# Principal Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinical-psychologist/8217dae4-b9f8-47fb-a9a7-6f06e1c8286d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-clinical-psychologist/8217dae4-b9f8-47fb-a9a7-6f06e1c8286d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £67,950 - £78,028 per annum pro rata Inc HCAs - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Full time, part time, flexible working) - **Closing date:** 2024-11-13T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2024-10-30T11:00:50.198Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Older_Adult_Psychology/Older_Adult_Psychology-v6708000?_ts=1 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/6708000?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview ### Main duties of the job ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Be responsible for choosing and providing appropriate highly specialist psychological assessments including general mental health, risk and neuropsychological. - Neuropsychological assessments are carried out to aid in the diagnosis and management of dementias and other neurological conditions through timely pre-assessment, assessment, and diagnosis for people of any age with dementia. Post-diagnostic support is provided to help people to live well with their diagnosis and for their relatives, including helping to make sense of some of the more confusing and distressing symptoms that can arise in dementia and to consider their self-care as they support their relative. - Employ a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information in order to develop a highly specialist understanding of people’s difficulties and needs and to design psychological treatments and interventions tailored to individual need. - Be responsible for direct delivery of a broad range of specialist psychological interventions and treatments, and be able to modify and amend these as required and as practice and experience demands. - Be responsible for providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive, distressing and emotional information in relation to mental health issues, where there may be barriers to acceptance. - Spend sustained amounts of time with service users who may be aggressive and hostile, who may have poor communication skills and self-care and special physical and/or mental health needs. - Communicate across language and cultural barriers using interpreters where indicated. - Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients, e.g. service users, families and carers, other professionals and other statutory and voluntary organisations, orally, in writing and/or electronically, and as specified by the service. - Take into account the particular needs of people from minority ethnic groups and adapt assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate. - Use a broad theoretical knowledge base and highly specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others (assistant, trainee and other psychologists and members of other staff groups, particularly community and inpatient based staff) via the development and delivery of teaching, training, supervision, support and consultation. - Be responsible for providing a psychological perspective/psychological expertise for service or team activities, including clinical care, team or service dynamics, systems, health promotion, team or service organisation, in a range of settings, e.g. CPA meetings, case discussions, team meetings etc. - Provide advice, guidance and support in more general ways, to staff in the community and wards, and to families and carers. - Be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations. - Be responsible for proposing innovative responses to identified community needs and developing these in consultation with senior colleagues. - Supervise clinical/counselling psychologists in training, (from two years post qualification) and other staff as appropriate. - Supervise qualified clinical/counselling psychologists as appropriate. - Participate in the organisation and delivery of training events and consultancy covering this highly specialist area, and including work with local voluntary organisations. - Participate in the evaluation of services, including collection of monitoring information as required. - Contribute to service development, raising the profile of Older Adult Mental Health at a borough level. - Formulate and undertake service related research and audit and support other staff in research activities. - Receive regular clinical and management supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines to ensure high quality work, to engage in the Individual Performance Review process and continuing professional development, and generally work within a clinical governance framework. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings - Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance - Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, their families and carers - Able to build good working relationships with other professionals - Analytical & judgemental skills: Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations - Able to provide brief and longer term therapeutic interventions ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of work as a qualified Clinical Psychologist in NHS settings - Experience of working in a mental healthcare setting with older adults who experience severe mental health problems and dementia including neuropsychology assessment and therapy with this client group - Experience of developing and delivering highly specialist psychological interventions and teaching - Work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters - Experience of working with couples, families and groups including attending to the psychological needs of carers of the service - Use of psychological models for consultation with staff teams, notably relating to behaviours that challenge and trauma informed care - Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team - Able to contribute a psychological perspective in work with other professionals ### Qualifications **Essential** - Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS - Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) - Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees - Relevant specialist training or qualifications including - Neuropsychology- assessment and rehab - Neurodegenerative disorders - At least two psychological therapeutic modalities- CBT, CAT, Systemic, CFT, NET, ACT, Psychodynamic, EMDR, DBT - Functional analysis and behavioural assessments (behaviours that challenge) - Significant expertise working with complex and early trauma presentations in later life - Trauma informed care ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 7.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [elft strategy (pdf, 153.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1708) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [principal clinical psychologist jd/ps (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=8899358) ## Agent Notes - 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