Clinical Psychologist 7/8a Kettering

Meeveem Limited; Kettering; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is seeking a psychologist to join the Children’s Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities on a fixed-term 9-month maternity cover. You will carry out assessments, formulations and interventions for children and young people with a range of psychological needs, working within a multi-disciplinary team to embed psychological principles.

role includes supervision opportunities, training others, and involvement in audits/research; NHS values

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology.
• Experience with a wide range of client groups across the life course.
• Knowledge of LD legislation and key documents.

Responsibilities

• Provide complex assessments and formulations including neurodevelopmental assessments.
• Deliver direct or indirect interventions based on psychological formulations.
• Train and support care providers, parents and carers.
• Supervise trainees/assistants where appropriate.
• Support audits and research initiatives.
• Develop skills in positive behaviour support and train others in this approach.
• Be an integral member of the MDT embedding psychological principles.
• Explore service development improvements within the team.

Skills

Psychological therapies

Assessments

Formulations

Communication skills

MDT teamwork

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our Children's Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities. This position is for a fixed term, 9 months maternity cover. We are a passionate, multi-disciplinary team who puts service users and their families at the forefront in everything we do. You would be providing assessments, formulations and interventions to service users and their families/ support systems. You would be working with children and young people presenting with a wide range of psychological distress and difficulties including people with autism, ADHD, attachment issues, trauma, loss, mental health issues, behaviour which challenges.

We have an excellent reputation for being a compassionate service who leads in trauma informed practice. We are a welcoming and inclusive psychological service and MDT, who work together to ensure the services we provide are of high quality. Reflective practice is essential in our work and we provide excellent quality supervision, peer supervision, journal clubs and reflective practice sessions to ensure we are working at the high standard that service users deserve.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include:

• Providing complex assessments and formulations, including some neurodevelopmental assessments and formulations.
• Providing direct or indirect interventions based on psychological formulations and models.
• Providing training and indirect work with care providers/ carers/ parents.
• Possibility of supervising trainees/ assistants depending on experience
• Opportunities for audits and research
• Developing skills in positive behaviour support and being involved in training others in this approach.
• Opportunity for CPD in whatever area of interest you have and exploring how to incorporate this into working with people with learning disabilities.
• Becoming an integral member of the MDT, ensuring psychological principles are embedded in the teams.
• Exploring opportunities for improving service development within the service

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Details

Date posted: 08 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £49,387 to £64,750 a year pa, pro rata

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 9 months

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number: 270-TH332-MH

Job locations: St Mary's Hospital, 77 London Road, Kettering, NN15 7PW, United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading.

Main responsibilities:

• Supporting children and young people who are experiencing psychological distress.
• Working with their families and support systems.
• Providing assessments, formulations and interventions to children, young people and their support systems.
• Working in a MDT to bring a psychological perspective and supporting MDT colleagues in their work
• Conducting neurodevelopmental assessments, providing assessments, formulations and interventions for people with neurodiversity.
• Attending supervision, peer supervision, journal clubs, reflective practice, professional network meetings.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Knowledge of legislation and key documents in relation to the LD population

Desirable

• Experience of supervising of others or providing consultation to others
• Experience for working with people with LD

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies with people with LD
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessments, formulations and interventions
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team based working environment as well as with service users and their families/carers

Desirable

• Experience and ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Skills in developing systemic formulations around the person with LD

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details

Employer name: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address: St Mary's Hospital, 77 London Road, Kettering, NN15 7PW, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant in LD Psychology Service

Dr Helen Fletcher

[e-mail]

07917396656