Principal Paediatric Clinical Psychologist and Neurodisability Lead

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Basingstoke and Deane; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Basingstoke is seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist to lead contributions in neurodisability services. The role involves managing complex cases, providing evidence-based psychological support, and supervising junior staff. Candidates should have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and significant experience in child and adolescent mental health. The position offers an opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team dedicated to improving patient care and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in psychological assessment and intervention.
• Experience working with children and young people with autism and neurodisabilities.
• Ability to evaluate complex treatment options.

Responsibilities

• Manage a clinical caseload autonomously.
• Implement evidence-based psychological treatments.
• Provide supervision and mentorship to other professionals.
• Conduct complex risk assessments.
• Lead on initiatives relevant to psychology.

Skills

Advanced psychological skills

Supervisory skills

Inter-agency collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

A Vacancy at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


As Principal Clinical Psychologist and Neurodisability Lead, you will work closely with the Clinical Psychologists and Paediatricians in RHCH, as well as the multidisciplinary team of Paediatricians, Clinical Psychologist, a Speech and Language Therapist, and a Child Development Practitioner, in the Early Years Autism Team in Basingstoke, providing lead contributions to neurodisability service developments across HHFT.

You will bring advanced skills to offer high-quality psychological input. This will include complex assessment, formulation and diagnostic thinking, intervention and consultation. You will support the development of integrated work across pathways to support consistent, uninterrupted experiences of care.

You will bring strong supervisory skills. You will have proven experience working positively with inter-agency colleagues.

For both Paediatric Psychology and Pre-school ASD:

To provide specialist psychological assessments of children and young people referred to the team a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action [e-mail].
1. To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence based psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of complex psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make complex decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of complex clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
6. To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues at a high level of professional expertise to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with the service users, across a range of agencies/settings as appropriate.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to benefit all children and young people seen within the service.
8. To undertake highly complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including assessments of individuals who are frequently aggressive.
9. To provide specialist psychological advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other professionals in order to develop a psychological understanding on the basis of which to plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based interventions for clients with complex needs.
10. To be responsible for the professional supervision and development of psychologists in the service. To assess the need for further training and access CPD when necessary. To lead on local and national initiatives relevant to psychology.
11. To liaise with other relevant child and adolescent mental health and ASD services as required.


This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025