Clinical Psychologist
6 days ago
Job summary
Full-time Clinical Psychologist post for recruitment at Band 8a in North Hertfordshire.
We welcome applications from newly or recently qualified psychologists and will consider applications for a Band 7 - 8a Development Post for applicants with experience and interest in working with older people. We welcome applications from non-UK trained psychologists working towards fulfilling HCPC requirements to qualify as a clinical psychologist in the UK and who need experience in working with older people.
Applicants should be registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC or in a position to register in the near future, if they complete their training in 2024.
Main duties of the job
The psychologists in our well established Older People's Service have special interests in CBT, DBT, Systemic approaches and Neuropsychology. They are valued members of our specialist community multi-disciplinary teams, including a well-established Early Memory and Diagnosis Service.
This post involves delivering a range of assessments and interventions, including neuropsychological diagnostic assessments, cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapies and positive behavioural support for behaviours of concern in dementia. There will be opportunities to contribute to service developments and to develop your clinical leadership skills.
The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessments, psychological treatments and evidence-based interventions for older people, their families and carers accessing memory services and local community menta l health teams.
The post holder will provide support, development, supervision and guidance to other team members, as well as a similar consultation service to professionals within community health services, primary care and other agencies.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a high- quality specialist clinical psychology service for older people with mental health issues and to all adults with dementia in North of the county.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and support the governance of psychological practice within the North Herts MHSOP community mental health team.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by assistant psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To undertake specialised clinical work within the MHSOP Psychology service and with external agencies, which will include assessment, direct and indirect intervention, supervision, training and consultancy. To provide specialist knowledge and consultation to staff where appropriate and relevant.
Where required, to contribute specialist psychological skills and advice with regards to the design and implementation of strategic planning, organisational and service developments, staff training and support initiatives within the service and Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and to other professional organisations.
To utilise research and training skills and knowledge to support audit, policy and service development, research activity and other programmes within the service.
Person Specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION
Essential
Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology or equivalent. Registered as either a clinical/counselling psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Desirable
Additional post graduate training or qualification in a specific psychological therapy or Neuropsychology).
EXPERIENCE
Essential
Experience of specialist assessment and therapy with service users across a range of care settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups with presenting problems that reflect a range of clinical severity, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
Experience of working within older people in a clinical role. Direct experience of using therapy with older people Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of the application of psychological services in different cultural contexts.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
Skills in the use of complex assessment, therapy or intervention. Well developed skills in communicating effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychological services.
Desirable
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups ( people with cognitive impairment) High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of capacity and other legislation in relation to the client group.
OTHER
Essential
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework-
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