Practitioner Psychologist 8A

Job overview

We are an innovative and welcoming team who are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist to join our Complex Neurodevelopmental Service at the Evelina Children’s Hospital.

This is a great opportunity to work collaboratively in embedded teams with colleagues from speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology (clinical, educational and health) and specialist nursing to provide specialist assessments and intervention for children from the South East regions and beyond. We see children and young people with a range of suspected developmental needs which are often complex and multiple in nature (including autism, epilepsy, attention, learning, behaviour that challenges, neurological and other complex medical health presentations). The ideal post holder would be experienced in working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties.

The post holder will join the dynamic and supportive psychology service across the Evelina London.

There are many opportunities for professional development in this highly experienced team including teaching, research and service development as well as learning from diverse range of expertise within the service and across GSTT.

Whilst we are advertising for a 4 ½ day permanent post, we may also have capacity to add eligible candidates from successful interview to our talent pool to offer other roles we may have within Evelina, should candidates be interested.

Main duties of the job

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments based on appropriate use of a range methods (including cognitive assessment, validated tests (e.g. ADOS-2), self-report measures, rating scales, observations and clinical interviews with children, families and other agencies)
• To work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to provide high quality integrated care, contributing to diagnosis and formulation of young people’s neurodevelopmental and mental health needs.
• To provide recommendations for support based on psychological formulation and evidence base, liaising and consulting with local agencies as appropriate. Deliver evidence based psychological interventions adapted and tailored to the needs of children and families.
• Supervision of assistant, trainee and undergraduate psychology students

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification