Clinical Psychologist / Practitioner Psychologist

Job overview

We are looking to recruit two Clinical Psychologists / Practitioner Psychologists (1.8 WTE in total) to join our friendly and well-established Adult Community Learning Disability Service. These are 12-month fixed-term opportunities, providing maternity leave cover within the service.

You will work as part of the Psychology Team within a supportive multidisciplinary environment, providing psychological assessment and intervention to adults with learning disabilities. You will work both directly with individuals and collaboratively with families, carers, colleagues and partner agencies to help meet each person’s needs.

Our service has a strong commitment to multidisciplinary working and trauma-informed care, with a focus on delivering compassionate, person-centred support.

We are keen to support your professional development and will encourage you to develop your own areas of clinical interest. You will have access to CPD opportunities, professional support and opportunities to develop your skills and experience within learning disability services.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist, you will

• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for adults with learning disabilities, working with individuals, groups and their families or carers.
• Manage a designated caseload, including assessment and management of clinical risk, treatment planning and evaluation of outcomes.
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary team, contributing psychological perspectives through formulation, consultation, joint working and training.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information in a compassionate, accessible and person-centred way, adapting your approach to meet individual communication needs.
• Provide psychological advice, supervision and support to colleagues, students and other healthcare professionals.
• Support the delivery and evaluation of psychological interventions, including the use of routine outcome measures and service-user feedback.
• Contribute to clinical leadership, service development and continuous improvement alongside senior psychology colleagues and the wider team.
• Support effective caseload management, delegation and operational responsibilities where required.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records in accordance with Trust policies and professional standards.

Closing Date: 23rd November 2026

Shortlisting Date: 24th November 2026

Interview Date: TBC

Working for our organisation

• Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

• Increase mileage rates for > 4500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.
• We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible