Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

The Children and Young People Autism team in Rugeley has a wonderful opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join them working 22.5 hours per week

In consultation with the Service Leads for the CYP Autism Service you will provide a highly specialist psychology service to Children and Young People with Autism, or possible autism, diagnoses in South Staffordshire.

In the role you will be responsible for providing highly specialist psychological input across three main areas:

• Autism assessment
• Highly specialist advice, support & intervention to CYP with a diagnosis of autism & their families.
• Highly specialist advice, support & intervention to young people (19-25) with an existing diagnosis of autism & an Education & Health Care Plan.

This role will incorporate highly complex psychological assessments leading to psychological formulations of distress; interpretation and opinion; forming judgements to inform service provision and providing necessary psychological interventions.

You will be responsible for the clinical supervision of less experienced psychologists & assistant psychologists, supervising & supporting the psychological assessment & therapy provided by other clinical members of the CYP Autism service who provide psychologically based care & intervention. To include the provision of training placements for Psychologists in Training as required, following gaining the necessary post-qualification requirements (STAR training, requisite post-qualification experience).

Main duties of the job

• This role involves highly complex assessments leading to psychological formulations, development of care plans, the delivery of interventions to this population and use of outcome measures to evaluate service effectiveness.
• To provide highly specialist diagnostic assessments of children and young people to include standardised assessments such as ADOS 2 and ADI-R.
• To work as a member of a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT). The psychologist will present complex assessment information in MDT meetings and work with colleagues in MDT to agree whether referred children and young people meet diagnostic criteria for autism.
• The role will also entail offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
• There will be an opportunity to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
• You will be required to work in clinic and community settings such as CAMHS clinic bases, nurseries, schools and children’s centres and with children and parents in their own homes.