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Senior Clinical Psychologist- Child Development/Epilepsy

Band 8a

Main area Child Health Clinical Psychologist Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

Site Chesterfield Royal Hospital Town Chesterfield Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/08/2025 23:59

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Clinical Psychologist for our Child Development Psychology team with interest within Epilepsy to join our Child Health Department at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. As a member of a dedicated and supportive multi-disciplinary team, including Clinical Psychologists, Speech and language therapists, Paediatricians, and nurses you will have the support & supervision of colleagues from a variety of disciplines.

There is also an exciting opportunity to be involved in expanding and developing the post-diagnostic offer the service provides, with psychological intervention skills being a key part of this. Training and development would also be offered as identified.

The team has several options available for flexible and hybrid working, including regular homeworking with appropriate IT equipment and support.

For disabled applicants, suitable alternative arrangements may be agreed, if necessary .

Main duties of the job

You will be an active, autonomous member of a multi-disciplinary team providing specialist psychological services to children, adolescents, and families in North Derbyshire. Your role will include:

Providing specialist neuropsychological assessments and autism assessments for children and young people.

To work as part of the paediatric Epilepsy multidisciplinary team providing input and support as appropriate.

To provide intervention for children and families who are accessing support from the Epilepsy service.

To contribute to relevant training programmes and service developments.

Working for our organisation

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC .

We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.

We shall be happy to agree a relocation package for the successful candidate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

Person specification

Skills

• Knowledge of appropriate clinical models and approaches relevant to working with young people with Autism
• Experience of carrying out service evaluations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Skills in working with emotional and behavioural problems with children and families
• Knowledge of relevant NICE guidelines

Personal

• Ability to tolerate and manage highly distressing emotional issues
• Ability to manage and work with organisational stress and to effectively manage the stress of others
• Ability to engage in sustained mental effort involving tasks demanding intense concentration

Trust Values

• Proud to CARE

Experience

• Experience and knowledge of working with young people with learning disabilities/autism/neuro-development diagnoses/Epilepsy
• Expeience of carrying out complex psychological assessments with young people
• Writing concise psychological reports.
• To have worked therapeutically with young people and families
• Experience of delivering training to professionals and parents.
• Experience of working with other professionals as part of an assessment team
• Experience of supervising others

Qualifications

• Doctoral Qualification in Clinical Psychology
• Additional training post doctorate
• Training in a specific therapeutic approach

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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