Description
We are seeking a highly motivated, innovative, and inspiring HCPC Registered Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead psychological professions working in older adult services across the East London Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, and City & Hackney.
The post is suitable for an experienced Psychologist who champions older adults and older adults' psychological needs across community and inpatient contexts. You must have an excellent understanding of working systemically across and within organisational boundaries.
Main Duties of the Job:
- Provide professional, operational, and clinical leadership and management to the psychological workforce across older adult services.
- Monitor and implement professional standards in the practice of trauma-informed, applied psychology, and psychological therapies and interventions.
- Provide expert clinical input, leadership, and consultancy within and across specialist older adults services and teams.
- Provide neuropsychological and psychometric advice, consultation, and supervision, creating opportunities for staff to develop neuropsychological skills.
- Hold a limited caseload of complex cases requiring specialised psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention.
- Oversee the conduct of research, quality improvement, service evaluation, and audits relevant to Older Adults and Dementia psychological services.
- Contribute senior psychological professions representation at the Tower Hamlets Directorate Management Team.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary: £88,250 to £100,355 per annum Inc HCA
- Permanent, full-time position
Requirements:
- Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology & HCPC Registration
- Completed training course in clinical supervision
- Relevant specialist post-qualification training
- Significant experience in older adult and dementia services
- Neuropsychological and therapeutic assessments, interventions, supervision of others
- Application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Co-production with service users
- Supervising qualified and unqualified psychological professionals and other staff
- Teaching, training, consultation to psychological professions and MDT relevant to MHCOP