
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patient
- To act as lead clinician on certain cases
- To communicate effectively in a sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients
- To attend case conferences, reviews and other meetings as appropriate
- To attend and contribute to weekly referrals and meetings as required
- To ensure that reports are entered into the relevant notes and communicated
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.