Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

We are excited to share this opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist (7 - 8a) to join our dynamic team. We are a progressive company, based in Kidderminster, running NHS services with a trauma-informed, holistic approach and have a committed approach to face-to-face assessments. Our belief is that families and individuals deserve our time and attention at this instrumental time in their lives to ensure that they get the very best outcome for them.

The successful candidate will be joining our strong, multi-disciplinary team based in Kidderminster, providing NHS and independent neurodiversity assessments and support across the lifespan in Herefordshire & Worcestershire (H&W) and the West Midlands.

We would love to hear from enthusiastic and experienced colleagues who are looking to play a key part in the development of our work to provide outstanding, neuro-affirming assessments and care for neurodivergent children and adults.

A key element of the role will be assessing, providing supervision, to support our growing Multi-Disciplinary team, including experienced colleagues from within Speech and Language, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Education, Psychology, and Social Work.

We encourage interest from candidates who are passionate about enhancing the lives of clients with neurodiverse traits.

Job responsibilities

You will be helping to deliver our NHS Adult Autism service as well as our NHS Under 18 Right to Choose offering. This is a dynamic role that has seen significant demand in line with the national trend. Resources are available when required to grow the service in line with any capacity restraints.

Our Adult Autism Pathway is well-established, and our team is committed to ensuring the individuals and families have the very best outcomes.

Our CYP Right to Choose Pathway is a newly established pathway within Hereford & Worcestershire. TFP are working with partners and stakeholders to continue to develop a Right to Choose service that these young people and their families can rely on. We are committed to ensuring the young person's futures will not be prohibited or restricted by their neurodiverse traits, and are passionate about promoting a neuro-affirming community.

You will be a qualified Clinical Psychologist with a passion for working with neurodiverse individuals and their families at all ages. You will have strong clinical skills, bringing a compassionate and supportive approach to join others in the team.

You will have the knowledge and skills in neurodiversity and mental health to undertake assessments and deliver evidence-based and outcomes, as well as supporting others in this work.

In this role you will be supported by our Autism and ADHD leads, our Interventions and Safeguarding leads as well as the overarching support from our Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Managing Director.

You will understand the importance of collaborative working with the individual and extended family including carers and schools to ensure the right clinical decision is made for the individual. To ensure this is achieved you will liaise with our Interventions and Safeguarding leads where appropriate to ensure a trauma-informed approach is at the centre of everything we do.

You will be a reflective practitioner with strengths to bring to a multi-disciplinary team. You will have skills and knowledge to support team members through supervision and MDT meetings.

Our multidisciplinary team includes Assistant Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Teachers, Social Workers and Mental Health Practitioners/Nurses from a diverse range of backgrounds. This provides an opportunity to work in a team with a strong multidisciplinary ethos as well as collaborating with colleagues in other divisions and working in partnership with other agencies.

Qualifications

Essential

• A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent e.g. Master's level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
• Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
• A passion for neurodiversity.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of delivering effective, evidence-based, outcomes-informed psychological assessments with adults, children, young people and families, including risk assessment and risk management.
• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including shared decision making and the use of both clinician and patient-rated outcome measures
• Experience of working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary services and across organisational boundaries
• Experience of working with a wide variety of adult and child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Experience of obtaining service user feedback and data to improve outcomes and services
• Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
• Experience of using an equality and diversity framework in clinical, supervisory, and leadership practice.
• Experience of initiating, chairing, attending, and contributing to multi-professional and interagency meetings.
• Experience of working as an autonomous individual, taking on responsibility, making decisions, and seeking support as needed.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation and share this with others including service users and professionals
• The ability to work as an autonomous clinician, make decisions under pressure, and seek support as appropriate.
• The ability to communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with adults, children and young people, parents, carers, and others as appropriate, conveying information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning assessment, clinical formulation, and treatment, at times during emotionally difficult situations.
• The ability to present complex, often sensitive information in a variety of formats, both written and verbal, in a professional, clear, and organised manner to the standards laid out by the Neurodiversity Leads and Clinical Director.