Senior Clinical Psychologist

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust; Butterwick; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust in Sunderland is seeking a confident, dynamic psychologist to join our busy neurodevelopmental assessment team. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members alongside the Principal Clinical Psychologists, and Assistant Psychologist assessing children and young people.

You will be supported to develop leadership skills and contribute to service development, teaching, training, service evaluation and research, with opportunities to engage in CPD and

Qualifications

• Significant experience and training in neurodevelopmental assessment skills.
• Ability to lead assessment and formulation of complex presentations.

Responsibilities

• Lead neurodevelopmental assessments and formulate complex presentations.
• Supervise assistant psychologists and contribute to teaching, service evaluation and research.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support children and young people.

Skills

Neurodevelopmental assessment

Clinical leadership

Supervision

Job description

We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic and dynamic psychologist to join our busy multi-disciplinary neurodevelopmental assessment team working in Sunderland. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members alongside the Principal Clinical Psychologists, and Assistant Psychologist 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.

The successful candidate will be supported to develop their leadership skills and to contribute to service development and innovative practice. There will also be opportunities to engage in delivering teaching, training, service evaluation and research according to interests and service need. We will expect the post holder to actively pursue continuous professional development and will support them to identify needs and to develop. There will also opportunity to work into the mental health pathway to support maintaining therapeutic skills and interests., 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. The post-holder will contribute to the supervision of assistant 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.