Consultant Clinical Psychologist Child Neuro / CLDT / IST

We are looking to employ an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our well-established Neurodevelopmental, IST and CCLDT services.
These services are currently transferring into a new Children's Integrated Directorate and the successful applicant will play a key role in the successful transformation.
You will work alongside the General and Service Managers and other clinical and team leads to provide, as part of our local Autism Strategy, excellent quality assessment and intervention services to neurodivergent children and young people and to those with a learning disability.
Your teams will include a range of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Allied Health Professionals, Nursing and Social Care Colleagues. Key tasks of this role include oversight and governance of the assessment pathways for autism and ADHD, supporting the IST to reduce Tier 4 mental health hospital admissions in line with Coventry and Warwickshire's Transforming Care Programme and clinical oversight and governance of the Psychological Professions in the CCLDT.
There is robust multi-professional working within the service and with partner agencies and providers with the contribution of the psychological professions being highly valued.

NHS AfC: Band 8c
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services

Children's Integrated Directorate - Consultant Psychologist, Children's Neurodevelopmental Service, Children's Intensive Support Team (IST) and Children's Community Learning Disability Teams (CCLDT).
This post is for 30 hours per week.
+ Are you looking for a job that can give you a diverse range of opportunities to learn and develop?
+ Would you like to work in a service where Psychology and other Psychological Professions are highly valued?
+ Would you value the chance to be part of a new Integrated Directorate for Children's services?
+ Would you like to be offered excellent support and supervision?
+ Do you want more opportunities to develop professionally?
A job with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust can provide all these things. As an organisation we provide comprehensive mental health and learning disability services to the population of Coventry and Warwickshire. The Trust has a strategic aim of developing a Children's Integrated Directorate which includes mental and physical health services alongside neurodevelopmental and children's learning disability services., Successful applicants will receive excellent support and regular, good quality supervision and CPD opportunities. We have well-established links with the Coventry and Warwick Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, providing placements, teaching and supervising doctoral research projects. We also have research links with Warwick University and there will be opportunities to maintain/develop your research skills.
Suitable candidates will have considerable clinical experience and demonstrate highly specialist psychological knowledge in the field of neurodiversity and CLDTs for children. They will have a thorough understanding of the national, regional and local context around transformational change in relation to admission avoidance. They will demonstrate experience of leading on quality improvement initiatives within neurodevelopmental and community learning disability settings.