Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist inCaerleon inCaerleon PUBLISHED 25 DEC 2023
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You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
We are excited to be advertising this lead role in our Child and Adolescent Learning Disabilities Service (CALDS). The CALDS team takes a multi-disciplinary approach to thinking holistically about the needs of children with a learning disability and their systems of support who are presenting with distress. The lead psychologist takes a key role in modelling and implementing psychological approaches to support through direct work with families, joint work, training and consultation. The postholder will also hold a strategic vision around reducing restrictive practices and liaison with other services to ensure a 'no wrong door' approach to support for young people. The role sits alongside a psychology and assistant psychology post within the CALDS team and senior psychology posts in our Early Years and Intensive Support services for children with additional needs. The post is also part of the Gwent Child and Family Psychology service, which is a large and vibrant team with many opportunities for learning and sharing good practice. The postholder will have a passion for working with children with learning disabilities and their families and carers and an enthusiasm for working towards cultural change in systems of support. If you are interested in making a difference for children with learning disabilities and those who care for them, we would love to hear from you.
The postholder will lead on promoting a psychological understanding of the difficulties faced by children and young people through direct work with children and young people and their families, through consultation and training and through promoting systemic shifts in cultural discourses around what it may mean to be labelled as having a 'learning disability'.
The successful candidate will also provide and engage in clinical supervision to support practice development, conduct and carry out research and audit on the provision of the service and play a key role in ongoing service development.
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
We are excited to be advertising this lead role in our Child and Adolescent Learning Disabilities Service (CALDS). The CALDS team takes a multi-disciplinary approach to thinking holistically about the needs of children with a learning disability and their systems of support who are presenting with distress. The lead psychologist takes a key role in modelling and implementing psychological approaches to support through direct work with families, joint work, training and consultation. The postholder will also hold a strategic vision around reducing restrictive practices and liaison with other services to ensure a 'no wrong door' approach to support for young people. The role sits alongside a psychology and assistant psychology post within the CALDS team and senior psychology posts in our Early Years and Intensive Support services for children with additional needs. The post is also part of the Gwent Child and Family Psychology service, which is a large and vibrant team with many opportunities for learning and sharing good practice. The postholder will have a passion for working with children with learning disabilities and their families and carers and an enthusiasm for working towards cultural change in systems of support. If you are interested in making a difference for children with learning disabilities and those who care for them, we would love to hear from you.
The postholder will lead on promoting a psychological understanding of the difficulties faced by children and young people through direct work with children and young people and their families, through consultation and training and through promoting systemic shifts in cultural discourses around what it may mean to be labelled as having a 'learning disability'.
The successful candidate will also provide and engage in clinical supervision to support practice development, conduct and carry out research and audit on the provision of the service and play a key role in ongoing service development.
Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply
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