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Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Able to work to professional guidelines and Trust policy.
- Other
Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- Experience
Significant experience in older adult and dementia services
- Experience
Neuropsychological and therapeutic assessments, interventions, supervision of others
- Experience
Application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience
Co-production with service users.
- Experience
Supervising qualified and unqualified psychological professionals and other staff
- Experience
Teaching, training, consultation to psychological professions and MDT relevant to MHCOP
- Knowledge & Skills
Highly developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipientsuce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.
- Knowledge & Skills
Ability to interpret, report and respond to performance and outcome data at all levels of the Trust.
- Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies across the lifespan in complex developmental trauma, and stigmatised individuals attracting diagnoses of e.g. complex needs, personality disorder, psychosis, dual diagnosis, persons with additional disabilities.
- Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge of legislation in relation to later life mental health and dementia.
- Knowledge & Skills
Understanding of audit and clinical effectiveness issues.
- Education, Qualification, Training
Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology & HCPC Registration
- Education, Qualification, Training
Completed training course in clinical supervision
- Education, Qualification, Training
Relevant specialist post qualification training
Desirable
11 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Recruitment of psychology and psychological professions staff.
- Experience
Leading or contributing to research, audit, service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services that impact beyond own service area.
- Experience
Leadership and/or operational management roles
- Experience
Representing the profession in local policy/development fora.
- Experience
Representing the profession in National or Professional Organisations.
- Knowledge & Skills
Active research interests and record of published research.
- Knowledge & Skills
Training others in quality improvement
- Education, Qualification, Training
Additional training in neuropsychological assessment, interventions and supervision of others.
- Education, Qualification, Training
Management and/or Leadership Training
- Education, Qualification, Training
Quality Improvement Training
- Education, Qualification, Training
Reflective Practice and/or working with group dynamics training.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit 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. Mental Health Care of Older People (MHCOP) services includes CMHTs, diagnostic memory clinics and post-diagnostic support, and inpatient psychiatric wards.
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. You must have experience of working with adults with complex mental health needs and from a range of religious, cultural, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds.
Main duties of the job
Provide professional, operational and clinical leadership and management to the psychological workforce across older adult services, with strategic and managerial oversight and responsibility for effective, robust and culturally competent psychological provision.
Monitoring and implementation of 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Staff are expected to work according to the Trust's mission, values and strategy. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the details of the post.
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.
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This advert is for Consultant Clinical Psychologist with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £88,250 - £100,355 per annum Inc HCA. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Oct 2026.
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