Senior Clinical Psychologist - Neurodiversity

Come and join us in North Devon to help improve the lives of Children and Young People! The perfect work life balance - spend your working hours with friendly and supportive colleagues as part of our innovative, integrated children's service then spend your leisure time in this inspiring part of the country, home to a World Surfing Reserve, the renowned UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and beautiful Exmoor!

In line with transformation, we are looking for experienced Clinical Psychologists to join us in senior roles (Band 8a) in our Neurodiversity pathway, providing specialist assessments and interventions to neurodiverse children and young people across Devon.

Preceptorship opportunity - new/early qualified psychologists could be appointed to this role at band 7 under a preceptorship to work towards requirements for band 8a, subject to satisfactory completion of preceptorship process.

Its an exciting time of change as we develop integrated, needs-led pathways under iThrive. We are passionate about our work and are committed to providing high quality services across Devon to improve outcomes for children and young people.

We would love to hear from experienced colleagues looking to further develop their career in an innovative service at an exciting time of change.

Senior Clinical Psychology roles are also being advertised in other pathways so please view additional CFHD adverts., As a Senior Clinical Psychologist, you will be offering high-quality complex assessments and psychological input to children, young people and their families who access the support of this pathways. You will bring advanced formulation skills and consultation to your team alongside wider service development contributions. More detail about the pathway can be found in the Job Description section.

There will be CPD opportunities to support your development and a commitment to supporting your career progression at this stage in relation to consolidating your supervisory role and leadership skills as well as further expanding your clinical knowledge and skills.

You will have regular clinical supervision and separate line management. You will be supported with a job plan with opportunities to use a breadth of skills including research and service development. There is a strong and friendly network of Clinical Psychologists working across CFHD, enjoying shared CPD and professional support. We also have excellent links with local Doctoral courses for teaching and Trainee placements.

We encourage interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences, both personal and professional.

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.