Job summary
The aim of this role is to provide a psychology and behaviour support service to adults with a Learning Disability, as a part of the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team. This will include providing psychological assessment, formulation and direct and indirect interventions directly and indirectly to service users, their families and wider systems.
The post holder will also provide teaching, training, consultation and supervision to the wider team, to facilitate a psychologically informed approach to service users and contribute to the ongoing training and development strategy.
The post holder will supervise trainee and assistant psychologists, and may supervise psychological aspects of MDT working. The post holder will engage in audit, policy and service development and research.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
Clinical:
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for people referred to the service, including assessing people's eligibility for a learning disability service. The psychologist will be expected to deliver services 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, the MDT and others involved in the client's care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological, mental health or behavioral problems, including autistic spectrum disorders, 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.
- To carry out Functional Analysis and formulate Positive Behaviour Support plans alongside offering systemic work with care homes and families.
About us
benefits of working for CNWL
-Annual leave
-Flexible/agile working opportunity
-Staff development and training
-Robust local and Trust induction
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- Access to one of the most generous pension schemes in the UK
- Buy a new bicycle through our Cycle to Work scheme
- Drive a new car through our lease car scheme and salary sacrifice scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for our eligible staff
- health and well-being initiatives
- well being matters
- Talking therapies
Job description
Job responsibilities
Contributing to the development of training packages for non-clinical staff and families.
Preparing and delivering appropriate therapeutic group interventions
Liaising with members of the MDT and external professionals involved in the care of adult people with learning disability
Assessing psychological needs of adult people through clinical semi-structured or structured interviews as well as psychometric testing available.
Supervising Assistant Psychologists as service needs require
Providing tailored individual interventions to adult people when required
Qualifications and Experience required-
Registered and accredited with Health & Care Profession Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
Postgraduate clinical qualification in Psychology.
Experience working with adult people with Learning disability and autism and ages 18 and above
Demonstrate knowledge and ability to promote the dignity and individuality of people with learning disability by encouraging effective communication, making choices and reducing support needs.
Develop positive professional relationships with people, parents, families and colleagues.
Promote attitudes that value people with Special Educational Needs as individuals with a right to be treated with respect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Contributing to the development of training packages for non-clinical staff and families.
Preparing and delivering appropriate therapeutic group interventions
Liaising with members of the MDT and external professionals involved in the care of adult people with learning disability
Assessing psychological needs of adult people through clinical semi-structured or structured interviews as well as psychometric testing available.
Supervising Assistant Psychologists as service needs require
Providing tailored individual interventions to adult people when required
Qualifications and Experience required-
Registered and accredited with Health & Care Profession Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
Postgraduate clinical qualification in Psychology.
Experience working with adult people with Learning disability and autism and ages 18 and above
Demonstrate knowledge and ability to promote the dignity and individuality of people with learning disability by encouraging effective communication, making choices and reducing support needs.
Develop positive professional relationships with people, parents, families and colleagues.
Promote attitudes that value people with Special Educational Needs as individuals with a right to be treated with respect.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Doctoral (or equivalent) level training in Clinical/ Counselling 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.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Pre or post-qualification training in a relevant area, such as systemic psychotherapy or Positive Behaviour Support
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of psychometric assessment/ assessment of learning disability.
- Experience of Positive Behaviour Support and functional assessment.
- 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.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through experience of working in Learning Disability services, across a range of abilities, including service users presenting with mental health problems, autistic spectrum disorders, and other challenging behaviours.
- Understanding and experience of adapting communication and therapeutic approaches to work with people with learning disabilities.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical/ counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of work as a psychologist in community settings.
- Experience of working with interpreters.
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Car driver and access to use of a car.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Doctoral (or equivalent) level training in Clinical/ Counselling 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.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Pre or post-qualification training in a relevant area, such as systemic psychotherapy or Positive Behaviour Support
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of psychometric assessment/ assessment of learning disability.
- Experience of Positive Behaviour Support and functional assessment.
- 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.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through experience of working in Learning Disability services, across a range of abilities, including service users presenting with mental health problems, autistic spectrum disorders, and other challenging behaviours.
- Understanding and experience of adapting communication and therapeutic approaches to work with people with learning disabilities.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical/ counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of work as a psychologist in community settings.
- Experience of working with interpreters.
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Car driver and access to use of a car.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
