Clinical Psychologist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health is seeking a dedicated Clinical Psychologist to join their Autism and Learning Disabilities Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with children and young people facing complex mental health challenges, providing specialized assessments and interventions. You will be part of a supportive, innovative team committed to improving the lives of those with neurodevelopmental needs. The role emphasizes collaboration, research, and the application of evidence-informed practices, ensuring a meaningful impact on the community. Join us in making a difference in mental health care for young individuals and their families.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and families with neurodevelopmental difficulties.
• Ability to manage complexity and risk in service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and interventions for children with disabilities.
• Supervise assistant psychologists and manage their workload.

Skills

Clinical experience with children

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Safeguarding and risk management

Equality, diversity, and inclusion awareness

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Tools

ADOS

ADI-R/3di

Job description

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Are you passionate about working with children and young people with complex mental health and neurodevelopmental needs? Are you committed to reflective and anti-discriminatory practice? Do you want to be part of an innovative, supportive, and engaging team?

The Autism and Learning Disabilities Team is seeking a highly motivated and committed Clinical Psychologist with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The post-holder will provide their psychological expertise to multi-disciplinary clinical assessments, interventions, and reviews of service effectiveness. Interventions that may be provided include research- and evidence-informed approaches that make a difference for the children, young people, and families we work with.

This is an exciting time to be joining the service in terms of the strategic aims in the NHS Long Term Plan to ensure that all people with a learning disability, autism, or both can live happier, healthier, and longer lives.

This is a fixed-term role for 10 months.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be expected to offer highly specialised assessments and interventions with children and young people with disabilities and their parents/carers, within a multidisciplinary context. For this role, there is also a particular emphasis on diagnostic assessment for young people where there are concerns about social communication and interaction as well as their mental health. Relatedly, the post-holder will also support the management of the autism assessment waiting list and utilise their research skills to carry out audits and service evaluations relevant to the service.

Professional supervision is provided by the discipline and the post-holder will also be responsible for clinically supervising and managing the workload of assistant psychologists and other more junior members of staff within the service.

The team works with children and young people up to the age of 25 and has a long-standing national and international reputation for the application of psychodynamic psychotherapies and other evidence-informed approaches to meet the mental health needs of this client group. We are keen to develop our offer further and to support staff to develop innovative clinical practice in assessment and treatment, including group work as appropriate.

About us

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people, and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health.

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust, we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification

Shortlisting Criteria

• Evidence of clinical experience of working with children and families with neurodevelopmental difficulties.
• A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery.
• Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders.
• High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management.
• Demonstrate equality, diversity, and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues.
• A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face.
• Ability to work effectively within a team.
• Experience in the use of ADOS and ADI-R/3di.
• Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement.

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.

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

£54,320 to £60,981 a year PA inclusive of HCAS pro rata