Band 7/8a Clinical Psychologist Preceptorship - Autism Assessment

Job overview

The Autism Assessment Team is seeking a creative and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join the Team.  We welcome applications from those at band 7 as this is a preceptorship role with scope to progress to 8a over time.    We are a multi-disciplinary team comprised of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy.

The team is part of the Children and Young People’s Division of the Trust and offers specialist assessment and post diagnostic support to young people up to the age of 25 who have co-occurring mental health difficulties. All Team members are offered training in specialist assessments as well as regular CPD events to enhance clinical practice.

There are lots of elements to this post that are more than assessment! The post holder will provide specialist assessment alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues, offer consultation and training to colleagues across the mental health services, develop and deliver post diagnostic input for families and young people and ensure the needs of neurodiverse people are promoted and understood across all of our services. In addition, the post holder will have the opportunity to work with a small caseload of clients referred to one of our core community teams to consolidate and develop psychological therapy skills.

Main duties of the job

• Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and post diagnostic input to clients and their families as well as offering indirect clinical services such as advice and consultation to colleagues and other professionals.
• Involvement in service planning and development, this will include identifying need and participating in development plan processes.
• Contribute to the development of the Team offer.
• Staff support and supervision, and facilitation of client related work undertaken by other team members.
• Staff training.
• Applied research and development related to the needs of the client served and the Children and Young People’s DIvision.
• Participation in Clinical Governance activities including Continuing Professional Development.
• Participation in the development of operational policy, service planning and service evaluation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.