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Band 8a Clinical Psychologist

Employer
NHS Professionals - Flexible Workers
Location
Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust - St Pancras Hospital
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
23 Nov 2020

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Job Title and Grade: Band 8a Clinical Psychologist

Location/Trust: Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust - St Pancras Hospital - NHS Veteran's Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service, NW1 0PE

Pay Rates: Band 8Aa, inner rate £ 28.08

Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00.

Job Role -

- Required to undertake initial assessments of new referrals to the TIL Service, taking into account current mental state, presenting and historical issues, needs for additional medical/psychological assessment, make recommendations about further support needed around medical/psychological and social intervention required. Includes taking clinical measures.

- Timely triage and arrangement of new assessments and interventions, following NHSE KPIs

- Good report writing skills required to complete assessment reports/onwards referrals in a timely and professional manner.

- Comfortable with liaison and joint work with different services and people across the London region.

- Experience of delivering therapy/training in a therapeutic modality

- Assessment and on-going work requires assessment and management of risk to self/others, including potential forensic history. Familiarity with safeguarding procedures/MARAC.

- Hold a caseload of clients, some of whom will require some active case management around referrals onto supporting statutory organisations, other NHS/social care services, and other charitable organisations.

- Identifying carers and their needs.

- Comfortable with multi-tasking.

- Work remotely and on site as needed, using PPE as required.

- Attend bi-weekly team meetings, liaise closely with colleagues from different disciplines, taking a lead on discussion of assessments and potentially other areas.

- Play a duty role as needed in the team in working hours, taking calls from administrators/non-qualified staff that may have clinical complexity.

- Familiarity with Veterans' needs would be helpful.

- There may be some expectation for this person to provide clinical supervision or training to others, taking advantage of specialist knowledge.

Please see full job description for further information in regards to the role.

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: -

Competitive Pay Rates- work this week, get paid next week!
First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
Dedicated consultants
Flexible working options
Free DBS and free training
Build holiday allowance
Support when you need it - 24/7 365 days- Call us anytime on 03330 144 370
Stakeholder pension scheme

Who are NHS Professionals?

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

We have over 130,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS.

Disclaimer
Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

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Please note that you will be contacted via e-mail throughout the recruitment process, so please check your e-mails regularly.

We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

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.

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Applications from job seekers who require current Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the current Resident Labour Market Test which will be in place until the end of December 2020. UK Visas and Immigration requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

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