Lead Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

*Relocation package available*

If you are passionate about working with children and young people with a Learning Disability who are experiencing poor mental health or emotional dysregulation, we would love to hear from you. We are a highly experienced team of community based clinicians, who love our work, love our team and the families we work with.

You'll be visiting young people and families in a variety of settings offering multi disciplinary assessment and interventions as part of agreed care pathways and interventions. you'll have the opportunity to be involved in our various research and audit projects, participate in team learning events, training as required and support service developments.

We'll offer you robust clinical supervision including the opportunity to work with other professionals and share learning, appraisal and CPD for Clinical Psychology.  We have regular Multi-discplanry team meeting and their are regular psychology meetings, and we are have a super supportive team culture of compassion and respect.

In return, you'll need to bring experience from a similar roles, lots of commitment, and enthusiasm, and of course, a sense of humour.

For the right person we can offer full time or 30 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

As the CAMHS/LD lead clinical psychologist  you will be responsible for completing relevant assessments, facilitate  multi-disciplinary formulations and offer evidence based interventions for children with moderate to severe learning disability.

You will be required to work autonomously and respond to the needs of an individual caseload; from initial assessment to discharge.

You are expected to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the service; providing specialist skills and knowledge within the four quadrants of the IThrive model.

You will be liaising and providing advice, information and consultation to colleagues and other agencies as well as undertaking service governance activity, including research and audit as appropriate.

The role will include actively participating in the senior leadership team within the CAMHS-LD team.

You will be expected to participate in clinical governance and service development within the CAMHS/LD Team, in partnership with professional specialists and other clinical teams.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.