Clinical Lead Clinical Psychologist

Whittington NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established NHS organization is seeking a dynamic Clinical Psychologist to lead a dedicated team in providing psychological services for children with neurodevelopmental needs. This role involves offering clinical supervision, conducting assessments, and developing innovative strategies to support young patients and their families. The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring that all staff are representative of the communities they serve. If you are passionate about making a difference in children's mental health and enjoy working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Psychology required.
• Experience with children and families with complex safeguarding issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychology services for children with additional needs.
• Lead and supervise a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Assessment of autism

Clinical supervision

Intervention for children with emotional difficulties

Leadership and line management

Education

Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology

Relevant professional registration (HPC)

Additional training in child mental health

Job description

Covid-19 Vaccination

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers - North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword 'Whittington'

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and highly motivated clinical psychologist to join this well-established service in a leadership role. We are looking for an individual who is innovative and keen to work with the multidisciplinary team to support and develop services for young children with neurodevelopmental needs and their families.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will also be a source of psychological expertise for the team, providing dynamic & inspiring leadership. The post holder will provide clinical supervision, line management and guidance to our established highly skilled team, in addition to carrying out assessments and consultations.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for providing a clinical psychology service for children with additional needs who are under the care of the SCT. The post holder will be a clinical specialist within the area of autism as well as having specialist knowledge and experience in a wide range of contextual and clinical presentations relevant to the Early Year's population, including ADHD and developmental trauma. The clinical psychologist will provide psychological assessment and intervention and offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in Clinical psychology, as recognised by HCPC
• HPC or other relevant professional registration

Desirable criteria

• Additional training/qualifications in relevant child mental health assessment and treatment approaches
• ADOS trained

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to confidently and competently undertake assessment of autism and overlapping conditions
• Skills in assessment and intervention for children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, their families and carers
• Ability to offer sensitive and reflective supervision to qualified clinical psychologists, and junior staff/trainees.
• Skills in assessment of risk and safety-planning in relation to mental health and safeguarding issues.
• Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting clinic timetables, peer support, team dynamics, training and skills development

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and extensive experience of supervising trainee clinical psychologists other junior staff/professionals
• Experience of working with children and families with complex safeguarding issues
• Leadership and line management experience

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Clinical Psychologist (PDF, 203.0KB)
• Clinical Psychologist.pdf (PDF, 103.0KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
• Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)