Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Enfield Older People's Psychology Service, to work as part of various multi-disciplinary teams across Enfield Older People Mental Health services within NLFT.
This is a fixed part-time post (0.5 wte) to be based at Chase Farm Hospital site in Enfield.
The Enfield Older People's Psychology Service is a small, friendly and supportive, growing team of psychologists. We would very much welcome either a newly qualified or experienced clinician, who is highly motivated and has the necessary skills to work with Older People presenting with a range of issues, often with high levels of complexity, offering assessments and suitable interventions.
Main duties of the job
- Provide psychological assessments of referred clients, using interview, formal psychometric, neuropsychological and other assessment methods as appropriate.
- Formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients, and provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
- Provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
- Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of care.
- Develop effective links with the range of agencies, statutory and non-statutory, involved in providing care and support to clients and families/support networks.
- Advise service users, their carers and other agencies on the promotion of good mental health.
Benefits
- NHS Discounts
- Generous annual leave
- NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
- Flexible working and health and wellbeing initiatives
Person Specification
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies