Consultant Psychologist in Learning Disabilities

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Bolton community learning disability team in our consultant psychologist role. The successful applicant will join our integrated learning disability team; a team of health and social care professionals who work jointly to provide assessment, support and health or social care interventions to adults with learning disabilities.

The post holder will offer psychological assessments, formulations and treatment plans for adults with learning disabilities who may have highly complex psychological needs. The post holder will have professional and managerial responsibility for the specialist psychology resource and will lead on the strategic development of psychology services within the community learning disability team.

The post holder will have the skills required to coordinate the delivery of highly specialised psychological assessments, therapeutic interventions and risk assessments with individuals who may have highly complex psychological needs. These needs may include autism spectrum conditions, mental health needs and/or distress behaviours. You will be able to interpret complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self report measures, rating scales, observations and semi structured interviews with individuals, their carers or family members. As professional lead, you will have the management and leadership skills required to support the team to delivery high quality service, meeting established key performance indicators and with a focus on continued service development. You will offer clinical supervision to clinical or counselling psychologists within the team and oversee the delivery of supervision to psychology assistants.

The community learning disability team is a friendly team of health and social care professionals, working in partnership to deliver the highest quality health and social care interventions for adults with learning disabilities.

The team is hosted by Bolton council and based at Farnworth Town Hall. Health workers maintain NHS employment and retain all the benefits of working for the Foundation Trust. We aim to provide high quality support to our workforce, valuing regular, quality supervisions, annual appraisals with a continued focus on professional development.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Linda Ashworth Job title: Learning Disability Clinical Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01204 337952

We welcome informal visits to the team prior to application/interview. Please contact Linda Ashworth to arrange. Alternately, please contact us via telephone if you require any additional information.