Consultant Clinical Psychologist

£76,965.00 to £88,682.00 per year, £76965.00 - £88682.00 a year

Contract Type:

Contract

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

28/03/2026

To provide clinical leadership to psychologists and psychological professionals working within the Team to ensure the provision of a high quality psychological services to adolescent inpatients with complex mental health conditions.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for governance of psychological and therapeutic practice within the Service.

To provide professional appraisal and the identification of CPD needs for psychological professions within the Service.

To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of psychologists and therapists working within the Service.

To take the lead for workforce planning in and related recruitment and staff professional development activities within but not limited within the Service.

To contribute to expansion of the workforce through the development of new roles within the psychological professions within the Service.

Responsible for the highly specialist psychological assessment and care-planning of adolescent inpatients with highly complex mental health conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.

Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client.

Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.

Undertakes complex risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high risks inherent in the client group.

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