Job Description

Join our established NHS learning disabilities service where psychology plays a key role in transforming lives and developing innovative care approaches.

The Tri-borough Learning Disabilities service in Kensington and Chelsea is a well-established team co-located with the RBKC learning disabilities social care team, providing high quality services for people with learning disabilities. Psychology plays a key role in the development and delivery of these services.


We are seeking to recruit a qualified psychologist with a keen interest in working in adult learning disability services. We are happy to accept applications from trainees who are coming up to completing their doctorate. You will be required to provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions along with advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, staff and families who access our service.


The service has good links with the North London Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, to which it regularly provides clinical placements to doctoral trainees.

About the Role

You will undertake direct and indirect work with service users with learning disabilities, autism and behaviours of concern, their carers, family members and other agencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The person appointed will have a Professional Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and will be registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.


Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!

Benefits

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up) Flexible working options Annual travel card loan Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits


Please refer to and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.


Benefits:


Flexitime
Work Location: In person