Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 22.5 hours per week (Part Time)
- Job ref
- 200-NN-7394972-AHP-Z
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Eileen Lecky
- Town
- Putney, London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Inner)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist (Community MDT Feeding + ASD diagnostic clinic)
Band 8a
Job overview
This is an exciting split role across two distinct services. Two days a week the post holder will provide a qualified clinical psychology service for children and their families seen by the Community Multidisciplinary Feeding Clinic. The main role in this part of the job is to provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy for children living in Wandsworth who have aversive/restrictive eating behaviour related to sensory or behavioural feeding difficulties, or Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
One day a week, the post holder will undertake assessments for ASD in particular the ADI-R (or equivalent) and the ADOS. They will work as part of a wider team and are an essential part of the neurodevelopmental diagnostic pathway MDT.
Main duties of the job
The main role in this part of the job is to provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy for children living in Wandsworth who have aversive/restrictive eating behaviour related to sensory or behavioural feeding difficulties, or Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). The team supports children, their families and the wider educational community to support and develop safe eating behaviours through multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention.
One day a week, the post holder will provide highly specialist clinical psychology service to children and young people seen within the neurodevelopmental assessment pathways at St George’s Hospital. This will involve undertaking screening assessments, specialist psychological assessment, in particular the ADI-R (or equivalent) and the ADOS. They will work as part of a wider team and are an essential part of the neurodevelopmental diagnostic pathway MDT.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. Working within the Autism Diagnostic Pathway, to provide highly specialist neurodevelopmental, cognitive and psychological assessments of CYP based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and members of the MDT or other multiagency professionals involved in the patient’s care.
To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about the psychological aspects of treatment options offered taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group, (including cultural factors) as well as ensuring that psychological input is in line with and supports the patient’s best medical interest.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment options and discharge planning, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
7. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals involved in the patient’s care.
8. To ensure that all members of the Autism assessment MDT have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of patients of the service, through the provision of advice, consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management as appropriate for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
11. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC
- Psychology qualification
- ADI (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- ADOS trained
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience working with children
- Experience working in MDT
Desirable criteria
- Experience completing ASD assessments
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Harrington Hill
- Job title
- Head of Children's Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500760118
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