Job summary
Do you want to make a difference in the lives of adults with intellectual disabilities living in Croydon and promote the best outcomes possible? We are looking for a passionate clinical psychologist, ready to take their leadership skills to the next level, as an exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time permanent position in the Croydon Community Learning Disabilities Team.
The successful candidate will have a strong skillset working with people with intellectual disabilities and neurodevelopmental conditions, trauma histories, and mental-health issues, and will be highly experienced in working within a Positive Behaviour Support model. The facilitation of consultation, teaching and training, is an integral part of the role.
The successful applicant will join a highly valued Psychology service as part of the multidisciplinary team for adults with intellectual disabilities, based in the heart of Croydon. We provide a psychological service to adults with intellectual disabilities with mental health needs, and/or behaviours that challenge.
Continuing Professional Development is actively supported and clinicians are encouraged to develop areas of special interest and contribute to service innovation. We have close links with the Psychology Doctorate Training Course at Salomons and Surrey University and regularly support a number of trainee placements.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a high specialist clinical psychology service within the Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
- To take a lead and coordinate some of the multidisciplinary pathways in the CLDT
- supervise and support clinical psychological assessment and intervention provided by other psychologists, including recently qualified psychologists, behaviour specialist practitioners, assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical practice within a current caseload.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and clinical research.
- In agreement with the Operational Clinical Lead for Learning Disabilities and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, to propose and implement policy and service changes for the CLDT, Trust and other local partner agencies.
About us
Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough's only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.
Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.
Our experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud.
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Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- oDoctorate training in clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including specifically working with adults with Intellectual Disabilities, formulation , clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- oRegistered with the HCPC
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more other additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to learning disability services (e.g. systemic, PBS...)
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Essential
- oDoctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including specifically working with adults with intellectual disabilities, formulation, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- oHighly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for adults with intellectual disabilities with complex needs (Autism, trauma, mental health needs...)
- oKnowledge of legislation, policy and professional guidance relevant to Learning disability services and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management.
- oEvidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role.
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of positive behaviour support.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- oExperience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with people with intellectual disabilities presenting with a range of clinical needs.
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive situations.
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and interventions both professionally and within the context of multidisciplinary care planning.
- oExperience of providing teaching, training and professional /clinical supervision.
- oExperience of undertaking research, service evaluation and audit and dissemination of findings.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multicultural framework
- experience of providing clinical supervision
skills and abilities
Essential
- oWell-developed communication skills to share highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, and their support networks.
- oSkills in providing consultation and training to other professional and non-professional groups.
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- oDoctorate training in clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including specifically working with adults with Intellectual Disabilities, formulation , clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- oRegistered with the HCPC
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more other additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to learning disability services (e.g. systemic, PBS...)
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Essential
- oDoctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including specifically working with adults with intellectual disabilities, formulation, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- oHighly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for adults with intellectual disabilities with complex needs (Autism, trauma, mental health needs...)
- oKnowledge of legislation, policy and professional guidance relevant to Learning disability services and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management.
- oEvidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role.
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of positive behaviour support.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- oExperience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with people with intellectual disabilities presenting with a range of clinical needs.
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive situations.
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and interventions both professionally and within the context of multidisciplinary care planning.
- oExperience of providing teaching, training and professional /clinical supervision.
- oExperience of undertaking research, service evaluation and audit and dissemination of findings.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multicultural framework
- experience of providing clinical supervision
skills and abilities
Essential
- oWell-developed communication skills to share highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, and their support networks.
- oSkills in providing consultation and training to other professional and non-professional groups.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
