Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist to work within our Children’s Learning Disability service across Wrexham and Flintshire.

The service works to support the health needs of children and young people with additional learning needs aged 0-18 years and their families and carers.The team consists of learning disability and paediatric nurses, support workers and clinical psychologists and works closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team of paediatricians, psychiatrists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and dietitians.

Under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, you will be involved in supporting psychological assessment, formulation and adapted psychological interventions to children, young people, and their families who are experiencing psychological distress and who may present with behaviours of concern to communicate their needs.

There will be opportunities to develop your skills in audit and clinical research and support various service development projects whilst continuing your professional development. We have excellent links with the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

To assist in the provision of a psychological service to clients within the specialty under the direction of the supervising clinical psychologist.

To be responsible for the planning and prioritisation of own workload and activities following the direction and guidelines given by the supervising clinical psychologist.

To undertake assessments of clients and implement programmes of care or intervention following guidance from the supervising clinical psychologist.

To undertake research activities as required and directed by the supervising clinical psychologist.

To work within guidelines given by the supervising clinical psychologist.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree in psychology / An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology.
  • Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working psychologically with people with physical or mental health difficulties, and/or learning or developmental disabilities.
  • Experience of administering psychometric assessments.
  • Experience of working as part of a mental health and/or learning disability multi-disciplinary team.

Desirable

  • Experience of undertaking psychological assessment and intervention
  • Experience of database management and clinical audit

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to accept and use clinical supervision appropriately and effectively
  • Ability to work independently, and to accept and use clinical supervision appropriately and effectively
  • Good communication and organisational skills, including the ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive; good writing, numerical and verbal skills, computer literate
  • Sensitive to other’s needs

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 8 November 2026

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