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Job overview

This post offers an exciting opportunity for a dynamic senior psychologist within the Harrogate & District Community Learning Disability Team, part of the wider North Yorkshire, York & Selby Learning Disability network. The service consists of a supportive multidisciplinary team based at Alexander House, Knaresborough. The team offers specialist health services to adult service users who live with a learning disability, their families, and carers, whilst also working closely with statutory agencies/ care providers.

We are looking to appoint a Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is passionate about working with people with a learning disability.

The post offers many exciting developmental and creative opportunities.

The post holder will have a key role in providing psychological assessments, formulations, and interventions to service users, their families, carers, and staff teams. This may be through direct therapeutic support using various adapted psychological approaches or indirect work with a service user’s support system using psychologically informed thinking.

An added element to this role is offering neuropsychological assessments to service users, alongside reflective practice, consultation, and supervision. An interest in working with Trauma Informed Care approaches would be welcomed.

Main duties of the job

Applicants should ideally have experience in working within Learning Disability services and show strong patient-centred values. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, motivated, and show a commitment to delivering excellent health care and evidence-based practice. You will be working alongside a supportive team and opportunities to develop special interests, and working collaboratively with the wider MDT.

In addition, the post holder will have a valued role in the team’s collective leadership group, alongside opportunities for research and service development. Our service has strong links with the Doctoral Clinical and Counselling Psychology Programmes at Teesside, Hull, and Leeds Universities. The post holder will be involved in offering trainee placements and University teaching. There are excellent opportunities for peer support/ supervision, CPD, training, research, and audit within the wider trust and psychological professions network.

We are happy to discuss flexible working. We are also very keen to support practitioners obtain further professional training (e.g., EMDR; Flash EMDR; CFT; CBT, Systemic Family Therapy, etc). You will be working in an area of natural beauty across North Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Dales. Our trust is also invested in staff wellbeing opportunities, which is very much supported by the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this, we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academy’s Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.

Applicants must ensure that prior to applying they have agreement from their current line manager that they can be released on a secondment basis. In the event that permanent funding is secured for this post the successful applicant will be confirmed in post on a permanent basis.