The post holder will be welcomed as a member of the friendly Community Learning Disability team in North Tyneside. CLDT provides a multi-disciplinary/agency service to both adults and children with learning disabilities living in North Tyneside. The Psychology Service functions as a secondary care service within the broader team and delivers a full range of assessment and treatment services to clients, families and carers in a wide range of community settings.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Please note: for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval from your current manager and have completed documentation required beforehand (see secondment policy) , as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.
To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and consultation therapy service to people with a learning disability and their families and carers in the area serviced by North Tyneside Community Learning Disability Team. This post will focus on the needs of both adults and children with additional mental health/challenging behaviour issues.
To undertake research and audit for policy and service development within the area served by the team.
To manage the provision of own and other psychologists’ day to day workloads within Community Learning Disabilities Team.
To offer expertise to Learning disability services, by providing psychological advice, consultation, train and consultation to members of the multidisciplinary team.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
The post-holder will work autonomously within the BPS Good Practice guidelines and the overall framework of the teams’ policies and procedures. They will hold a caseload, be responsible for supervising more junior psychology staff and trainees on placement. They will also be responsible for psychology test equipment and materials held within the team

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