Clinical Associate in Psychology

Knowledge and Skills Essential

• Able assess limits of professional boundaries and capacity and understand when to seek appropriate supervision/advice on practice and whom to refer to so as to ensure best care
• To be able to assess and formulate someone's experiences drawing on a range of psychological models and theory
• Work cross-culturally and/or in different languages
• Understand the principles of clinical supervision using them to provide a safe and supportive environment to reflect, review and discuss personal and professional responses to work
• Able to correctly handle confidential information and knowing how and when to share this information for appropriate professional purposes and only with appropriate individuals, and as necessary with appropriately gained consent
  

Desirable

• Experience of working closely experts-byexperience, local communities, Community and Voluntary and Social Enterprises, to coproduce and co-develop services
• Awareness of diversity of cultural norms across the borough, and being able to respond to this appropriately