Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Serving people with learning disabilities in the London Borough of Hackney, the Hackney Integrated Learning Disability Team is an integrated health and social care multidisciplinary service. The service is committed to facilitation and liaison with local health and social care provider services in order that people with learning disabilities can access mainstream services where possible and that their experience and outcomes are good.

Additionally, the service provides specialist input to clients where this is required.

Providing a highly specialist clinical psychology service to people with learning disability and their families/carers including assessment, development and implementation of specialist psychological interventions, the post holder will develop a key role in the Hackney Integrated Learning Disability Service. The postholder will contribute to the continuing development of psychology and of the service. Acting autonomously the postholder will manage a defined caseload of complex cases independently, evidencing problem solving and clinical reasoning skills in line with evidence based and client-centred principles.

S/he will be involved in clinical research and development where appropriate.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

• Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the clients and those of more junior staff providing a comprehensive and appropriate psychology service to clients, families and carers
• Play a key role in the advanced assessment and treatment of clients who may have acute, chronic or complex presentation and determine clinical diagnosis and intervention required
• Assess clients needs and direct to other services as appropriate
• Maintain records as an autonomous practitioner
• Communicate effectively with health and social care professionals and outside agencies regarding client care and progress
• Communicate with other members of the Team regarding policies, service development and management plans
• Undertake a significant clinical caseload working under supervision in collaboration with other agencies and health and social care professionals

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or due to qualify
• HCPC registration
• Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS

• Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees and qualified Clinical Psychologists after 2 years qualified
• Relevant specialist training or qualifications e.g. CBT, systemic therapies, neuropsychology, etc.

• Relevant experience working in learning disability settings
• Work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
• Experience of working with people with behaviours considered to be complex or challenging

• Experience of delivering clinical supervision

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for people with learning disabilities who have complex needs
• Knowledge of psychological research, national policy and legislation relevant to learning disability
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
• Able to provide a culturally competent service

• Fluent in a community language (eg Turkish, Bengali/Sylheti, Vietnamese etc)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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