Main area Management, clinical, nursing, leadership Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent: Preceptorship would be considered Hours 22.5 hours per week (Part Time) Job ref 327-25-512
Site Evergreen House Town Cheltenham Salary £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 17/07/2025 23:59
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county .
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you ’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and w e are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality team s in all areas of the Trust .
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing multi agency team comprising Paediatricians, Clinical Psychology, Speech & Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy.
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated Clinical Psychologist who would be able to work closely with multi disciplinary colleagues to offer leadership and clinical expertise. It is important that the applicant has experience working as part of an MDT providing evidence-based neurodiverse assessments in line with NICE guidance, with consideration of differential diagnosis. Evidence of effective partnership working with education and health colleagues is essential.
We are seeking someone who will:
* Work well with colleagues, families and commissioners, adapting their communication style appropriately and showing leadership and compassion.
* Show a good understanding of neurodiversity and differential diagnosis
* have experience working in Children's services and strong clinical skills.
* demonstrate clear communication of the development of the team both within the service/ directorate and relevant external service.
* have a range of experience of working within services which deliver innovative and high-quality services to children and young people.
* hold a doctorate in Clinical Psychology
Main duties of the job
* Working as part of the SCAAS and Neuro Team offering high quality assessment and formulation of children's needs.
* Holding the ‘child’s voice’ as central to all decision making and working towards the best outcomes for children and families.
* Work as part of the diagnostic pathway providing clinical expertise.
* Offer clinical supervision and consultation to a range of multi-agency colleagues
* Support staff training and development.
* Opportunities to develop your leadership, managerial and clinical skills through training, profession specific support and development supervision and personal coaching initiatives.
* We will offer you: The challenge of complex and varied work within an integrated multi agency team
* A variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts.
* Our service is proud of its strong multi-disciplinary ethos within its clinical delivery and has robust clinical supervision, workload management and Continuing Professional Development structures in place.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Provide and coordinate highly specialist Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessment, formulation and differential diagnosis clinical provision for children and young people up to their 18 th birthday. The initial service development will focus on preschool and primary school aged children. Provision will be in accordance to the application of a range of profession specific models of clinical practice.
· Undertake a clinical leadership role in providing and coordinating highly specialist Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessments, formulations and differential diagnosis clinical provision for children and young people up to their 18 th birthday. The initial service development will focus on preschool and primary school aged children.
· Undertake clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex needs, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.
· Undertake a clinical leadership role and other management related tasks regarding planning, delivering and evaluating service improvements/learning from continuous improvement cycles in conjunction with CAMHS management and commissioners and in line with the CYPS Service Plan.
· Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures (i.e. ROMS) within daily clinical practice.
· Contribute to early intervention and psycho-education work with families/carers.
· Provide highly specialist clinical supervision and teaching to a range of qualified and unqualified staff on a routine basis (including placements for students/profession specific trainees) to facilitate the development and consolidation of ASD/neurodiversity core skills and competencies within the workforce.
· Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities. This includes communicating highly complex clinical information within multi-agency settings and involves making difficult ethical and clinical judgements.
· Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.
· Ensure regular attendance at service wide meetings (including CPD opportunities).
· Work flexibly to provide ASD provision within a range of clinical and community settings dependent on client and service need. Situations may demand an unpredictable work pattern and difficult situations as well as the need to balance a range of complex and high risk clinical needs and presentations.
· Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting.
· Contribute to service wide clinical rotas as requested.
· Ensure sound knowledge and adherence of Trust policies and procedures as well CYPS relevant documents including the CAMHS Operational Policy, ASD Handbook (under development) and relevant Risk Registers. Have a good awareness of the current CYPS Service Plan, wider CYPS Standing Operating Procedures (SOP’s).
· Contribute to providing out of hours services if requested by CYPS Management.
· Change work base as requested by the Service Director.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, as accredited by the BPS
* Eligible for Chartered status & demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: HCPC & BPS
* Evidence of formal post graduate learning within a relevant CAMHS or ASC setting
* Masters level qualification or equivalent (including evidence of working towards this level)
Length and/or Nature of Experience
* Demonstrate extensive, post qualification experience of providing highly specialist and profession-based as well as evidence-based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting
* Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise and be able to take a lead role on the provision of a high quality specialist ASD assessment pathway including consultation, assessment and therapeutic intervention)
* Demonstrate extensive experience and highly specialist professional consultancy and clinical leadership regarding service delivery of ASD/neurodiversity related clinical practice. This will include experience of contributing to service development initiatives or providing a formal clinical leadership role within clinical practice
* Demonstrate extensive experience and highly specialist professional consultancy and training to partner agencies
* Be proficient in the manipulation of complex psychological test equipment for use in formal testing situations
* Experience of leading and developing outcome tools/clinical evaluation systems
* Substantial experience of delivering services in accordance to recognised therapeutic models
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
* Free car parking at many of our sites
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
* A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
* Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
* Recognition and long service awards
* Fast Track physiotherapy
* Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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