Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead

Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical LeadLocation: BarrySalary: £70,417 to £81,138 a year (FTE)Closes: 01/10/2024 Job summaryWe are currently recruiting for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with experience working with people with Autism Spectrum Conditions, to provide leadership and specialist clinical input in Beechwood College. Beechwood is a specialist residential education service providing person centred care and education for young people aged 16-25 with Autism Spectrum Conditions, learning disabilities and complex behavioural presentations.You will take a lead role in supporting and leading the MDT to deliver high quality services, through assessment and formulation to intervention and evaluation. As a senior clinician, you will also take a lead role in coordinating the overall clinical provision across the site, which varies according to individual need and to commissioned requirements.To be considered for this post, you must have post-qualification experience working in Autism and/or learning disability settings.You will have ideally received post-qualification training in positive behavioural support, have substantial experience and knowledge of multi-disciplinary clinical intervention for people with an Autism Spectrum Condition, and be competent in the use of modified evidence based psychological therapies for people with ASC related needs.Main duties of the jobTo provide strategic and clinical leadership to the MDT within Beechwood College and to ensure appropriate clinical governance of all clinical activities within the college, as delivered by all professional groups.To provide strategic and clinical leadership regarding psychological assessment and treatment delivery to psychologists and other members of the MDT who deliver psychological interventions at Beechwood College and if required other ICG Learning Disability ServicesTo develop, implement and evaluate, along with other staff qualified in the provision of Applied Behaviour Analysis/ positive behavioural support, a coherent and evidence based programme for the delivery of such interventions by the MDT.To develop systems within the organisation to ensure that positive approaches to challenging behaviour become embedded into the general functioning and culture of the organisation.To ensure that clinical input is integrated with educational delivery and is supportive of identified learning outcomes for young people within the service. To work closely with education staff to achieve this.To provide specialised psychological assessment and therapy to young people and adults which reflects relevant knowledge and understanding of Autistic Spectrum Disorders.Overview of your organisationEmploying over 1,600 people, Iris Care Group is the largest independent health and social care provider across the Southwest of England and South Wales. We provide innovative, effective, and forward-thinking care for adults with specialist mental healthcare needs.With over 90% of staff saying they enjoy their job; we are proud to have created environments where our staff feel rewarded and fulfilled.With an extensive clinical and therapies team, Iris Care Group is proud of the innovative clinical care that it provides. Our bespoke recovery models have been shown to encourage better outcomes for the people that we support, and our highly regarded restraint reduction programme, which has been running for more than 7 years, has dramatically decreased restraint incidents.