Employer: Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Ashmore House
Town: Ashington
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/11/2024 23:59
Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 8a
We are delighted you are considering coming to work with us at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW).
We are on a journey to make the Trust an inclusive employer, representative of the community we serve. We want more of our community to consider applying for jobs with us.
We offer flexible working and various benefits, such as lease cars, childcare schemes, staff discounts, season tickets for travel, and a cycle to work scheme.
Job overview
We wish to recruit an experienced, creative, and enthusiastic Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Older Adult Pathway in Northumberland. This post will largely be based at Ashmore House in Ashington, covering South Central Northumberland, with flexibility to pick up cases as required across other areas within Northumberland.
The person appointed will be working across the Community Treatment Team and the Northumberland Memory Service, providing psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment for older adult clients and families experiencing a variety of complex mental health difficulties. Additionally, they will provide supervision and support to members of the Community Treatment Team.
Main duties of the job
A substantive part of this post will be as part of the Northumberland Memory Service, providing detailed and comprehensive neuropsychological assessments and reports as part of the diagnostic pathway. Experience and confidence in conducting and interpreting neuropsychological assessments is an essential competence for the role.
The post provides substantial scope and opportunities for developing special interests in particular psychological approaches, teaching/training, clinical supervision, research, as well as involvement in service development.
Person specification
Education
* Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.
Qualification
* HCPC registered
Knowledge and Experience
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups relevant to the client group.
* Experience of administering, scoring, and interpreting complex neuropsychological assessments.
* Working with complex mental health problems in older people as part of a community treatment team.
Please ensure to check all supporting documents linked to this advert for useful information about working for us.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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