Bank Clinical Psychologist Band 7

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Cheltenham is seeking a professional to provide psychological support to the Children’s Learning Disability Team. The role involves working with children and young people facing emotional and mental health challenges. The ideal candidate will demonstrate clinical leadership and possess the skills necessary for complex decision-making. Benefits include generous leave, training opportunities, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Free car parking

27 days leave plus bank holidays

Training and development opportunities

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in providing psychological support to children and families.
• Ability to work with children and young people with emotional and mental health difficulties.
• Competency in clinical assessment and management of clinical needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological support to the Children’s Learning Disability Team.
• Work with psychological assessments and interventions for children and young people.
• Provide clinical leadership and supervision within the team.

Skills

Psychological assessments

Clinical leadership

Complex clinical decision-making

Psychological support

Job description

Trust Overview

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined‑up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.

We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking “what matters to you”.

We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high‑quality teams in all areas of the Trust.

Our application process aims to understand each candidate’s knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description. It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI‑generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological support to the Children’s Learning Disability Team within CAMHS.
• Work with children and young people using a range of psychological assessments and interventions.
• Provide a range of highly specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0‑18 yrs) and their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties, as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities.
• Apply a range of profession‑specific models of clinical practice.
• Provide clinical leadership within the team, undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high‑risk clinical formulation and decision‑making, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with the Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multi‑agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.
• Provide specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for highly vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical risk and other complex/multi‑agency needs.
• Include clinical supervision of Band 6 team members and assistant psychologists.
• Demonstrate highly specialist skills and competency regarding complex clinical decision‑making, assessment, clinical formulation and management of clinical needs, including high clinical risk cases and/or where there are complex engagement issues.

Benefits

• Free car parking at many of our sites.
• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service.
• A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
• A multi‑professional preceptorship programme for all newly qualified nurses, nursing associates, internationally educated practitioners, allied health professionals and return to practice practitioners.
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours.
• Flexible, family‑friendly and agile working opportunities.
• Recognition and long service awards.
• Fast‑track physiotherapy.
• Our Wellbeing line.
• Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes, including Cycle to Work, car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.

For more information please see the attached “Additional Information for Applicants” document.