Job summary
The Jersey Adult Autism Service (JAAS) provides specialist psychological assessment, intervention, and consultation for autistic adults across the island. We work closely with individuals, families, carers, partner agencies, and mainstream services to ensure autistic adults can access safe, equitable, and effective support.
We are now seeking a highly skilled and motivated Clinical Psychologist to join our expanding and autism in formed multidisciplinary team.
As a Clinical Psychologist within JAAS, you will ensure the systematic delivery of a high quality specialist psychology service for autistic adults with complex or highly complex needs. You will deliver advanced assessments, formulate complex presentations, and provide evidence based psychological interventions tailored to autistic individuals.
You will play a central role in shaping autism in formed practice across the system, develop pathways that improve access to mainstream services, and provide leadership within our psychology provision.
About You
We are looking for someone who is passionate about improving outcomes for autistic adults and confident working with complex presentations. You will bring advanced clinical skills, a strong understanding of autism in formed models, and the ability to operate autonomously while contributing meaningfully to a dynamic MDT.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
Deliver highly specialised autism assessments, including ASC diagnostic assessments (e.g., ADOS2, ADIR, DISCO).
Conduct comprehensive psychological, cognitive, and risk assessments, including those relating to suicidality, selfharm, harm to others, and safeguarding.
Formulate and implement evidencebased, autisminformed interventions for adults with cooccurring mental health difficulties, trauma, emotional distress, or behaviours that challenge.
Provide psychological leadership within the MDT and coordinate intervention pathways with other disciplines.
Offer consultation, training, and reflective practice to professionals across services.
Provide clinical supervision to qualified clinicians, trainees, and assistants.
Lead or contribute to research, audit, quality improvement, and service evaluation.
Maintain high standards of clinical governance, recordkeeping, and adherence to HCPC and GoJ professional standards.
Develop and refine pathways to ensure accessible, equitable care for autistic adults across health, housing, employment, justice, and community systems.
About us
At Health and Care Jersey, were not just delivering healthcare - were shaping the future of health and wellbeing for over 100,000 Islanders and visitors. Our dedicated team of over 2,000 professionals provides essential care across 30+ diverse departments, offering a wide range of specialist services from acute and emergency care to community and preventative health initiatives.With state-of-the-art facilities like the brand-new Enid Quenault Health and Wellbeing Centre and exciting plans to modernise our healthcare infrastructure, this is a great time to join us. Whether you're providing frontline patient care, supporting health initiatives in the community, or contributing to vital mental health and social services, your work will make a meaningful impact on people's lives every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to users,
relatives, carers and all appropriate specialist services for people with learning disabilities in
Jersey.
This will involve providing highly specialised assessments, formulations, and
interventions to vulnerable adults over the age of 18 years who have a Learning Disability and/or
Autism Spectrum Condition with complex / highly complex needs and presentations.
To liaise
with other specialist psychologists on island and provide psychology leadership within the
Learning Disability Service / Jersey Adult Autism Service.
To contribute to training and
consultation which assists the development of high- quality services for people with learning
disabilities / autism with the key aim of enabling access for clients with a learning disability /
autism to mainstream services, health care, housing, employment and the criminal justice
system.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to users,
relatives, carers and all appropriate specialist services for people with learning disabilities in
Jersey.
This will involve providing highly specialised assessments, formulations, and
interventions to vulnerable adults over the age of 18 years who have a Learning Disability and/or
Autism Spectrum Condition with complex / highly complex needs and presentations.
To liaise
with other specialist psychologists on island and provide psychology leadership within the
Learning Disability Service / Jersey Adult Autism Service.
To contribute to training and
consultation which assists the development of high- quality services for people with learning
disabilities / autism with the key aim of enabling access for clients with a learning disability /
autism to mainstream services, health care, housing, employment and the criminal justice
system.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or equivalent, including
- specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and
- neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Appropriate registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional
- specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Formal training in the provision of diagnostic assessment for Autism
- Spectrum Conditions.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical
- severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care/services.
- Experience of project management.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of working within safeguarding guidance with vulnerable adults.
Desirable
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of
- care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural
- contexts.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural
- contexts.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural
- contexts.
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or equivalent, including
- specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and
- neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Appropriate registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional
- specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Formal training in the provision of diagnostic assessment for Autism
- Spectrum Conditions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or equivalent, including
- specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and
- neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Appropriate registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional
- specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Formal training in the provision of diagnostic assessment for Autism
- Spectrum Conditions.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical
- severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care/services.
- Experience of project management.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of working within safeguarding guidance with vulnerable adults.
Desirable
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of
- care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural
- contexts.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural
- contexts.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural
- contexts.
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or equivalent, including
- specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and
- neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Appropriate registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional
- specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Formal training in the provision of diagnostic assessment for Autism
- Spectrum Conditions.
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).