# Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist - Devizes > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8c-consultant-clinical-psychologistneuropsychologist-devizes/e5940d2a-5010-48f0-b7e6-77d0516c28f5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8c-consultant-clinical-psychologistneuropsychologist-devizes/e5940d2a-5010-48f0-b7e6-77d0516c28f5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust - **Location:** Bath NHS House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-11T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-18T10:11:25.516Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Somerset/Devizes/Avon_Wiltshire_Mental_Health_Partnership_NHS_Trust/Consultant_Clinical_PsychologistNeuropsychologist_Older_Adults/Consultant_Clinical_PsychologistNeuropsychologist_Older_Adults-v8266040 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8266040?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.awp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a role for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist to lead and develop Later Life Psychology Services within Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. You will provide strategic, professional and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care for older adults across Wiltshire. This role combines leadership with direct clinical practice, management and supervision of psychology staff, specialist supervision, and professional leadership to psychology colleagues across BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire. Alongside maintaining a specialist clinical caseload, you will offer expert consultation and advice to multidisciplinary teams, service users, carers, and partner organisations. We are committed to supporting your professional growth and development. We provide opportunities for specialist clinical neuropsychology training, leadership training, training in Quality Improvement methodologies and model specific training. ### Main duties of the job As Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist, you will help to shape, develop and support the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based psychological care for older adults. You will lead service development initiatives that support the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan as outlined in the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults. The post combines senior leadership with expert clinical practice. You will manage and support a team of psychology professionals and maintain a highly specialist caseload involving complex psychological and neuropsychological assessment, formulation and intervention. You will play a key role in service improvement, quality assurance and clinical governance. The role also includes leading and supporting research, service evaluation and audit activities to promote innovation and improve outcomes for older adults. In addition, you will contribute to workforce development through teaching, training and supporting the development of psychology staff, trainees and the wider multidisciplinary workforce. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities See attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details of responsibilities of the role. Additional information about services is provided within the Local Information Sheet. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - 1. Effective team player, with excellent communication skills. Advanced skills at engaging with/communicating sensitively to clients who exhibit severe problems of interpersonal relating. - 2. Well organised with good administration skills. - 3. Empathy/engagement skills with the client group AND Ability to cope with the stress of working with a difficult, potentially hostile, emotionally and behaviourally disturbed client group. - 4. Ability to cope with workload pressure/prioritise workload AND ability to work independently - 5. Self awareness and emotional resilience; skills in personal supervision. ### Experience and Knowledge **Essential** - 1. Minimum of 6 years post qualification experience - 2. Experience in delivering and interpreting neuropsychological tests AND Specialist knowledge of psychometrics applied to an older adult psychiatric context. - 3. Specialist clinical knowledge and skills: (i) Extensive knowledge of specialist assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions with client group (ii)Expert analysis and differential formulation of highly complex case information. (iii) Expert knowledge of one NICE recommended intervention - 4. Supervision experience: with Trainee Clinical Psychologists and with other professions. - 5. Experience of Lecturing/Teaching/Training Psychologists and other professions - 6. R&D and Clinical audit work relevant to role **Desirable** - 1. Service development/project work. - 2. Ability to use computer spreadsheets for data analysis & software to perform specialist/ advanced data analysis of clinical data. ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - 1. Clinical Psychology qualification or doctoral equivalent AND Registered by the HCPC as a clinical psychologist - 2. Relevant Specialist CPD qualification (diploma, advanced therapy training etc). - 3. 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