Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
1. To provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology service to clients referred to the Community Learning Disability Teams.
2. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
3. Under supervision, to employ analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
4. To, when appropriate, manage assistant psychologists and allocated Trainee Psychologists working in Learning Disabilities Psychological Professions.
5. To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation and clinically relevant research as agreed under the supervision of the professional lead and to disseminate the results across the Learning Disabilities service, NELFT and where appropriate, nationally.
6. To plan, organise and provide teaching, training, consultation and, as appropriate, clinical supervision to other professionals and disciplines within the CLDT in the psychological aspects of their work.
7. Teaching and training for TT practitioners, developing reasonable adjustments to enable access for people with learning disabilities to TT, providing consultation and advice to TT practitioners working with people with learning disabilities to assist assessment and treatment within TT services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* Doctoral level training or equivalent in clinical/counselling psychology.
Experience
Essential Criteria
* HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist.
* Experience of working with people with learning disabilities and/or mental health.
Desirable Criteria
* Experience of application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge
Essential Criteria
* Skills in using complex methods of psychological assessments and interventions.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to Download
* B7 Psychologist LDPP JDPS (PDF, 440.0KB)
* NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)
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