Clinical Psychologist in Keele inKeele PUBLISHED TUE 18 MAR 2025 Jump to job information section

This is a permanent post supporting the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), in the delivery of effective clinical services through assessment, intervention and ongoing support to children, young people and families accessing the service.

You will assess, formulate and deliver interventions and evaluate clinical outcomes. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team that includes Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Learning Disability Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Paediatrician, Assistant Psychologists, Clinical Assistants, Trainees and charity volunteers. The role also will involve close collaborative working with our Family Support team and other departments across the charity including Service Delivery, Applications and Volunteer Departments.

About Caudwell Children

Established in 2000, Caudwell Children is a national charity that works to transform the lives of disabled children and their families, enabling them to challenge the barriers they face throughout childhood by providing practical and emotional support. The Charity is going through an exciting period of growth having recently opened a new state-of-the-art facility for multi-disciplinary therapy programmes for childhood disability and research of neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, within the grounds of Keele University. It provides a state-of-the-art base for the Charity’s therapies and an environment where ground-breaking research can be undertaken, potentially changing the way some disabilities are treated, and affecting millions of people around the world. This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-moving Charity at a time when it will attract national and international attention.

Clinical Duties

• Contribute to the development and implementation of autism and neurodevelopmental assessment and intervention pathways including diagnostic assessment, formulation, recommendations, guidance, advice and workshop programmes for children and young people and those around them (e.g. families, teachers, health/social care workers).
• Work as part of the MDT in a specialist autism service for children and young people and their families –fostering strong collaborative relationships with colleagues to maximise effectiveness.
• Provide specialist psychological assessments of children referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, observations and interviews with family members and others involved in the child’s care.
• Provide specialist knowledge and skills in the assessment and diagnosis of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions where appropriate. Lead and contribute to MDT discussions around psychological and diagnostic formulation, taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the child or family group.
• Develop appropriate recommendations for ongoing support and intervention plans that promote the child’s development, wellbeing and family functioning.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, consultation, and training to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis, intervention planning and ongoing support.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information, such as assessment outcomes, diagnosis and recommendations, in a skilled and compassionate manner.
• Prepare comprehensive psychological reports and communicate the findings to others as required, for example parents, children and team colleagues, adapting communication to the needs of others as appropriate.
• Implement a range of evidence-based interventions, both for individuals and groups, including children, young people, carers, families, and staff from other settings as required.
• Contribute to risk assessment and developing risk management plans, including providing consultation to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• Coordinate, where appropriate, the assessment and intervention plans for children and young people, taking responsibility for planning and reviewing progress with children, their carers, referring agents and others involved in their network of care.
• Develop and deliver training sessions and workshops to children, young people, families and staff/professionals in other settings.
  
  

Teaching, Training And Supervision

• Receive regular clinical supervision from a suitably qualified Registered Psychologist.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programs, as appropriate – applying and disseminating knowledge gained to improve practice.
• Contribute to professional post-graduate teaching and training of others as required.
• Provide clinical supervision, and where appropriate line management oversight, for Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Psychologists and other professionals as delegated.
• Provide advice, consultation and training to staff across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
  
  

Quality Of Care

• Ensure the effective delivery and quality of care standards for the service, in accordance with all relevant national, professional and local policies and regulatory requirements from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
• Advocate for the involvement of children and families, where appropriate, in decisions made about them including wider service development and future program planning and delivery.
• At all times to afford children, families and other stakeholders the dignity and respect to which they are entitled and, in particular, to recognise any communication needs and special requirements associated with an individual’s identity, race, culture or religion – with full regard to the organisations Equality and Diversity Policy and relevant statutory/regulatory guidelines.
• Ensure adherence to clinical governance requirements, contributing to governance procedures as required to support continuous service improvement.
• Confidentiality and data protection regarding all per