Clinical Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting full-time, permanent opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join the Neurodevelopmental Assessment Team at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves undertaking specialist assessment and diagnostic activities for children and young people with suspected ASD or ADHD. The successful candidate will work autonomously within professional guidelines, provide supervision, and contribute to research and service development within the ND service.
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of Psychopathology, Clinical Psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Current registration with the health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Training and experience in supervision of qualified staff
- Assessed experience of working as a psychologist within CAMHS or Paediatrics.
- Training/experience of providing evidence based interventions.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and stressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of conducting risk assessments within complex clinical settings.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with young people with ASD.
- Knowledge and Skills
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation and its complications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of others.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and severely challenging behaviours etc.)
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies.
- Personal Attributes
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
- Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of gove
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a clinical psychologist to join the Neurodevelopmental Assessment Team, within Community and Mental Health Division, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a full time, permanent position. The ND psychology service is a small team consisting of a Lead Clinical Psychologists, 3 Clinical Psychologist, and two assistant clinical psychologists. The wider team consists ofCommunity Paediatricians, Neuro-developmental Practitioners, Speech and Language Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Administrators.
At Alder Hey we are a commissioned ND Assessment service for Children & Young People aged from 2 years to 18 years who reside in Liverpool, Sefton and Knowsley. We are looking for a clinical psychologist with strong clinical skills and experience relevant to working with children and young people. The successful candidate should possess strong interpersonal skills and personal qualities which will support them to work with children, young people and families with neurodiversity, may be in acute distress or be from a diverse range of backgrounds. They must be able to communicate effectively with a range of professionals, including the police and social care. Experience of research and facilitating service developments is beneficial.
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