Learning Disabilities - Band 8a/b Psychologist

Band 8a Birmingham, West Midlands Full-Time or Part-Time Considered Competitive NHS Agency Rate Pulse Mental Health is currently recruiting for a Locum Psychologist to join a specialist 0–19 Learning Disabilities and Neurodevelopmental Service in Birmingham, West Midlands. The service supports children and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities, mental health difficulties, behaviours that challenge, and a range of neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism and ADHD. This is an excellent opportunity to join a specialist NHS multidisciplinary team working with young people who present with complex and often overlapping needs. Many children and young people supported by the service are awaiting formal diagnosis and require comprehensive psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention. You will play an important role in supporting young people, families, carers, and professionals to improve outcomes and enhance quality of life. The service offers a varied and rewarding caseload, a supportive team environment, and the opportunity to make a genuine difference to children and young people across Birmingham. Responsibilities As a Locum Psychologist, you will: Undertake specialist psychological assessments for children and young people aged 0–19 years presenting with learning disabilities, mental health difficulties, and neurodevelopmental conditions. Develop formulations to understand complex presentations and inform care planning and intervention. Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions tailored to individual needs. Support children and young people who present with behaviours that challenge and co-occurring mental health needs. Work collaboratively with families, carers, schools, social care teams, and other professionals involved in care. Provide consultation and psychological advice to multidisciplinary colleagues. Contribute to safeguarding, risk assessment, and risk management processes. Maintain accurate and timely clinical

A secure healthcare service is seeking to recruit a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the team within a learning disability ward. This is a full-time role of 37.5 hours per week. The service is located in a rural area and provides specialist care for individuals with learning disabilities, mental health needs, behaviors that challenge, or offending behaviors. The setting includes low secure beds and a newly opened locked rehabilitation service. What you’ll be doing You will join a compassionate team committed to patient wellbeing. The service takes a personalised, therapeutic approach to help individuals progress with confidence toward a healthier future. As a Consultant Psychiatrist, your responsibilities will include: Providing expert clinical care as a Responsible Clinician, supported by an on-site senior management team. Assisting qualified staff with assessments and the implementation of individual care plans. Undertaking routine clinical tasks and activities delegated to support patient dignity, wellbeing, and recovery. Managing complex cases within learning disability psychiatry. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. Being supported by dedicated administrative staff and having access to flexible or remote working options. Participating in the non-residential second on-call rota (low contact rate). Further details can be found in the job description. What you’ll bring to the role The role is rewarding and varied, requiring resilience and empathy. No two days are the same. The ideal candidate will: Hold a CCT or CESR in Psychiatry of Learning Disability. Have Approved Clinician status. Demonstrate strong leadership abilities and a compassionate, patient-centred approach. Have experience managing complex clinical presentations in this population. Understand recovery-focused care, positive risk-taking, and appropriate use of restrictive practices. Be able to work collaboratively within a well-established MDT. Informal enquiries can be made via th

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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Who We Are: The Machine Learning Platform team at Reddit is a high-impact team that owns the infrastructure that powers recommendations, content discovery, user and content quantification, while directly impacting other teams such as Growth, Ads, Feeds, and Core Machine Learning teams. What You’ll Do: As a Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead development of a platform for large scale ML models at Reddit. Design end-to-end model lifecycle patterns (MLOps) to boost velocity of development for ML engineers, including data preparation, model management, experiment tracking, and more Zero-to-one development and support of a graph ML codebase and platform that abstracts away common patterns and enables greater model scalability and iteration Collaborate with ML engineers on performance tuning, including improving model training time, efficiency, and GPU training costs in a large, distributed ML training environment Optimize batch data processing within a data warehouse and with tools such as Apache Beam, Apache Spark, Ray Data, and more Architect pipelines to build and maintain massive graph data structures on the order of billions of nodes and tens of billions of edges Who You Might Be: 5+ years of experience in ML infrastructure, including model training and model deployments Hands-on experience with ML optimization, including memory and GPU profiling Deep experience with cloud-based technologies for supporting an ML platform, including tools like GCP BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, infrastructure-as-code

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . At Reddit, machine learning sits at the heart of how millions of people discover, connect, and engage with the world’s largest collection of human conversations. From powering personalized recommendations and search to optimizing advertising systems and marketplace dynamics, our ML engineers tackle some of the most interesting and impactful problems in large-scale applied machine learning. We hire Machine Learning Engineers across both our Consumer and Ads organizations, giving you the opportunity to work on a wide range of high-impact problems across the Reddit ecosystem. We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers who are excited to build systems end-to-end, from research and modeling to production deployment, — and who want to help shape the future of discovery, relevance, and monetization at Reddit. If you love working on complex, real-world ML problems at massive scale, this role is for you. What You’ll Work On As a Machine Learning Engineer at Reddit, you will design and build production ML systems that power core experiences across the platform, including: Personalized recommendations, search, and ranking systems that help users discover the most relevant content and communities Intelligent advertising systems including ranking, bidding, measurement, and optimization Content, Advertisers, and User understanding, from building foundational content/user representations to deriving insightful signals Large-scale machine learning pipelines, model serving infrastructure, and real-time decision systems Applied AI and

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . At Reddit, machine learning sits at the heart of how millions of people discover, connect, and engage with the world’s largest collection of human conversations. From powering personalized recommendations and search to optimizing advertising systems and marketplace dynamics, our ML engineers tackle some of the most interesting and impactful problems in large-scale applied machine learning. We are hiring Machine Learning Engineers across our Consumer Engineering organization, giving you the opportunity to work on a wide range of high-impact problems across the Consumer ecosystem. We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers who are excited to build systems end-to-end, from research and modeling to production deployment, and who want to help shape the future of discovery, relevance, and monetization at Reddit. If you love working on complex, real-world ML problems at massive scale, this role is for you. What You’ll Work On We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help drive the next generation of Reddit’s ML ecosystem across recommendations, search, messaging, and foundational AI systems. You will lead high-impact initiatives from ideation to production, shaping both technical strategy and product direction across multiple ML domains. This is a highly cross-functional role partnering with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to deliver meaningful user and business impact. This role sits at the intersection of: Relevance & recommendation systems (content, search, notifications) AI-powered discove