Community Learning Disabilities Practitioner Psychologist

We are looking for a highly experienced and enthusiastic Practitioner Psychologist to join our Community Learning Disabilities Team, where you will play a key role in improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities and their families. You will work closely with psychiatry and a skilled multi-disciplinary community team, delivering highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention across a wide range of presentations. These include cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, trauma work, autism and other neurodevelopmental or neuropsychiatric conditions, dementia, and complex mental health needs. We actively support the development of specialist clinical interests. The role includes direct clinical work, formulation-led interventions, consultation at operational and strategic levels, and providing supervision, training, and leadership to colleagues and trainees. You will help shape the future development of learning disabilities psychology services within the organisation. You will be supported by a friendly, innovative team with a strong focus on supervision, collaboration, and professional development, alongside access to a wider psychology network. This is an excellent opportunity to use your expertise where it will have real and lasting impact.,

• Maintain and further develop a high-quality psychology and therapeutic service across BSW, working collaboratively with psychology colleagues.
• Undertake highly specialist psychological assessments, including neuropsychological, risk, and suitability assessments, in partnership with service users and carers where appropriate.
• Deliver advanced, evidence-based psychological therapies using specialist skills across a range of models (e.g. CBT, EMDR, DBT, PBS).
• Use psychological formulation to support shared understanding of need and to inform effective treatment and care planning.
• Provide specialist consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to psychology staff and colleagues from other professional backgrounds.
• Support MDTs to ensure psychological expertise informs holistic and specialist care, enhancing outcomes for individuals, carers, and the wider system.
• Deliver and develop specialist psychological interventions in line with service priorities and population needs.
• Contribute to the training and development of staff across the organisation.
• Participate in required clinical and caseload supervision, maintaining professional standards of practice.
• Maintain accurate clinical records, manage workload effectively, and ensure timely and accurate data entry in line with organisational procedures.
  
  Doctoral qualification in Clinical Psychology, or equivalent, including Counselling Psychology.
• Eligible for Chartered Psychologist status.
• HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist.
• Evidence of post-qualification experience and further specialist training in relevant psychological interventions.
• Up-to-date knowledge of professional issues relating to learning disabilities, including current policy, practice, and emerging trends within health and social care., Ability to work across the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) ICB area, maintaining a presence through hybrid working.
• The post will initially have a particular focus on supporting the Swindon area.
• Willingness to work across other areas of HCRG Care Group as required by service need.
• Hold a full, valid UK driving licence and be a competent driver, with access to a car for work purposes.
• Strong time management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage a specialist workload effectively.
  
  We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Package Description As a Community Learning Disabilities Practitioner Psychologist you will be part of our valued team in our Learning Disabilities & Autism Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
• £66,582 - £77,368 FTE (Band 8b AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission