(Part-time) Clinical Psychologist - Older Adults

Job overview

Are you a newly qualified Psychologist seeking your first role, or an experienced Psychologist looking for a change of pace?

We’re recruiting a Clinical Psychologist (newly qualified or experienced) to join Amber Ward on a part-time basis (18.75 hours per week) at the Whiteleaf Centre in Aylesbury.

You will provide a high-quality, highly specialist clinical psychology service to an older adults’ inpatient ward supporting patients with complex mental health needs, including dementia.

Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to patient care through consultation with the multidisciplinary team and supporting the development and implementation of care and treatment plans
• Undertaking psychological and neuropsychological assessments where appropriate
• Delivering individual and group psychological interventions
• Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions and adapting practice accordingly
• Providing consultation and supervision to colleagues to support psychologically informed care
• Working as part of the ward leadership team alongside the Ward Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist to support service improvement and change
• Supervising and supporting assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, and other team members delivering psychologically based care and treatment

This is an opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary team and play a key role in shaping psychologically informed care for older adults in an inpatient setting.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team, 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions.
• To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals within the service.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients in receipt of older people’s services.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
• To 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 both uni- and multi-disciplinary care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.