Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Cambridgeshire And Peterborough Nhs Foundation Trust; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust’s CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team is seeking a qualified Clinical Psychologist to provide a highly specialist psychology service to children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and ADHD, and to deliver assessments and therapies.

The post involves autonomous work within guidelines, contributing to audit, policy, and service development, and offering consultation to colleagues and other agencies.

Qualifications

• Qualified clinical psychologist
• Autonomous working within professional guidelines

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychology service to children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Conduct specialist psychological assessments and therapies for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and ADHD.
• Offer advice and consultation to professional colleagues and staff from other agencies.
• Engage in audit, policy and service development and research within the team area.

Skills

Clinical psychologist

Job description

To provide a qualified, highly specialist psychology service to children and adolescents with a neurodevelopmental disorder.

To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to both professional colleagues and staff from other agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of both the Trust's and the neurodevelopmental pathway's policies and procedures.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team. The team works with young people with a diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability as well as providing assessment and treatment for young people with Autism and ADHD. The team provides mental health assessments and psychological therapies for co-morbid mental health disorders.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability and leadership skills, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to qualified clinical psychologists with the right attributes and experience to enhance the team.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health issues then we want to hear from you. The post will be based in the Central Cambridgeshire area covering Huntingdonshire and Fenland.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.