Clinical psychologist 7/8a
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a fixed-term, 9-month maternity cover position for an enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join the Children's Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities. The role involves providing assessments, formulations, and interventions to children and young people with a wide range of psychological distress and difficulties, including those with autism, ADHD, and mental health issues. You will work within a compassionate, multi-disciplinary team that prioritizes service users and their families, focusing on trauma-informed practice and high-quality supervision.
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Knowledge of legislation and key documents in relation to the LD population
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising of others or providing consultation to others
- Experience for working with people with LD
- Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies with people with LD
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessments, formulations and interventions
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team based working environment as well as with service users and their families/carers
- Experience and ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Skills in developing systemic formulations around the person with LD
- Knowledge & Expereince
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Knowledge of legislation and key documents in relation to the LD population
- Experience of supervising of others or providing consultation to others
- Experience for working with people with LD
- Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies with people with LD
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessments, formulations and interventions
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team based working environment as well as with service users and their families/carers
- Experience and ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Skills in developing systemic formulations around the person with LD
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £64,750 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Clinical psychologist 7/8a
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our Children's Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities. This position is for a fixed term, 9 months maternity cover. We are a passionate, multi-disciplinary team who puts service users and their families at the forefront in everything we do. You would be providing assessments, formulations and interventions to service users and their families/ support systems. You would be working with children and young people presenting with a wide range of psychological distress and difficulties including people with autism, ADHD, attachment issues, trauma, loss, mental health issues, behaviour which challenges.
We have an excellent reputation for being a compassionate service who leads in trauma informed practice. We are a welcoming and inclusive psychological service and MDT, who work together to ensure the services we provide are of high quality. Reflective practice is essential in our work and we provide excellent quality supervision, peer supervision, journal clubs and reflective practice sessions to ensure we are working at the high standard that service users deserve.
Main duties of the job
Main duties include:
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