Consultant Psychologist

The consultant will be a member of the LD senior management team, leading on psychological service development across LD services.

The trust has strong links with the Staffordshire Clinical Doctorate course and there is an emphasis on leading and developing psychological clinical research as part of the role.

Applicants will be a core member of LD services with multi-disciplinary teams. Experience in clinical supervision is required to supervise Senior Clinical Colleagues. Leadership experience is essential, including strategic and workforce planning for the psychology team., Responsible for the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with learning disabilities with highly complex physical and mental health conditions which include challenging behaviours and possible risk of physical aggression.

To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.

To provide specialist clinical supervision, leadership and training to the Psychology core team and colleagues within the designated psychology services and to other members of the multidisciplinary team, where required.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.