Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful candidates will support the clinical team by:

• Providing psychological assessments for adults with suspected autism under the close supervision of a practitioner psychologist including psychometric and neuropsychological assessments.
• Working directly with adults, offering guidance, and information throughout the assessment process.
• Liaising with other professionals to ensure effective communication and coordination of clients care.
• Providing brief psychological intervention following diagnostic outcomes, including providing psychoeducation, signposting and onward care navigation.
• Assisting the MDT in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials.
• Maintaining high standards of clinical documentation, confidentiality and information governance in accordance with Trust policies and local procedures.
• Working in line with professional, ethical and safeguarding standards at all times.
• Contributing to data collection, service evaluation and audit as outlined by service demands.
• Supporting administrative processes linked to clinical activity e.g. maintaining databases, outcome measures and waiting lists.
• Providing other administrative duties to ensure the effective running of the service (e.g. development of service literature, and patient resources, booking rooms, arranging meetings, taking minutes etc).

For a full list of responsibilities, please see attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A First-class or Upper-second-class Bachelor's degree with Honours in Psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society and confers the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of BPS

Desirable

• Further study or qualifications relevant to neurodevelopmental conditions

Experience

Essential

• Sufficient post-graduate experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs to be able to work clinically with close direct supervision.
• Post-graduate experience of conducting research projects or audits
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.

Desirable

• The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges, and neurodevelopmental conditions. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do.

Knowledge

Essential

• Graduate level knowledge of psychological research methodology and statistical analysis.
• Good theoretical knowledge of the problems experienced by and needs of people with autism and of methods of assessment and intervention
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training.

Skills

Essential

• Skills in relevant psychological assessment and interventions that enable working as a pre-qualified practitioner with close clinical supervision.
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, information to clients, families and colleagues.
• Skills in providing supporting teaching and training provided by psychologists or others to other professional groups.
• Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.

Desirable

• Skills in completing neuropsychological assessments

Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, participating in effective team functioning and holding team roles.
• Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions.
• Ability to identify and follow relevant clinical governance procedures.
• Ability to manage occasional emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
• Ability to communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information to people who may have impediments to understanding.
• Ability to manage verbal abuse and hostility directed at self.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingswood Centre

134 Honeypot Lane

NW9 9QY

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)