Clinical Psychologist (Development post)

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; In loco; GBP 43.000 - 53.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a confident and dynamic psychologist to join our busy neurodevelopmental assessment team across Newcastle and Gateshead. You will lead assessments, formulate complex presentations, and work within a multidisciplinary team including Principal Clinicians and Band 7 psychologists.

The role emphasizes supervision and development of trainee clinicians. The post offers opportunities for robust supervision, involvement in clinical training, and a supportive

Competenze

• Significant experience in neurodevelopmental assessment.
• Ability to lead assessment and formulation of complex presentations.
• Experience supervising assistant psychologists and trainees.

Mansioni

• Lead assessment and formulation of complex neurodevelopmental presentations for children and young people.
• Provide supervision to assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists; support multidisciplinary team.
• Collaborate with wider psychology network and other MDT members to ensure high-quality care.

Conoscenze

Neurodevelopmental assessment

Clinical psychology

Supervision

Formazione

HCPC registered clinical psychologist

Descrizione del lavoro

We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic and dynamic psychologist to join our busy multi-disciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment team working across Newcastle and Gateshead. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members alongside the Principal Clinical Psychologists, Band 7 psychologist, and Assistant Psychologists assessing children and young people. Professionally there are links with the wider network of psychologists who deliver psychology into our mental health and learning disability teams., You will be working in an environment where there is strong emphasis on teamwork and quality of clinical care. You will be responsible for leading assessment and formulation of complex presentations, exploring possible neurodevelopmental vulnerabilities and/or disorder as well as thoroughly considering wider factors and comorbidity. Our assessments provide thorough profiling of young people's strengths, needs and difficulties helping to ensure that they have access to the most appropriate understanding and supports as they develop and grow. We are looking for a clinician who has significant experience, knowledge and training in neurodevelopmental assessment skills and who is able to put the young person and their family at the centre of every assessment.

As a service, we value the role of robust, supportive and effective supervision and you will have access to separate clinical and management supervision at a frequency that meets your needs. The post-holder will contribute to the supervision of assistant psychologists, newly qualified psychologists and also team members from wider professions. We have close links with our local clinical training courses and there is opportunity to supervise trainee clinical psychologists on both core and elective placements.

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.