Job Introduction
We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our West Essex Team. £48,526 - £54,619 Band 8a salary dependent on experience with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
The position is a fixed term position for 12 months with the flexibility to negotiate your contracted hours to suit your personal commitments.
Are you a caring and dedicated Clinical Psychologist with a passion for working with children and young people with social communication difficulties? Are you interested in working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with the majority of our services being rated overall “outstanding” or “good” by the Care Quality Commission?
You will be a qualified specialist clinical psychologist with experience of working within specialist paediatric social communication disorders services. This includes the psychological assessment and management of children and young people presenting with Autism Spectrum Conditions as part of our JADES (Journey of Autism Diagnosis and Early Support) Pathway.
You will contribute to the service evaluation and development will also form part of the role.
You will be based at one of our Family Hubs within West Essex (Harlow, Epping & Uttlesford).
Main Responsibility
As a Clinical Psychologist, you’ll work closely with our multi-disciplinary JADES team which includes a Senior Clinical Psychologist, Community Paediatricians, Specialist Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapist, Specialist Neurodevelopmental Nurse and ADHD Nurse along with other dedicated staff as part of our innovative Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service. You will benefit from the support of friendly and inclusive colleagues and access regular supervision and team meetings.
You’ll provide psychological assessments of children and young people referred to the service for Autism diagnosis, based upon data from a variety of formal and informal sources, including ADOS and semi-structured interviews, such as 3Di. You will work in our Child Development Centre as well as our Family Hubs and educational settings when required. You’ll care for service users and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice and actively improving the way we work.
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the opportunity to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have Post-graduate doctorate in clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist. You will have experience of psychological assessment and management of children and young people presenting with Autism & social communication disorders.
You will have registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council as Practitioner Psychologist.
Package Description
As a Clinical Psychologist in our JADES Team (Journey of Autism Diagnosis and Early Support) you will be working as part of the team in West Essex where we deliver community services to children and young people aged 0-19.
Our Clinical Psychologist will form part of a multi-disciplinary team including Peadiatricians, Speech & Language Therapist, Occupational Therapists & Nurse, offering comprehensive, holistic assessments of autism.
You will feel valued as an Clinical Psychologist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £48,526 - £54,619 Band 8a salary dependent on experience with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- 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.
About the Company
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.
