Band 8a Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join our team to lead on the assessment, diagnosis, advice and intervention with children and young people being assessed for neuro-developmental conditions and to lead on the facilitation of on-going collaboration between CAMHS and community paediatrics.

The successful applicant will be based within our CAMHS services, but provide clinical input and assessment withing the ND pathway across both CAMHs and community paediatric services.

This post is for 37.5 hours per week, working Monday-Friday. We work flexibly in accordance with the LPT Flexible Working policy to meet the needs of the service. We offer hybrid working, with face to face clinical contact in a clinic setting. Please note that this role requires a full driving licence and access to a car during working hours.

Contact Details: Sarah Baines, Sarah.baines10@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

The job purpose will be to:

To provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and advice on intervention approaches consistent with professional standards to children and young people with Neurodevelopmental Conditions. The role will include providing specialist psychological, including diagnostic assessments, reports, development of formulations, and implementation of psychological interventions within the scientist-practitioner framework.

To draw upon an extensive knowledge of psychological theory in order to interpret complex information and communicate this to others in an accessible way. To work with others including multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues, and provision of specialist advice and consultancy as required.

You will work with the Senior Educational Psychologist to creatively operationalise the LPTs strategic vision for a Neurodiversity team through service processes including assessment, awareness raising, training, robust evaluation measures, ensuring a co-ordinated response across the LPT and with other relevant settings such as schools.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

County Hall

Penn Lloyd Building

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

County Hall

Penn Lloyd Building

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 8TB

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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