About this role
Job summary Make a Lasting Difference for People with Learning Disabilities This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and compassionate psychologist to join our Learning Disability Service, providing highly specialist psychological support to individuals with complex needs. In this rewarding role, you will use your expertise to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities, while supporting families, carers, and professionals to deliver the very best care and outcomes. As a Highly Specialist Psychologist, you will play a key role in delivering and developing specialist psychology services for adults with learning disabilities. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will apply advanced psychological knowledge and clinical expertise to assess, formulate, and deliver interventions for individuals presenting with highly complex needs.You will also provide consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to colleagues and partner professionals, helping to ensure psychologically informed and evidence-based approaches are embedded throughout the service. Location: The Orbital Shopping Park, Swindon Hours: 22.5 hours per weekPackage DescriptionAs a Clinical Psychologist, you will be part of our valued team in at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:£57,528 - £64,750
Main duties of the job This role is ideal for a seasoned psychologist passionate about making a significant difference in the lives of people with learning disabilities. You will be providing psychological support to those with complex needs, contributing to high-quality care alongside families, carers, and professionals. You will be integral in delivering advanced psychological services in a multidisciplinary environment, applying psychological expertise in assessments and interventions. Additionally, you will offer consultation, and clinical supervision, and contribute to embedding evidence-based practices within the service. Located at The Orbital Shopping Park in Swindon, this permanent part-time role offers 22.5 hours per week, with package benefits like membership discounts, direct access to wages, and career development opportunities. The organisation fosters an open culture with innovation funding, aiming to continuously improve service quality, with existing commitments to inclusivity and equal opportunities.
About us HCRG Care Group is a leading community health and care services provider in the UK, established in 2006. This organisation works collaboratively with health and care commissioners and communities to transform health services, focusing on enhanced user experiences, efficiency, and outcomes. HCRG Care Group delivers services in various areas including adult and children's community health services, primary care, sexual health, urgent care, dermatology, MSK services, adult social care, and wellbeing services. The company values commitment to quality and inclusive services, ensuring accessibility for people of diverse backgrounds and needs, with a focus on changing lives through health and care transformation. Upholding high standards, it maintains a significant portion of its services having received 'good' or 'outstanding' ratings from the Care Quality Commission. Moreover, the company supports over half a million people annually across England, all driven by its values of care, thought, and action.
Job description Job responsibilities Package Description:
Make a Lasting Difference for People with Learning Disabilities
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and compassionate psychologist to join our Learning Disability Service, providing highly specialist psychological support to individuals with complex needs. In this rewarding role, you will use your expertise to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities, while supporting families, carers, and professionals to deliver the very best care and outcomes.
As a Highly Specialist Psychologist, you will play a key role in delivering and developing specialist psychology services for adults with learning disabilities. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will apply advanced psychological knowledge and clinical expertise to assess, formulate, and deliver interventions for individuals presenting with highly complex needs.
You will also provide consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to colleagues and partner professionals, helping to ensure psychologically informed and evidence-based approaches are embedded throughout the service.
Location:The Orbital Shopping Park, SwindonHours: 22.5 hours per week
Package DescriptionAs a Clinical Psychologist, you will be part of our valued team in at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£57,528 - £64,750 (Band 8a AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality CommissionHow You'll Make an Impact Deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for adults with learning disabilities, supporting individuals with complex psychological, emotional and behavioural needs. Provide person-centred psychological support to individuals, families and carers across a range of settings, including home, work, educational and community environments. Use advanced communication and therapeutic skills to engage people with communication difficulties, limited understanding, or those who may be distressed, anxious or reluctant to participate in intervention. Lead on supporting service users whose behaviours may challenge, developing effective strategies that promote wellbeing, independence and quality of life. Work within a Positive Behaviour Support framework, applying psychological theory and behavioural approaches to develop robust support plans and risk management strategies. Manage and prioritise a varied caseload, using clinical judgement to balance risk, complexity and service demands effectively. Coordinate and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies to deliver integrated care and ensure interventions remain responsive to changing needs. Develop and deliver training, consultation and specialist advice to carers, families, healthcare professionals and partner organisations to promote psychologically informed practice. Contribute to service development, clinical audit, research and quality improvement initiatives, helping to enhance outcomes and share best practice across the Learning Disability Service. Maintain accurate clinical records and utilise digital systems effectively, ensuring documentation meets professional, legal and organisational standards.What We're Looking ForEssential
Qualifications: DClinPsy (or equivalent), current HCPC registration, and eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist status. Experience: Psychological assessment and intervention in complex cases; experience working with people with learning disabilities; experience providing consultation. Specialist Knowledge: Advanced psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention skills; Positive Behaviour Support; current best practice for people with learning disabilities; knowledge of research methods and design. Professional Skills: Strong communication, emotional resilience, and ability to manage complex and challenging situations. Practical Requirements: Ability to balance responsibilities across teams and maintain accurate electronic records.Desirable
Significant post-qualification experience and ongoing CPD. Experience providing clinical supervision to trainee and qualified psychologists. Involvement in service development, quality improvement, research, or project work. Experience in a leadership or senior clinical role. Specialist interest within the field of learning disabilities. Knowledge of Liquidlogic and/or SystmOne.Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and requirements.
About the CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes.We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Qualifications: DClinPsy (or equivalent), current HCPC registration, and eligibility for Chartered Clinical Psychologist status.
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.
UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name HCRG Care Group
Address HCRG Care Group
Swindon
SN25 4AN
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)