Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to adults with learning disabilities and service providers and carers within the Community.  To provide specialist assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychological services colleagues and other non-professional carers.  To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.  To use research skills for audit, service development and research.  Contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychological services.

This is a Band 7/8a development/preceptorship post. The post holder will be able to progress from Band 7 to Band 8a once they demonstrate that they meet the competencies specified for Band 8a.

All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

Main duties of the job

• To hold a clinical workload as member of Psychological Services and the Specialist Learning Disability Services (SLDS).
• To provide specialist assessments of service users referred to the SLDS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of psychological information from a variety of sources.
• To be responsible for formulation and implementation of therapy or treatments based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems and employing methods of evidence based efficacy across the full range of care settings.
• To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate supervision and to provide supervision to assistant psychologists and other MDT staff’s psychological or psychotherapeutic work, as appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for implementing a range of therapy or psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups based on formulations and drawing on different explanatory psychological models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to colleagues in the team, carers from the public/private and voluntary sector and families.
• To be a core member of the Specialist Learning Disability Service multi-disciplinary Clinical Team.

See job description and person specification for further details.