Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Autism and Mental Health)

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join the Oxleas Adult Autism Service as we seek to appoint a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to be part of our adult diagnostic assessment pathway

This is a full time and permanent position.

The emphasis of the role will be to complete highly specialist diagnostic assessments of Autism Spectrum Disorder across the whole trust (covering Bromley, Bexley & Greenwich) for adults without learning disability.

The role will require a good knowledge of wide spectrum of mental health and psychiatric comorbidities and how these present in autistic people, but equally complete complex differential diagnosis between autism and other psychiatric conditions.

Main duties of the job

See attached job description for details of the main duties of this role and description of responsibilities.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

See attached Job description for details of main responsibilities and duties required for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC registered
• Clin Psych training or relevant qualification at doctorate level
• ADOS 2 Training and administration Experience with Adults

Desirable

• Additional studies, qualifications, formal knowledge in ASD

Experience

Essential

• Robust experience working with Adults with Autism and psychiatric disorders
• Experience of working within an Adult Diagnostic Service and conducting assessment independently

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of comorbidities and conducting differential diagnosis in Autism