Job summary
We are delighted to be offering a part-time Band 8 Consultant Clinical Psychologist post within our Older Adult Inpatients Service at Hadrian Clinic, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne. We are looking for Clinical Psychologist with significant expertise in working with older adults either in the community or in inpatient services.
The post will work into our two older adult wards. Castleside is our ward for people with organic problems including dementia; a 10 bedded ward providing assessment and treatment by a multi-disciplinary health and social care team. The ward supports service users and their families with a range of different treatments and therapies. Akenside is a 10 bedded ward for older people with mental health problems arising from functional disorders such as depression, anxiety or psychosis. Care is provided by a multi-disciplinary team using a biopsychosocial model of understanding.
The role will be part of the multi-disciplinary team, with colleagues from Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychiatry and Speech and Language Therapy. This post will focus on supporting specialist psychological assessment and formulation (including neuropsychological assessment and using the Newcastle Model), and interventions with service users, alongside interventions with families. The post will provide scaffolding to the inpatient teams and supervision to psychological services colleagues. The post will also support service evaluation and innovation.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work within a multidisciplinary context undertaking specialised psychological assessments, treatments, and other types of clinical intervention appropriate to this level of training with individual clients/ groups of clients, and families. They will provide specialist supervision to MDT and psychological services staff.
The successful applicant will manage a caseload and be responsible for providing effective evidence-based care in line with national and local guidelines. They will support the service in the development and delivery of training and service development initiatives.
Person Specification
Education and Knowledge
Essential
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.
* HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
Desirable
* Qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology. Non-medical approved clinician
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
* Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.
* Substantial further specialist training and experience, equivalent to at least 6 years' experience, including being able to demonstrate further specialist training.
* Substantial post qualification experience of delivering evidence-based psychological therapy training to a range of professional groups.
* Substantial
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