Clinical Psychologist - B8a

Job overview

Learning Disability and Autism Directorate – Band 8a Senior Applied Psychologist working within South Warwickshire Community Learning Disability Team.

This is a 30 hour a week substantive post.

• Would you like to work in a service where Psychologists are highly valued?
• Do you want a role that is varied and with excellent team working?
• Are you looking for a job that can give you a diverse range of opportunities to learn and develop?
• Would you like to be offered excellent support and supervision?

We are looking to employ a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our well-established community learning disability team in South Warwickshire. The psychological services team sits within the wider multidisciplinary team and includes Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, as well as an Art Therapists. There is strong multi-disciplinary working within the service, and the contribution of psychological services staff is highly valued. The successful applicant will receive excellent support and regular, good quality supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development. We have well-established links with the Coventry and Warwick Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, providing core placements, teaching sessions and supervising doctoral research projects. We are also developing further research links with Warwick University and there will be a variety of opportunities to maintain and develop your research skills.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide input to this Community Learning Disability Team in the form of specialist assessments and psychological interventions, team formulation, consultation, training and supervision of other qualified staff. Clinical work will often involve working with the wider system around a client through supporting families, carers and other agencies in their psychological understanding. We also offer systemic and consultancy working in the form of group work and specialist team work.

This community post will require travel across the Trust so car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport arrangements will be required to enable you to undertake the job. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS Check.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, using complex psychological data gained from a variety of sources.

• To ensure the systematic provision of psychological services, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately.

• To communicate assessment results, formulations, outcome data, and other complex and sensitive information orally and in written form in order to support the work of multidisciplinary colleagues.

• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals and staff contributing to the formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of clients, both within and outside the Trust.

• To contribute to the development of services, reviewing service outcomes, designing and participating in audit, research and clinical governance initiatives, and working cooperatively with colleagues to achieve service goals and maximise service effectiveness. This will involve communication with a wide range of clinical and managerial colleagues, within and outside the Trust.

• To provide supervision to less senior qualified psychology staff, assistant psychologists, volunteers and other colleagues.

• To provide clinical placements to doctoral level trainee psychologists.