Consultant Psychologist inKettering inKettering PUBLISHED 29 SEP 2024

We are looking for a compassionate, highly skilled and motivated Consultant Psychologist to work within the CYP ADHD & ASD multidisciplinary team. You have junior colleagues whom you will supervise and professionally lead. You will work closely with other senior colleagues to form part of the overall leadership of the team. While the team has a specialist remit, presentations have become more complex, so a broad range of experience would ideally place you to manage this job and specialist aspect of the role can be developed within the team if necessary.

You will also join a team of Consultant Psychologists working within Children’s services, and as such have robust ‘peer support’. This team meet at least once a week. Moreover, you will be supervised and professionally managed by an experience Consultant Psychologist/ Consultant Systemic Therapist, who is the Clinical director for Children’s services.

We recognise that the NHS context is challenging, but you very much would be joining a dedicated multidisciplinary team who are passionate about Children & Young peoples ADHD & ASD services. We strive to have close working relationships with operational colleagues so in your role we envisage you having a very close relationship with the relevant service manager.

We very much want to hear from you if you interested in working with a fantastic group of young people and their families with passionate colleagues alongside.

For the main duties of this role please refer back to the the job description attached for further information.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Gillian Nightall Job title: Clinical Director Email address:

Dr Hetal Acharya

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