Clinical Psychologist

Location

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire | United Kingdom

Job description

The Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Clinical Psychology Service employs 13 psychologists when fully staffed, on a number of City and County sites. We work in Intellectual Disability Community Teams, Intensive Community Assessment and Treatment teams (ICATT) and inpatient teams, as well as the Neurodevelopmental Specialist Service. We enjoy strong relationships with local clinical psychology training courses and host trainees on a regular basis. We aim to provide a compassionate, respectful, personalised, dynamic, and evolving clinical psychology service. Our primary function is to contribute psychological understandings to all the teams and services we work with, using psychological theories and evidence to deepen and broaden existing understandings of the people involved. We work in partnership with our multidisciplinary colleagues, and with service users and their carers, to maximise wellbeing and quality of life. We draw flexibly on a broad range of models and types of intervention, our clinicians are trained in models such as CAT, EMDR and NET. You will provide psychology input within one or more community teams, including specialist assessment and treatment, consultation, training and supervision. You will contribute to service evaluation and research. You must be a qualified and registered clinical psychologist, or working towards this, with experience of working in the field of intellectual disability and/or related areas. You must have excellent writing skills. A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010

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Salary

£43.74k - £57.35k per annum