Child Psychologist - Harley Street (including online work)

Harley Therapy ,
London, Greater London
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Company Description Harley Therapy was founded in 2006, with the aim of connecting the public with experienced, dedicated practitioners driven to alleviate emotional difficulties and promote mental health. Our mission is to change people's lives for the better through psychological knowledge and talking therapies. Job Description An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-employed, child psychologist to work in the private sector to provide psychological assessment and treatment to children, and support for their families and carers. Presenting issues will include behavioural and learning difficulties, and ASD. Harley Therapy's vision and focus is on facilitating therapeutic practice. Harley Therapy achieves this by focusing on marketing/advertising, generating new referrals, providing administration support for new and existing clients and securing therapy rooms in desirable locations to enable you to do what you are best at - offering psychological therapy. As a consultant therapist, you are solely responsible for your practice and management of your caseload and as a qualified and competent practitioner you control and operate your practice in the best interests of your clients. You remain accountable for your clients; you must be an up-to-date member of an appropriate professional body and practising within their guidelines and codes; in receipt of regular supervision as required by that body, and appropriately insured. Qualifications Clients who contact Harley Therapy typically benefit from seeing and referring to practitioners with the following therapeutic and clinical skills: * You are a fully qualified and registered with the HCPC or BPS. * You have at least 5 years of clinical work offering psychological assessment and therapy to children and ideally providing support to their families/carers, including within the NHS. * You have experience of working with a wide range of clinical presenting difficulties of varying severity. * You are competent in assessing and treating severe psychological disorders. * You are able to engage with children who present with anger issues, sexual abuse issues, eating disorders and additive/impulsive behaviours, emotional, interpersonal and behavioural difficulties. * You have experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological care and treatment. * You are able to liaise comprehensively with external agencies including schools and local authorities. * You can formulate plans for psychological treatment and/or management of a client's presenting difficulties. Your formulations are grounded in theoretical and therapeutic models. You have the ability to reformulate and modify treatment options through continual engagement and assessment. * You are able to set out and hold boundaries with clients including adhering to regular weekly sessions and a cancellation policy. * You should see the clinical importance and value of being loyal, hard working and committed to clients and to your professional development. * Although you have full autonomy of your clinical practice, you will work in a manner that presents both you and the group professionally at all times, and preserves Harley Therapy's reputation. Benefits: * You will benefit from being aligned with a well-known organisation committed to the profession. * You will gain from Harley Therapy's wealth of experience in the practice of psychology and psychotherapy in the private sector. * You will benefit from the in-house marketing, PR and advertising initiatives driven by Harley Therapy. * Harley Therapy strives to provide suitable client referrals and an appropriate clinical caseload in accordance to your hours of work and preferred ways of working. * You will benefit from an administrative 7days a week, ensuring that new referrals can be made and existing clients can leave a message. * As an independent and qualified practitioner, you will work to your own therapeutic style and with your own supervision. The aim is to allow you to use your professional training and focus on what you believe is therapeutically best for your client in terms of treatment length, frequency and treatment modality. Additionally, by choosing your own supervision this enable you to take control over your own professional development. * Harley Therapy sees the importance of CPD. In the last 12 months two CPD workshops have been provided. FEEDBACK FROM DR MARK FLYNN, (Clinical Psychologist), on working at HARLEY THERAPY (2012-current): "Following nearly 15 years' working as a NHS Psychologist across a wide range of posts and settings, I applied to join Harley Therapy (HT) after observing its excellent reputation and online pre-eminence among London-based private psychotherapy services and following strong recommendations by some close NHS colleagues who were already working at HT. Working at HT has allowed for a high degree of autonomy where clinical decision-making and therapeutic approach are concerned, and considerable f

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