Clinical Psychologist
Livewell Southwest
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Job summary
The Community Learning Disabilities Team (CLDT) covers the whole city of Plymouth. It is a highly dispersed service requiring liaison with many different independent sector providers of residential, day and respite care, integrating with Adult Social Care services. The post holder will be an autonomous lead specialist covering the whole catchment area, accountable for their own professional actions.
The CLDT is looking for an 8a psychologist -30 hours a week, who is passionate about working with people with learning disabilities, who is enthusiastic and creative in their working. The post holder will show skill in undertaking complex assessments including capacity assessments, risk assessments and neuropsychological assessments. They will be confident and able to work with a wide range of mental health issues in people with learning disabilities, their families, and the systems around them. They will be able to provide psychological advice and consultation to the wider teams and systems around service users. They will be able to draw on compassionate leadership skills to support the CLDT team and other provider teams. The CLDT is a 9-5 service, Monday to Friday.
All Livewell Southwest staff are expected to able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Job Share(s) Considered
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work as part of an MDT across a wide range of settings. They will provide a specialist Clinical Psychology service to service users aged 18 and over with a Learning Disability who are accepted into the Community LearningDisabilityTeam.
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of their own caseload of clients with variety of complex problems including mental ill-health, behaviours that challenge, personality difficulties, autism spectrum disorders and neurological problems. This particularly includes families and paid carers in a wide range of independent sector provision.
They will offer highly specialist psychological interventions, formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues, provide leadership from a psychological perspective to the MDT, and provide professional support, guidance and clinical supervision to clinical psychology staff (including trainee's and undergraduate placement students)andnon-psychology staff within the CLDT.
They will be expected to develop specialist responsibilities on a specific area of expertise that balances their experience, interests, and needs of the service.
They will support planning, organising, auditing and developing policy and strategies for the delivery of a specialist psychology service within the multidisciplinary CLDT.The post holder will also contribute to teaching andinitiating and maintaining research and development projects.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Date posted
15 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£48,526 to £54,619 a year pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number
B9832-2023-SP-971
Job locations
Westbourne Unit
Beacon Park Road
Plymouth
PL2 2PQ
Employer details
Employer name
Livewell Southwest
Address
Westbourne Unit
Beacon Park Road
Plymouth
PL2 2PQ
Employer's website
https://www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)