Job overview

Are you a passionate Clinical Psychologist with a keen interest in neurodevelopmental conditions? Do you thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment where innovation and compassion go hand in hand?

Our service is evolving in line with a new neurodevelopmental pathway — and you’ll be at the heart of shaping its future. Whether it’s refining pathways, co-production with service users, or contributing to our 2 year quality improvement initiative, your voice will matter. 

As a Clinical Psychologist within the Adult Diagnostic Service at Dorset HealthCare you will be joining a team transforming lives through expert assessment and collaborative working.

You will be solely accountable for the direct delivery of psychological services to neurodivergent clients, providing highly specialised assessment and formulation, using a range of assessment materials.

Engaging clients, their families and carers, you will be a strong empathic communicator using highly complex and sensitive information where there are often barriers to understanding and acceptance.

As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, committed to equity, inclusion, and continuous learning you will provide specialised advice to other professionals, undertaking clinically relevant research, audit evaluation and supervision.

This is a part time position of 18.75 hrs negotiable up to 30 hours per week

Flexible working across Monday – Friday, requirement to include Tuesdays.

Main duties of the job

·  Able to plan and prioritise patient workload whilst coordinating with existing teams and other agencies.

·         Primarily based from our Poole office, driving across the county, you will be working at different locations as needed, completing online or in person assessments and undertaking regular clinics with the flexibility of some remote working.

·         Conduct high quality NICE compliant diagnostic assessments and provide psychological formulations based on a range of theoretical perspectives and evidence-based interventions contributing to diagnostic decision making.

• Collaborate with professionals across health, education, and social care including Psychiatrists, GPs, Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers, planning and chairing multi-disciplinary/multi-agency professional and family meetings.
• Supervision, teaching and training of other healthcare professionals and supporting the research and development activities of Assistants and Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

• Contribute to service development, audit, evaluation and quality improvement initiatives.
• Utilise RiO care record system in accordance with Trust policy.
• Implement policies and participate in policy and service changes.

·         A full valid UK driving license is essential.

Working for our organisation

At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here – it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2019. It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

 Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do