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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust are looking to recruit a Clinical Psychologist to work with older people with complex mental health difficulties.
Within this role, you will be working within the community mental health team. The service provides care to older people with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, personality disorder and psychosis, as well as for people with dementia and their carers. The two days in the inpatient unit will include assessment and therapy and also assisting in an exciting training initiative to upskill the inpatient staff team.
Main Duties of the Job
The responsibilities will include the provision of psychological assessment (including neuropsychology) and therapy to older people and their carers in community, clinic, and an inpatient setting. You will be a source of advice to the multi-disciplinary team on psychological issues and offer consultation and advice to other mental health and physical health professionals. Supervision of a clinical psychology trainee and contribution to service development will also be required for candidates at 8a level. Candidates who have an interest in neuropsychology will have an opportunity to develop these skills further. Job Responsibilities
To provide comprehensive highly specialist psychological assessments and treatments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex, contentious and/or sensitive data from a variety of sources including neuropsychological tests, psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. The post-holder will also be required to administer a wide range of highly complex neuropsychological tests that require the manipulation of materials at a high level of speed and accuracy. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To formulate and implement highly complex plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework (psychological formulation) of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of older peoples care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individual clients, carers, families and groups. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. The post-holder will be required to work with service users in situations that may be highly antagonistic, abusive and hostile. He/she will be required to communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, highly sensitive and/or highly contentious information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care. Person Specification
Experience
Essential In-depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings. Qualifications
Essential DClinPsy or DCounsPsy including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. HCPC Registration.
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The responsibilities will include the provision of psychological assessment (including neuropsychology) and therapy to older people and their carers in community, clinic, and an inpatient setting. You will be a source of advice to the multi-disciplinary team on psychological issues and offer consultation and advice to other mental health and physical health professionals. Supervision of a clinical psychology trainee and contribution to service development will also be required for candidates at 8a level. Candidates who have an interest in neuropsychology will have an opportunity to develop these skills further. Job Responsibilities
To provide comprehensive highly specialist psychological assessments and treatments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex, contentious and/or sensitive data from a variety of sources including neuropsychological tests, psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. The post-holder will also be required to administer a wide range of highly complex neuropsychological tests that require the manipulation of materials at a high level of speed and accuracy. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To formulate and implement highly complex plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework (psychological formulation) of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of older peoples care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individual clients, carers, families and groups. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. The post-holder will be required to work with service users in situations that may be highly antagonistic, abusive and hostile. He/she will be required to communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, highly sensitive and/or highly contentious information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care. Person Specification
Experience
Essential In-depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings. Qualifications
Essential DClinPsy or DCounsPsy including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. HCPC Registration.
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