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At Bright Futures, we champion the potential of every person with autism and a learning disability, believing wholeheartedly in their ability to thrive and lead the most fulfilling lives. We’re looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to provide specialist psychological leadership across our care and education services for children and adults with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and embed a trauma-informed, psychologically informed culture across the organisation – helping teams understand the impact of trauma, build positive relationships, reduce restrictive practices and create environments where people can thrive.

You’ll combine specialist clinical practice with organisational leadership, providing assessment and intervention alongside consultation, training, coaching, reflective practice and service development. You’ll work closely with individuals, families, support teams, education colleagues, managers and our wider multidisciplinary teams to turn psychological principles into meaningful, everyday practice.

What you’ll bring

You’ll be a confident and compassionate Clinical Psychologist with experience of working with people with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs. You’ll bring strong expertise in trauma-informed practice, psychological formulation and evidence-based intervention, alongside the ability to influence, coach and inspire teams.

You’ll be passionate about improving quality of life, promoting independence and emotional wellbeing, and supporting people to achieve their goals.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Lead the development of trauma-informed practice across care and education.

• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.

• Develop the confidence and capability of our teams through training, coaching and reflective practice.

• Work alongside our Specialist Support Team and wider multidisciplinary professionals.

• Influence service development, quality improvement and clinical governance.

Interview date: Tuesday 17th November

At Bright Futures, we make a real difference in the lives of young people and adults with autism, special educational and complex needs. Through our dedicated and expert team, we deliver outstanding care and education.

Our team are here because they are passionate about improving the lives of the individuals we support. Our employees are the key to the exceptional quality of care and education that we provide. It’s why we invest in our people, fostering their personal and professional growth to ensure they can excel and develop in their journey with us.

We can’t promise that it will always be easy, but we can promise here at Bright Futures it will be worthwhile. You’ll be making a difference to the lives of the people we support, celebrating their achievements, and providing unwavering support during challenging times. The feedback from our people is that the good days will always outshine; especially with the backing and support of the whole team.

No matter your role, everything we do is focused around our unwavering commitment to the people we support. Our aim is that every individual we support thrives and socially develops as active members of their local community.