Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead Autism Services
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team to ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the service team, across all sectors of care. To supervise and support the psychological diagnostic assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all other psychological therapists within the ASD Assessment Team, for which the post holder has designated professional responsibility, including clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs. As a major requirement of the job, to carry out audit, policy, service development and research activities. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
To provide highly specialist psychological diagnostic assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests.
To exercise responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to a team, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of service users.
To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lee Walker Job title: Operational Manager Email address: lee.walker1@nhs.net
