Job summary
This is a clinical post working directly with older adults with complex mental health problems, with mental health colleagues and the wider Older People's Mental Health Service and partner agencies in Gateshead.
Main duties of the job
This post will be two days per week in the community (seeing outpatients, including home visits across the Gateshead patch) offering psychoilogical assessment, formulation and intervention, neuropsychological assessment, multi-disciplinary work, supervision and training with the CMHT and wider service. One day per week will be working with the Stroke Ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, providing direct and indirect stroke psychology assessment, formulation and intervention.
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 is employed by CNTW NHS Foundation Trust and sits within Gateshead Health Foundation Trust's Older People's Mental Health service. There is a Gateshead-wide Community Mental Health Team for older people, two older adult inpatient wards (functional and organic), a Memory Hub and an Early Onset Dementia team. The psychology team also works into the acute hospital older adult mental health liaison team and stroke ward.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post is a senior clinical psychology post within our department. The main responsibilities include direct and indirect clinical work in the community and on the stroke ward, and teaching, training and service development alongside other psychology colleagues.
You will contribute to governance within the department, such as audits, data analysis and reporting, and training that the department delivers to colleagues in the service, and to Clinical Psychology Doctorate courses locally. Opportunities to develop clinical skills and roles in line management and supervision of colleagues are well supported.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 8th February 2024
Closing date : 22nd February 2024
We welcome your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post is a senior clinical psychology post within our department. The main responsibilities include direct and indirect clinical work in the community and on the stroke ward, and teaching, training and service development alongside other psychology colleagues.
You will contribute to governance within the department, such as audits, data analysis and reporting, and training that the department delivers to colleagues in the service, and to Clinical Psychology Doctorate courses locally. Opportunities to develop clinical skills and roles in line management and supervision of colleagues are well supported.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 8th February 2024
Closing date : 22nd February 2024
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
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 HCPC and British Psychological Society.
- HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
Desirable
- Additional qualification in at least one therapeutic model, evidence-based for use with this client group
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
- Demonstrate further specialist training and experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months or an alternative agreed by the Associate Psychological Services Director.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. NTW/Generic/NJ/1551 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.
- Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
- Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through selfmanagement and use of the clinical supervision process.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Other
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 of highly emotive behaviour.
- Able to meet the travel demands of the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
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 HCPC and British Psychological Society.
- HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
Desirable
- Additional qualification in at least one therapeutic model, evidence-based for use with this client group
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
- Demonstrate further specialist training and experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months or an alternative agreed by the Associate Psychological Services Director.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. NTW/Generic/NJ/1551 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.
- Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
- Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through selfmanagement and use of the clinical supervision process.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Other
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 of highly emotive behaviour.
- Able to meet the travel demands 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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
