Specialist Clinical Psychologist

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust


Date: 1 week ago
City: Derby
Contract type: Full time
Are you looking for a new challenge?

Would you like to join a friendly, compassionate and ambitious team, committed to improving the lives of children and young people and their families with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in Derbyshire and Derby City? Our teams aim is to build a brighter future for the young people we work with.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a forward thinking creative team who are passionate about their work and supporting one another . We would love to hear from individuals who may be newly qualified or have experience and share our passion and values and desire to continually improve the service we provide.

We are fortunate that our trust is committed to continued professional development and training opportunities. Some of our clinicians have specialist interests in OCD, ARFID's, Girls with ASD, Differential Diagnosis, Compassion Focused Therapy, ACT and many other areas.

We are a Uni-disciplinary team and have additional specialist teams including Paediatric Psychology, Children with an Intellectual Disability, Positive Behaviour Support and a Youth Offending Service.

We also work closely with other professional groups. We have close ties with the Trent Clinical Psychology Course and supervise trainees and CAP's regularly.

To provide a high quality clinical psychology service to children, adolescents and their families in a specialist ASD team, delivering both specialist diagnostic assessments and interventions.

Working as part of a team and also autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust's policies and procedures.

In addition the role would involve advice and consultation on client's psychological assessment and care to non psychological colleagues and to other non professional carer's, to provide teaching and supervision to other psychologists including Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologist's and Graduate Clinical Associates. Undertaking evidence based clinical practice, and in service development, service evaluation and clinical audit.

Closing date of applications: 23 December 2024

Interview date: 7 January 2025

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

  • Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
  • On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
  • Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts

  • We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
  • We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
  • An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
  • Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
  • Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
  • We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
  • We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
  • UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Claire Millward Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01332 785542

Dr Claire Millward on 01332 785542.

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