Clinical Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit to a 3 day / 22.5 hours a week post (0.6WTE) for a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to work as part of the Eastbourne, Downs and Weald Community Learning Disability Team. We are a forward thinking and innovative team, providing high quality support to individuals with learning disabilities. We have good working relationships with the local social care team and are co-located with them in our office in Uckfield. The role will be varied, but will have a focus upon supporting people with complex challenging behaviour, mental health needs or other issues related to both risk and vulnerability. The role will also be part of the wider team’s goals to build service competency to meet the needs of adults with learning disabilities through training and consultation.
- To work as a member of the community learning disability team.
- To provide a qualified specialist psychology service to the clients of the learning disability team
- To provide comprehensive assessments, individual and family interventions alongside other members of the learning disability team.
- To provide consultation, supervision and advice, about psychological issues, to other members of the service
- To participate in appropriate supervision and professional development.
- To participate in clinical and social care governance framework within the learning disability service.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
- To supervise assistant psychologists, and train other staff members in psychological approaches.
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the learning disability team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Teaching Training and Supervision

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from the senior psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

Management, Leadership, Recruitment, policy and service development

To participate as a clinician in identifying and implementing the development of a high quality, responsible and accessible service, in consultation with the team manager and supervisor.

Research and service evaluation

To participate in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the learning disability service operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

The post holder will be part of a dynamic and supportive multi-disciplinary team (including an 8b psychologist, 8a psychologist and behaviour practitioners) and will join an active psychology group with good opportunities for peer support and CPD. The service has a strong history of valuing and developing services for this client group.

We will be open to considering remote working options for at least part of the hours.

Interviews will be held over Skype