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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
2. HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
Desirable criteria
3. Post-doctoral training in neuropsychology or other related area
Experience
Essential criteria
4. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
5. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
Desirable criteria
6. Post-qualification experience of working in child and adolescent mental health services or paediatrics
7. Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
8. Experience of providing clinical supervision, teaching and training.
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
9. Ability to undertake initial assessments from a biopsychosocial perspective pulling together information from a range of sources and including psychometrics where appropriate
10. Ability to undertake psychometric assessments and to score and interpret findings including consideration of the reliability and validity of the assessment findings. Frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
11. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable criteria
12. Experience of adapting assessments to the needs of a culturally, linguistically and neurodiverse population.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
13. Doctoral level knowledge of clinical / counselling psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
14. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable criteria
15. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists