Senior Clinical Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a passionate and dynamic HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist (1.0 wte) to join our West Sussex children and young people’s Neurodevelopmental Pathway. The post is based at New Park House, Horsham but covers West Sussex, including Chichester and Worthing. The CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway is a CAMHS specialist service that offers diagnostic assessments for autistic spectrum condition for young people aged 11 years+ and ADHD for young people aged 6 years up to 18 years. We are a strengths based service and take an evidenced-based and neurodivergent positive approach to the work we do.

The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist with previous knowledge and experience of providing specialist neurodevelopmental assessments and working with complex needs.

The successful candidate will be joining a specialist multi-disciplinary team and will work closely with the clinical service manager. In addition to conducting neurodevelopmental and psychometric assessments you will also participate in consultation and training and provide clinical/professional supervision to assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and other clinicians in the team. You will also participate in systematic clinical governance and contribute to audit, service development and quality improvement.

We offer and support hybrid and flexible working, we require staff to be on site for 60% of their working week.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service.

To be responsible for high quality assessments and managing assessment clinics. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload.

To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.

To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate.

To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists

To complete assessments of those referred to the service and outcome this in a timely manner in line with code of Conduct

To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision as appropriate.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services.

To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. ?? A
• Professionally registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Demonstrate specialist experience gained post-qualification of working as an applied psychologist
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.

Skills

Essential

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulation and management
• Ability to plan and manage a complex work load with competing demands.
• IT skills – ability to use a computer and input information to the Trust patient information record

Approach and Values

Essential

• Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
• Ability to travel across sites

Closing Date: 30 August 2026