Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

We are looking for a clinical psychologist to join our team of eight qualified clinicians and two assistant psychologists. This post will be a clinical post working in the community directly with older adults with complex mental health problems, with mental health colleagues and wider services. You will contribute to governance within the department, such as audits, and training that the department provides to colleagues. The post is a permanent Band 7 post, for 2 days a week to be agreed with the service lead.

Main duties of the job

This role will mostly be in the community (seeing outpatients, including home visits across the whole Gateshead patch), neuropsychological assessment, multi-disciplinary work, supervision and training with the CMHTs.

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

The older people's psychology team sits within Gateshead Health Foundation Trust Older People's Mental Health (OPMH) service. The service consists of an OPMH Community Mental Health Team, the Specialist Memory Hub and an Early Onset Dementia team, two older adult inpatient mental health wards (functional and organic) and the Older People's Mental Health Liaison Team. The psychology team works in to each aspect of the service (and also has dedicated input on the stroke ward at the acute hospital).

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be part of a supportive and experienced team of clinicians, who work together with the Older People's Mental Health service in Gateshead. Your main responsibilities will be clinical, developing your therapeutic and neuropsychological skills in working with older adults, and offering consultation, supervision and training to colleagues.

Experience of working psychologically with older people with complexity and co-morbid difficulties will be an advantage, as will training in specific psychotherapeutic approaches. Developmental supervision from qulaified clinicians will be provided, and there are good opportunities for further training within the Trust.

Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date : 21st January 2025

Closing date : 4th February 2025

We welcome your application.

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society and the HCPC.
• HCPC registered practitioner psychologist

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity, including severe and enduring mental health problems, psychosis and personality disorder. This includes maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the possibility of physical abuse.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Skills and competencies

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Skills in evidence based psychological interventions.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Role/Team specific requirements

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive behaviour.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Able to meet the mobility requirements of the post

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bensham Hospital

Saltwell Road

Gateshead

NE8 4YL

Employer's website

https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

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