Senior Clinical Psychologist - Fixed Term

Job overview

We are looking for an 8a Older Adult Clinical Psychologist to join the Buckinghamshire Psychological Therapies Team for a 9 month fixed term contract.

We are happy to support flexible working hours to fit with external commitments. We would really love to hear from you – you may have ideas about skills you have and what you want to develop further, as well as roles you want to pursue - we are open to supporting your professional development!

The core work of this post is to provide psychological assessments and interventions for older adults with severe and/or complex mental health problems, their families and carers, as well as working with teams to provide consultation, support and training.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for:

• Contributing to care provision of patients by providing consultation to the multidisciplinary team and giving ongoing support to create and implement care and treatment plans
• Undertaking psychological assessments, including neuropsychological assessments where appropriate
• Delivering individual psychological interventions, where appropriate
• Evaluating the effectiveness of individual interventions
• Providing consultation and supervision to team colleagues in the delivery of psychologically informed treatments
• Providing ad hoc advice and guidance to colleagues in inpatient wards, social care and GPs in planning and implementing care plans for patients with psychological care needs
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of local policies and procedures to exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the ward to which the post relates

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.