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Clinical Psychologist
Job summary
We are excited to share this opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist (7 – 8a) to join our dynamic team. We are a progressive company, based in Kidderminster, running NHS services with a trauma-informed, holistic approach and have a committed approach to face-to-face assessments. Our belief is that families and individuals deserve our time and attention at this instrumental time in their lives to ensure that they get the very best outcome for them.
The successful candidate will be joining our strong, multi-disciplinary team based in Kidderminster, providing NHS and independent neurodiversity assessments and support across the lifespan in Herefordshire & Worcestershire (H&W) and the West Midlands.
We would love to hear from enthusiastic and experienced colleagues who are looking to play a key part in the development of our work to provide outstanding, neuro-affirming assessments and care for neurodivergent children and adults.
A key element of the role will be assessing, providing supervision, to support our growing Multi-Disciplinary team, including experienced colleagues from within Speech and Language, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Education, Psychology, and Social Work.
We encourage interest from candidates who are passionate about enhancing the lives of clients with neurodiverse traits.
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Psychologist, you will bring advanced skills to offer high-quality psychological input. This will include complex assessment, formulation, and diagnostic thinking, intervention, and consultation. You will support the development of integrated work across pathways to ensure consistent and uninterrupted experiences of care.
You will have the opportunity to develop your supervisory skills as part of this role, so you will have proven experience of working positively with inter-divisional colleagues.
As part of our collaborative ethos of leadership, you will be well-supported as you work together with colleagues to deliver a progressive and dynamic quality of care with clients, keeping them and their families at the forefront of everything that we do.
About us
The Family Psychologist is a multidisciplinary assessment and support clinic, providing a unique and varied mix of neurodiversity, mental health, and educational support across the Midlands and the UK.
As part of our close and supportive team, you will have opportunities for learning and development within a flexible and caring work environment.
Whilst we are an Independent Provider, we hold the NHS contract for Adult (16+) Autism Assessments as well as being a key Under 18’s Right to Choose provider for both Autism and ADHD within Herefordshire & Worcestershire. We are committed to the provision of accessible and inclusive services working to the NHS core values of: Working together for patients; Respect and dignity; Commitment to quality of care; Compassion; Improving lives: Everyone counts.
Beyond these values, we as a team are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment, in which individual strengths, needs, and circumstances are well supported and you will be encouraged to develop and thrive within your role.
You will be well supported by our divisional team leaders, in-house Consultant and Senior Clinical Psychologists, as well as robust clinical supervision. You will work as a central part of our strong multi-disciplinary team, as well as having access to excellent CPD opportunities.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be helping to deliver our NHS Adult Autism service as well as our NHS Under 18 Right to Choose offering. This is a dynamic role that has seen significant demand in line with the national trend. Resources are available when required to grow the service in line with any capacity restraints.
Our Adult Autism Pathway is well-established, and our team is committed to ensuring the individuals and families have the very best outcomes.
Our CYP Right to Choose Pathway is a newly established pathway within Hereford & Worcestershire. TFP are working with partners and stakeholders to continue to develop a Right to Choose service that these young people and their families can rely on. We are committed to ensuring the young person’s futures will not be prohibited or restricted by their neurodiverse traits and are passionate about promoting a neuro-affirming community.
You will be a qualified Clinical Psychologist with a passion for working with neurodiverse individuals and their families at all ages. You will have strong clinical skills, bringing a compassionate and supportive approach to join others in the team.
You will have the knowledge and skills in neurodiversity and mental health to undertake assessments and deliver evidence-based outcomes, as well as supporting others in this work.
In this role you will be supported by our Autism and ADHD leads, our Interventions and Safeguarding leads as well as the overarching support from our Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Managing Director.
You will understand the importance of collaborative working with the individual and extended family including carers and schools to ensure the right clinical decision is made for the individual. To ensure this is achieved you will liaise with our Interventions and Safeguarding leads where appropriate to ensure a trauma-informed approach is at the centre of everything we do.
You will be a reflective practitioner with strengths to bring to a multi-disciplinary team. You will have skills and knowledge to support team members through supervision and MDT meetings.
Our multidisciplinary team includes Assistant Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Teachers, Social Workers and Mental Health Practitioners/Nurses from a diverse range of backgrounds. This provides an opportunity to work in a team with a strong multidisciplinary ethos as well as collaborating with colleagues in other divisions and working in partnership with other agencies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent e.g. Master’s level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
- Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
- A passion for neurodiversity.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering effective, evidence-based, outcomes-informed psychological assessments with adults, children, young people and families, including risk assessment and risk management.
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including shared decision making and the use of both clinician and patient-rated outcome measures
- Experience of working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary services and across organisational boundaries
- Experience of working with a wide variety of adult and child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Experience of obtaining service user feedback and data to improve outcomes and services
- Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
- Experience of using an equality and diversity framework in clinical, supervisory, and leadership practice.
- Experience of initiating, chairing, attending, and contributing to multi-professional and interagency meetings.
- Experience of working as an autonomous individual, taking on responsibility, making decisions, and seeking support as needed.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation and share this with others including service users and professionals
- The ability to work as an autonomous clinician, make decisions under pressure, and seek support as appropriate.
- The ability to communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with adults, children and young people, parents, carers, and others as appropriate, conveying information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning assessment, clinical formulation, and treatment, at times during emotionally difficult situations.
- The ability to present complex, often sensitive information in a variety of formats, both written and verbal, in a professional, clear, and organised manner to the standards laid out by the Neurodiversity Leads and Clinical Director.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
The closing date is 21 January 2026
To apply, please visit NHS Jobs or send your CV and covering letter to careers@thefamilypsychologist.co.uk
We currently have no vacancies, but feel free to email your CV to careers@thefamilypsychologist.co.uk to register your interest in future opportunities with The Family Psychologist.
Divisional Lead – Autism – Specialist Clinical Psychologist
We are excited to share this opportunity for a specialist Clinical Psychologist to join our dynamic team as Autism Divisional Lead. We are a progressive company based in Kidderminster, delivering NHS services with a trauma-informed, holistic perspective and have a committed approach to face-to-face autism assessments. Our belief is that families and individuals deserve our time and attention at this instrumental time in their lives to ensure that they get the very best outcome for them.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the development of our strong, multi-disciplinary team based in Kidderminster, providing NHS and independent neurodiversity assessments and support across the lifespan in Herefordshire & Worcestershire and the West Midlands.
We would love to hear from enthusiastic and experienced colleagues who are looking to take on a leadership role and play a key part in the development of our work to provide outstanding trauma-informed neurodiversity assessments and care for neurodivergent children and adults. You will work collaboratively with our Neurodiversity Lead, Clinical Director and Operations Director.
A key element of the role will be supervision, consultation, and leadership skills, to support our growing multi-disciplinary team, including experienced colleagues from within Speech and Language, Nursing, Psychology and Social Work.
You will be leading our NHS Adult Autism service as well as our NHS U18 Right to Choose offering. This is a dynamic role which has seen significant demand in line with the national trend. Resources are available when required to grow the service in line with any capacity restraints.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
As divisional lead, you will work closely with our Clinical Director and other divisional leads to ensure our neurodiversity pathways run effectively and in the best interest of our clients and their families. As well as providing lead contributions to service development as a core part of our senior management team.
You will bring advanced skills to offer high-quality psychological input. This will include complex assessment, formulation and diagnostic thinking, intervention and consultation. You will support the development of integrated work across pathways to support consistent, uninterrupted experiences of care.
You will bring strong supervisory skills. You will have proven experience working positively with inter-divisional colleagues.
There will be CPD opportunities specific to your division and to further progress your leadership capabilities.
You will join a growing team of clinical leaders within our supportive and accepting culture. As part of our collaborative ethos of leadership, you will be well-supported as you work with colleagues to deliver a progressive and dynamic quality of care, with clients and their families at the forefront of everything that we do.
We encourage interest from candidates who are passionate about enhancing the lives of clients with neurodiverse traits.
There will be opportunities to be involved in ongoing service development and research to ensure that services are accessible and meet the needs of the communities we work with. As the provider of our local NHS pathway, we work closely with commissioners and stakeholders across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. As Neurodiversity Lead, liaison with these networks will be a key part of the role, offering an important opportunity to be at the forefront of the development of local policy and provision.
The role will also require you to:
- Maintain strict confidentiality of all clients and practice information.
- Adhere to GDPR, safeguarding, and information governance requirements.
- Follow all practice and employment policies and value acceptance, inclusivity, equality & diversity.
- Always comply with the practice health and safety policies by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents.
Person Specification:
Essential:
- A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent e.g. Master’s level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
- Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
- Post qualification training in supervision.
- Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in leadership or management.
- Post qualification assessment training relevant to adults, children and young people with neurodiverse traits.
- Experience of delivering effective evidence-based, outcomes-informed psychological assessments with adults, children, young people and families, including risk assessment and risk management.
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including shared decision making and the use of both clinician and patient boundaries.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of adult and child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of obtaining service user feedback and data to improve outcomes and services.
- Experience in teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
- Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
- Experience of using an equality and diversity framework in clinical, supervisory and leadership practice.
- Experience of initiating, chairing, attending and contributing to multi-professional and interagency meetings.
- Experience of working as an autonomous individual, taking on responsibility, making decisions and seeking support as needed.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision, undertaking appraisals, developing job plans, recruitment, managing performance, absence and staff development.
- Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation and share this with others including service users and professionals.
- The ability to work as an autonomous senior clinician, make decisions under pressure and seek support as appropriate.
- The ability to communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with adults, children and young people, parents, carers and others as appropriate, conveying information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning assessment, clinical formulation and treatment, at times during emotionally difficult situations and help your team to develop these skills.
- The ability to present complex, often sensitive information in a variety of formats, both written and verbal, in a professional, clear and organised manner, including public speaking to a range of audiences and ensure your team meets the standards laid out by the Clinical Director.
To apply for this role, please send your CV & a covering letter to: careers@thefamilypsychologist.co.uk
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