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This post offers an exciting opportunity for a dynamic senior psychologist within the  Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Community Learning Disability Team, part of the wider North Yorkshire, York & Selby Learning Disability Service. The service consists of a supportive multidisciplinary team based at Eastfield Clinic, Scarborough, which offers specialist health services to adult service users who live with a learning disability, their families, and carers, and works closely with statutory agencies/ care providers. 

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. The vacancy is open to an existing Band 8A psychologist or an experienced Band 7  psychologist wishing to progress in their career.

The post offers many exciting  developmental and creative opportunities.

The post holder will have a key role in providing psychological assessments, formulations, and interventions to service users, their families, carers, and staff teams. This may be through direct therapeutic support using various adapted psychological approaches or indirect work with a service user’s support system using psychologically informed thinking.

An additional element to this role is offering neuropsychological assessments to service users, alongside reflective practice, consultation, and supervision. An interest in working with Trauma Informed Care approaches would be welcomed. 

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Applicants should ideally have experience in working within Learning Disability services and show strong patient-centred values. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, motivated, and demonstrate a commitment to delivering excellent health care and evidence-based practice. You will be working alongside a supportive team and opportunities to develop special interests and co-work will be encouraged. 

In addition, the service is keen to develop close links with all other psychology specialisms across the trust. 

In addition, the post holder will have a valued role in the team’s collective leadership 
group, alongside opportunities for research and service development. Our service 
has strong links with the Doctoral Clinical and Counselling Psychology Programmes 
at Teesside, Hull, and York St Johns Universities. The post holder will be involved in 
offering trainee placements and University teaching. There are excellent 
opportunities for peer support/ supervision, CPD, training, research, and audit within 
the wider trust and psychological professions network.
We are happy to discuss flexible working. Opportunities to work from home where 
appropriate, are very much supported if wanted by the post holder. We are also very 
keen to support practitioners obtain further professional training (e.g., EMDR; Flash 
EMDR; CAT; PBS; Systemic Family Therapy, etc). You will be working in an area of 
natural beauty across the North Yorkshire coast and North York Moors. Our trust is 
also invested in staff wellbeing opportunities, which is very much supported by the 
team.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time.

Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective leadership team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).

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 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 Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Please 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).  Your current immigration status will not be considered as part of the shortlisting or interview process.

Please note that not everyone needs a ‘Skilled Worker’ visa. 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.

We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note: if the job you are applying for does not meet the eligibility criteria above, we will be unable to offer you sponsorship and you will need to explore whether you may be eligible to apply for an alternative immigration route which will secure your right to work in the UK before you apply.  If you are in the UK already on a visa, please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.