Clinical Psychologist with CAAAS
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cheltenham, GL53 9DZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9327-25-0595 |
Summary
Provide and coordinate highly specialist Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessment, formulation and differential diagnosis clinical provision for children and young people up to their 18th birthday. The initial service development will focus on preschool and primary school aged children. Provision will be in accordance to the application of a range of profession specific models of clinical practice. Undertake a clinical leadership role in providing and coordinating highly specialist Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessments, formulations and differential diagnosis clinical provision for children and young people up to their 18th birthday. The initial service development will focus on preschool and primary school aged children. Undertake clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex needs, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required. Undertake a clinical leadership role and other management related tasks regarding planning, delivering and evaluating service improvements/learning from continuous improvement cycles in conjunction with CAMHS management and commissioners and in line with the CYPS Service Plan. Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures (i.e. ROMS) within daily clinical practice. Contribute to early intervention and psycho-education work with families/carers. Provide highly specialist clinical supervision and teaching to a range of qualified and unqualified staff on a routine basis (including placements for students/profession specific trainees) to facilitate the development and consolidation of ASD/neurodiversity core skills and competencies within the workforce. Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities. This includes communicating highly complex clinical information within multi-agency settings and involves making difficult ethical and clinical judgements. Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies. Ensure regular attendance at service wide meetings (including CPD opportunities). Work flexibly to provide ASD provision within a range of clinical and community settings dependent on client and service need. Situations may demand an unpredictable work pattern and difficult situations as well as the need to balance a range of complex and high risk clinical needs and presentations. Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting. Contribute to service wide clinical rotas as requested. Ensure sound knowledge and adherence of Trust policies and procedures as well CYPS relevant documents including the CAMHS Operational Policy, ASD Handbook (under development) and relevant Risk Registers. Have a good awareness of the current CYPS Service Plan, wider CYPS Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs). Contribute to providing out of hours services if requested by CYPS Management. Change work base as requested by the Service Director.