Specialist Clinical Psychologist

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89Job Description:We are excited to offer a permanent role for a motivated Specialist Clinical Psychologist. We want you to join our Community Learning Disabilities Service, rated as ‘Outstanding in Well Led’ and ‘Good’ overall by CQC. You will be working within a Specialist Adult Learning Disabilities Service (South team, Grantham & Spalding). This role plays a key role in shaping and developing the current services lines and would be a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about driving change for the local community, through providing clinical leadership and innovative care for our clients.
These post provides an ideal opportunity for an existing Band 8a or Band 7 Clinical Psychologist looking to progress, or for someone who is newly qualified, to consolidate a range of clinical skills. The post affords the opportunity to progress from a Band 7 to a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist, following the successful completion of identified targets, based upon acquired skills and Agenda for Change job matching. We have a good track record of supporting such development within the service. We will also support with providing appropriate training opportunities suitable for the role.
For further information, please contact Dr Adam Harris (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) on or Requests for flexible working will be considered.
You will support the provision of a specialist psychological service for adults with Learning Disabilities across 3 core pathways: mental health, positive behaviour support and physical health pathway.
Our psychologists primarily work on the mental health pathway, while also offering consultation and support to the other two pathways. We regularly support the service with the provision of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as well as evaluations/audits. Communication skills are key as well as being able to liaise and work with external and partner agencies.
We often provide training to external agencies to support our clinical interventions. Part of the role will also include the specialist identification and assessment of autism in adults with LD. The service will provide all necessary training required to fulfil the role (which includes training in autism diagnostic tools, if needed).
As part of this role, you will receive regular clinical supervision from a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist. You should also be able to provide clinical supervision to junior Psychologists as well as other members of the MDT. As a speciality we have good links with the local Trent DClinPsy programme and there is an expectation that we offer regular teaching and training placements to Clinical Psychologists in training.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life . Visit to find out more .
To provide expert psychological services directly to adults with learning disabilities, including psychological assessment, formulation & intervention (direct & indirect), including management of risk. Work with a range of presenting problems related to LD/Autism.
To develop, monitor and support interventions that will be applied by proxies (such as care workers).
To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological, particularly with regard to the MDT.
To provide consultation, guidance and advice to relevant significant others (family/carers). To provide clinical supervision to junior psychologists (Assistants & Trainees).
To provide consultation and advice and (where appropriate) clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies that provide services to adults with LD.
To provide clinical leadership and advice to colleagues and other persons working with complex clients who have LD &/or Autism across the County.
To provide inputs to the Trent DClinPsy training course including curriculum development, teaching and assessment.
To participate in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the service’s policies, via research, audit, service evaluation. To collect data on referrals, caseloads and activities and submit these as required by the Trust.
To take due care of the Trust’s equipment and resources, including exercising responsibility for managing the psychological resources.Location: Lincoln