Job Overview 8b Clinical, forensic, or counselling psychologist for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities, Leicestershire. An opportunity has arisen within our team for a 0.4 WTE 8B principle clinical, forensic, or counselling psychologist. The post is ideal for those looking to work part time or to supplement another part time post. As an 8B, you will have significant post-qualification experience, established clinical leadership skills & enjoy working in this specialty. LPT provides high quality services for adults with learning disabilities. We are a small friendly team of practitioner psychologists dedicated to working with individuals with learning disabilities and their families and carers. We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join us. You will also work alongside other professional groups including community nurses, psychiatry, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy as well as multi-agency colleagues. We work in a variety of clinic and community-based settings with multiple bases across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. There is the opportunity for flexible and hybrid/home working. Modes of working include one-to-one therapy, group work, systemic approaches with families and carers, consultation and supervision with allied health professionals and collaboration with multi-agency colleagues as well as advocating for the rights and needs of our service users. We also carry out multiple forms of assessment including eligibility for the service and mental capacity act relating to a range of issues. The role includes providing clinical leadership as well as involvement in service delivery design. Our work force is psychologically minded and values our input. We aim to support psychological approaches and thinking throughout the service with examples including the provision of reflective practice groups. We nurture our staff & their development with regular clinical supervision (individual & peer group), job plans, annual appraisals and training needs analyses in line with pathway & professional needs. Recent CPD has included EMDR, Compassion focused, and narrative therapy as well as trauma-based PBS. Research and service evaluation is encouraged. LPT has a well-being hub for staff. Hybrid home/ community-based working models are currently in place. Contact details: Peter Beardsworth, peter.beardsworthnhs.net Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities) To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to adults with a learning disability, their families and their carers though work with the community team. To work with others including: multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues; and provision of specialist advice and consultancy as required. To be responsible for the systematic provision of the clinical psychology service to the community learning disability team, including co-ordination of locality team psychology, proposing service developments and policy changes. To be pathway co-lead for and psychological lead on a clinical pathway (e.g. dementia, trauma, autism, epilepsy, forensic, mental health, PBS, complex physical, eating& drinking), to support the clinical network initiatives across the community. To provide a lead specialist role in psychologically based assessments and interventions within a Learning Disabilities community team and offer specialist advice and consultation to colleagues in the team contributing directly to diagnosis and interventions using the community clinical pathways. To supervise work of newly qualified clinical psychologists, doctoral clinical psychology trainees and graduate assistant psychologists. To undertake audit, Research and Development within the learning disability service and Continued Professional Development activities Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details. We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.