Working 32 hours per week. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our inpatient services for people in later life. Cothele, based in Derriford Hospital, is our mental health inpatient unit, and Edgcumbe, based within Mount Gould Hospital, is our dementia ward. Both wards are staffed by a team of friendly dedicated professionals who welcome the skills psychologists have to offer.
This is a new posting that the successful applicant can shape and develop, and would suit someone with a vision of what inpatient care in later life should look like.
You will receive regular supervision to guide and support your personal and professional development, and you will have unrivalled access to a network of clinical psychologists working in various specialities across the organisation.
We believe that education and learning should be a lifelong venture, so we would assist you financially to embark on any relevant post qualification training course you wish to complete.
We encourage 3rd year trainees about to qualify, and those who still consider themselves newly qualified and interested in later life psychology to apply.
Main duties of the job
LiveWell South West serves a population of approximately 250,000. This post is set within two inpatient services for people in later life.
Job Purpose:
1. To improve the psychological health and wellbeing of people admitted for inpatient care.
2. To support colleagues working on the ward, and ensure clinical practice is psychologically informed.
3. To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation using a variety of applied psychology models and tools.
4. To support and supervise staff who deliver psychological interventions to patients.
5. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
6. To perform specialist psychology and neuropsychological assessments when required.
7. To provide consultation, teaching and advice to ward staff, families, care & residential staff, and other professionals working with older people.
8. To provide consultation and guidance to other professionals within the team regarding the psychological aspects of their client work.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7-day service.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative.
Job responsibilities
1. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and or wider organisational matters need addressing.
2. To contribute to service development initiatives being progressed in the inpatient service.
3. To possess and practice a high level of communication and relationship skills in situations where emotional distress and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening behaviour can be expected.
4. To deal effectively with highly distressing service user and family situations (e.g. family breakdown, abuse, verbal aggression, challenging behaviour) and to support other staff in their responses to such situations.
5. To communicate with staff in the Later Life community teams, health, social care, and the voluntary sector in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans for people who are under our care.
6. To provide support and guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques and to foster reflective practice at an individual and group level.
7. To be responsible for providing a specialist psychological service to people in later life presenting with complex physical health problems, psychological disorders and behavioural difficulties.
8. To supervise assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists.
Person Specification
Communication Skills
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex highly technical and or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
Experience
* Experience of teaching and training others.
* Experience in assessing, formulating and providing interventions for older people with mental health problems & dementia.
* Experience of conducting psychological assessments.
* Experience of working in teams and maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism.
Qualifications
* Qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (D.Clin. Psych or equivalent) and registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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