Clinical Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a proactive Clinical Psychologist to work within the Learning Disability Team. The successful candidate will provide direct clinical assessments, formulations, and interventions to individuals with learning disabilities, complex mental health, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, and emotional needs. The service is person-centered and has received national recognition for its outstanding work. The role involves advocating for the rights and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Registered with the HCPC (live registration)
- Active registration and membership of the PBS
- Evidence of working with people with learning disabilities, mental health issues, autism, challenging behaviour and physical disabilities
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting difficulties that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of planning or conducting research/ audit
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing teaching & training and/or supervision
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework
- Knowledge & skills
- Skills in the use of complex methods of specialist assessment (including psychometric assessment) frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Evidence of a high level of communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to impart highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Evidence of an understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with learning disabilities including those additional needs such as autism, mental health issues, challenging behaviour and physical disabilities
- Ability to train or teach others using a variety of complex multi-media material suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis and the ability to undertake regular service audits, evaluation or research
- Experience of group work, consultations and working with staff teams
- Planning and organizing skills for caseload management
- Skills in self-management, including time-management
- Able to contain and work with reasonable limits of organizational stress. Have the capacity to be interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognizing when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice
- Ability to work as a part of a team and to integrate within a multidisciplinary team (internal and multi-agency basis)
- Evidence of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working and demonstration of an understanding of the skills required within such settings
- Other
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively within evidence-based practice
- Able to comply with local and Trust policies, SOPs and practices, information governance and record keeping practices
- Careful use of supplies and equipment (e.g. assessment tools)
- Competent skills in computers and software packages e.g. word, excel, power pointer, SPSS etc
- Ability to manage potentially unpleasant conditions which may require physical, mental and emotional effort including frequent concentration
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Registered with the HCPC (live registration)
- Active registration and membership of the PBS
- Evidence of working with people with learning disabilities, mental health issues, autism, challenging behaviour and physical disabilities
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting difficulties that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of planning or conducting research/ audit
- Experience of providing teaching & training and/or supervision
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework
- Knowledge & skills
- Skills in the use of complex methods of specialist assessment (including psychometric assessment) frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Evidence of a high level of communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to impart highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Evidence of an understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people with learning disabilities including those additional needs such as autism, mental health issues, challenging behaviour an
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West London NHS Trust
Clinical Psychologist
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
I'm excited to offer this opportunity to a forward thinking and proactive Clinical Psychologist.
We work in a very person-centered way and people with learning disabilities and their families are at the center entre of what we do. To achieve this, we carry out joint assessments, share our professional knowledge and work in partnership with key parts of the local health and care system.
You will provide direct clinical assessments, formulations interventions to individuals and will have active support from the principal Lead Clinical Psychologist.
In 2021, the service was nationally recognised and received a 'highly commended' accolade from the National Pharmacy Awards. In 2022 we reached the finals at the National Learning Disability and Autism Awards and later that year received the Trust's 'Outstanding Clinical Team of the year. More recently in 2025, we were recognised for 'Outstanding Patient Experience' from our Speech & language therapists and nationally, from the 'Beyond Words' charity for the 'Most Inspirational Outcome'. In May 2026, the service received the local 'Team of the Month' in recognition of the outstanding work we undertake.
Main duties of the job
Work as an integral member of the Learning Disability Team, holding responsibility for a desig
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