Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites.
Job overview
Senior Clinical Psychologist - Older Adults Specialty Band 8a - 0.5 WTE (Temporary position until the end of July 2025)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical psychologist with experience and enthusiasm in working with older people, to join the friendly and supportive Rapid Intervention and Treatment Team (RITT) across Lancaster and Morecambe in Lancashire.
The RITT team provides a variety of approaches to support older people with complex mental health issues, with the aim of reducing the need for hospital admission where possible. A specialist care home liaison service is also provided to nursing and care homes.
The psychology post within the RITT team involves direct and indirect psychological assessment, formulation and intervention, consultation, training and supervision of psychology and non-psychology colleagues.
Additionally, this post offers some flexibility to continue to support RITT clients, who have complex care needs, for longer term work within the OA CMHT.
The successful applicant will be working with the multi-disciplinary team and team manager to continue to develop a high-quality, community-orientated service for older people.
Main duties of the job
The post is professionally attached to the locality older adult psychology team and wider network, both of which offer a friendly and supportive space, with a strong commitment to providing quality services for older people in Lancashire.
If required, additional hours may be available within the wider network.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* An increased level of knowledge relevant to this post equivalent to a post-graduate diploma (in addition to entry level qualification).
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full 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.
* Demonstrable evidence of a continuing commitment to developing expertise in psychological assessment and intervention.
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