Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Overview

In this role you will provide clinical and strategic leadership within the Learning Disability Care Hub, guiding psychology services to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care. You will work with multidisciplinary teams, families and partner organisations to develop services, drive quality improvement and influence Trust-wide priorities. You will balance specialist clinical work with workforce development, research and teaching to advance learning disability practice and reduce health inequalities. This is a senior, impact-driven leadership position in a supportive, innovative Trust setting.

Pay / Benefits

• generous annual leave
• flexible working opportunities
• access to Continued Professional Development
• involvement in improvement and research activities
• staff wellbeing service
• staff discounts

Responsibilities

• Provide visible professional and clinical leadership for psychological therapies across the Care Hub
• Contribute to strategic direction and delivery of high-quality, person-centred care aligned with Trust priorities
• Lead service improvements and innovative projects; shape future models of care
• Offer expert consultation, risk assessment guidance, and treatment planning to multi-disciplinary teams
• Maintain a small specialist caseload while developing service-wide psychological approaches
• Promote strengths-based, trauma-informed, evidence-based practices
• Develop policies, pathways and standards across learning disability services
• Lead and contribute to research, audits and quality improvement activities
• Build partnerships with community, health, social care and third-sector organisations
• Lead, supervise and mentor psychological therapy staff and trainees; support recruitment and workforce planning
• Champion rights, inclusion and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities and their families
• Represent the Care Hub in Trust-wide and external forums

Key requirements

• Good honours degree in Psychology
• Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent) accredited by the BPS
• HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist
• Advanced specialist training/qualifications in relevant therapeutic approaches
• Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees; experience supervising Clinical Psychologists in Training
• Experience as a highly specialised clinical psychologist with extensive work with people with learning disabilities and complex needs

• leadership and mentorship
• collaboration and partnership working
• excellent communication and consultation
• highly specialist assessment, formulation and intervention
• risk assessment, treatment planning and care delivery
• trauma-informed and evidence-based approaches

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