Principal Clinical Psychologist

Wight Healthcare; Southampton; Sur place; GBP 25 000 - 33 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Wight Healthcare is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join an Intensive Support Team for adults with learning disabilities, delivering community-based assessment, intervention and consultation.

You will contribute to data collection, monitor outcomes, supervise staff, and provide training within a multidisciplinary team, while managing your workload to meet deadlines. This is a 22.5-hour-per-week post covering maternity leave.

Qualifications

• Qualified psychologist with experience working with learning disabilities.
• Experience in data collection, monitoring and evaluating behaviour.
• Ability to supervise and train staff groups.
• Strong written and verbal communication; time management skills.

Responsabilités

• Lead psychologically informed interventions to clients.
• Conduct assessments and analyse functions of behaviours.
• Provide supervision and line management to team members.
• Support data collection and monitoring across the service.
• Deliver staff training and consultancy to Community Learning Disability Teams.

Connaissances

Data collection

Behaviour assessment

Staff training

Supervision

Line management

Time management

Formation

Clinical psychology degree

Outils

Data analysis tools

Computer literacy

Description du poste

We are seeking to recruit a Clinical Psychologist to work in an Intensive Support Team for adults with learning disabilities, providing support in the community aiming to minimise challenging behaviour, improve quality of life and create effective support systems.

As a qualified psychologist with relevant experience working with people with learning disabilities, you will provide the service with skilled, reliable support in data collection and monitoring, assessment and analysis of the functions of behaviours, helping facilitate staff group training and support sessions and providing direct psychologically informed interventions to clients. You will be part of our in-reach service to Community Learning Disability Teams, providing advice and consultation. You will possess high level written and verbal communication skills and be able to use computer-based programs quickly and efficiently. You will be able to manage your time effectively to complete work to deadlines.

You will work in a multi-disciplinary team as a lead and be able to work well in different systems. You will be required to clinically supervise and line manage different members of the team.

Please note that this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised deadline if we receive a high volume of applications. This post is 22.5 hours per week for 11 months to cover maternity leave.