(Part-time) Clinical Psychologist - Children & Young People NEW Aylesbury Posted today £55,690 [...]

Oxford Health; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Aylesbury is seeking a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to conduct assessments for neurodivergent children and young people, focusing on ADHD and Autism. The role, part-time at 22.5 hours per week, offers opportunities for professional development in a supportive team environment. Essential qualifications include doctoral-level training in psychology and HCPC registration. Benefits include 27 days annual leave, career progression, and NHS discounts.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discount

Competitive pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment including neurodevelopmental assessment.
• Experience working with diverse client groups across various care settings.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive ADHD and Autism assessments.
• Support and supervise colleagues in multi-agency working.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Consultation skills

Organizational skills

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology

Current HCPC registration as Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Job description

Job overview

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, who wants to further develop your skills with neurodivergence in a friendly, supportive and innovative team? Are you passionate about delivering quality assessments for Autism and ADHD using a neuro affirming approach in the beautiful county of Buckinghamshire?

We're recruiting a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join Bucks CAMHS team assessing for ADHD and autism. Please note this role is part-time working 22.5 hours per week.

You will join a well-established, and knowledgeable, friendly, kind and neuro affirmative multi-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to deliver quality assessments and influence service improvements. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, including developing your leadership skills and supervision of others as and continuing professional development and research opportunities. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person including their neurodivergence, mental health and developmental profile.

Please contact us if you want to arrange a visit or if you want to know more!

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll be contributing to the assessment process for neurodivergent children and young people.

We work closely with families to understand their child's needs both prior to and within the assessment experince. The team consists of multi-agency professionals who bring robust assessment and reflection to MDT and team meetings.

The service has recently moved through a new model and is now embedding this 1 day assessments model which is supporting families and clinicians in management of the assessment process.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main duties of the job include:

• Carrying out comprehensive ADHD and Autism assessment
• ADOS assessments when training is completed if needed
• Supporting team and service development
• Shared formulation
• Support and supervision of colleagues
• Multi-agency working

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children and adolescents with conditions appropriate to the post.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology including specifically models of Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Current HCPC registration as a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Desirable criteria

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, training and/or other fields of applied psychology. staff

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment including neurodevelopmental assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse

Desirable criteria

• Experience of running / co-running groups
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with people with conditions appropriate to the post.

Documents to Download

Psychologist Neurodevelopmental Team (PDF, 344.4KB)

Job Risks Form (PDF, 216.6KB)

Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 424.6KB)

Recruiter Contact Details

Name: Alison Ritchie

Title: Operational Lead

Email: [e-mail]

Telephone: [phone]