Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disabilities
- Grade
- Band 7/8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 270-TG115-MH
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newland House
- Town
- Northampton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £60,504 pa, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Band 7/8a
Job overview
The Community Team for People with a Learning Disability is seeking to recruit a Clinical Psychologist (0.2wte). The role is to provide a qualified clinical psychology service to clients of the specialty; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams’ policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Main duties of the job
Joining this service/Trust would include:
- Regular supervision with the Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Opportunities to have Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement via University of Leicester/ Oxford
- Opportunities for further training and development based on professional and service needs
- The ability to help shape the service and psychological provisions
- Ability to attend special interest groups, training days and events
- Attendance to development sessions facilitated for the team on a regular basis
- Regular opportunities to meet as a Psychology team within the service
- Joining a team that is willing to consider your interests and development needs and help you reach your potential
- Opportunities to meet with the Trust Psychology network monthly for CPD
- Opportunities to attend training on leadership and wellbeing within the Trust
Working for our organisation
The CCTPLD works with children who have a learning disability with additional health needs, where they cannot access mainstream services. This might include mental health difficulties, behaviour which challenges, offending behaviour, emotional regulation difficulties, interpersonal difficulties and physical health complications that require additional support. The CCTPLD consists of Clinical Psychologists, Community Learning Disability Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Clinical Assistants.
Newly-qualified Clinical Psychologists are expected to work through a period of Preceptorship during the first few years of qualification. During the Preceptorship period, the Preceptee would be expected to satisfy the developmental criteria specified in the Trust’s Psychology Preceptorship Scheme before progressing to a substantive 8a post.
We have a culture of compassion and acceptance within the service. we value everyone's opinion and experiences.
We are committed to ensuring people are treated equally and fairly whether at work, during care or out in the community. Our Occupational Health and Wellbeing team support our staff through many different channels. Whether you have a physical or emotional issue or want to take positive steps to improve your fitness, this team can help you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please contact Dr Helen Fletcher (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead Psychologist for LD service) [email protected]
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS.
- • Registration with the Health Care Professions Council.
- • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
- • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- • Full clean driving license.
Desirable criteria
- • Skills in adapting information for people with Learning Disabilities, including making resources easy-read.
- • Training or experience in the supervision assistant psychologists.
- • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- • Skills in using neuropsychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- • Skills in psychologically formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological difficulties including developmental background, long term personality adaptations, interpersonal patterns of relating, service and diagnostic issues. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- • Skills in implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- • Ability to evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- • Skills in undertaking risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- • Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- • Skills in providing specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
Desirable criteria
- • Skills in adapting information for people with Learning Disabilities, including making resources easy-read.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Helen Fletcher
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917396656
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