Band 7 Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

Are you interested in a role where every day is different and where you can use a variety of psychology skills?  If so, we are looking for a caring and innovative clinical psychologist to join us for 3 days a week in our Specialist Older Adult Mental Health Service (SOAMHS) for people over 70.

You will play a key part in enabling the more therapeutic nature of support throughout the service as well as providing and supervising clinical interventions. The teams are small so you will be working with the whole range of mental health problems.

You will provide groups and individual therapy for people within the service as well as for their carers/families alongside other team members.

The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham is culturally highly diverse and there is a real commitment to meet the needs of the communities we serve.

You will therefore be involved in ensuring psychology provision is appropriate and accessible for this diverse community and outreach activities are encouraged.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a comprehensive psychology service to patients who have a wide range of psychiatric, psychological, social problems, physical health problems and extremely complex needs.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to psychological services, including suitability for admission, diagnosis, general and forensic risk, progress and suitability for discharge. These assessments will be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems/high risk behaviours, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group, the constraints and restrictions imposed by working in an inpatient environment and the demands of external agencies and other factors.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.