Job summary
Community Recovery Service for Older People (CRSOP)
8a Clinical Psychologist one day per week (0.2 sessions).
This is an exciting opportunity to join the well established Community Recovery Service for Older People (CRSOP) team one day a week. CRSOP are a small team working intensively with older people with mental health difficulties within the context of ageing and frailty. You will work as part of a committed MDT where there is a strong emphasis on group work, alongside one to one support. CRSOP sits within Services for Ageing and Mental Health and work closely with the community teams and hospital division.
As a psychologist working in the wider Services for Ageing and Mental Health you will form part of supportive and kind psychology team. As a group of psychologists, we have specialist interests in working systemically with older people and their families and systems, delivering CBT, ACT, EMDR, and are committed to working with carers and families. We are a Trauma Informed Organisation and try to embed anti-discriminatory practice into our work with older people.
We are committed to Continuing Professional Development, and we offer an excellent inhouse programme of CPD including courses in CBT, ACT, EMDR, Psychodynamic and Systemic Approaches.
**WE WILL CONSIDER B7 APPLICATIONS AS A PRECEPTORSHIP**
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within the Community Recovery Service for Older People (CRSOP) as a lone psychologist, one day a week. They will provide high quality and highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment including group work, working autonomously within professional guidelines and to the overall framework of the services' policies and procedures.
The post holder will offer consultation to aid formulation, diagnosis and psychological care planning, including the management of challenging and risk behaviours, to non-psychologist colleagues. They will provide psychological perspectives on group processes and dynamics, provide reflective spaces and informal staff support. The post holder will develop the group programme, adapting group approaches to fit the context and support others in the delivery of group work.
The post holder will supervise / manage trainee clinical psychologists and offer supervision where appropriate to qualified psychologists of a lower band. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development/quality improvement.
About us
The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as a senior clinician within the service, providing an advanced level of psychological expertise in assessment advice and treatment of highly complex patients.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred older clients with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours.
To provide highly specialised psychological treatment including group work for older adults, using a range of psychological interventions and approaches appropriate to the service.
To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients with very complex needs in highly challenging circumstances.
To carry out direct and indirect risk assessments and management plans in line with MDT care planning.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment and treatment in accordance with policies of the service.
To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of older service users, who may have highly complex needs and exhibit challenging behaviours.
To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to service users.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as a senior clinician within the service, providing an advanced level of psychological expertise in assessment advice and treatment of highly complex patients.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred older clients with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours.
To provide highly specialised psychological treatment including group work for older adults, using a range of psychological interventions and approaches appropriate to the service.
To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients with very complex needs in highly challenging circumstances.
To carry out direct and indirect risk assessments and management plans in line with MDT care planning.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment and treatment in accordance with policies of the service.
To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of older service users, who may have highly complex needs and exhibit challenging behaviours.
To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to service users.
Person Specification
Qualifications /Registration
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Substantial post qualification experience working with older people and people with dementia with behaviour that challenges families, carers and networks.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Experience of working as a psychologist in a multidisciplinary team.
- Significant experience of the application of clinical / counselling psychology with people from different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to older adults and mental health
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in older peoples mental health, including challenging behaviours.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Well developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability and interest to contribute service development.
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health and Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable 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.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strong interest and commitment to working with older people.
- Strong interest in promoting the trust values.
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications /Registration
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Substantial post qualification experience working with older people and people with dementia with behaviour that challenges families, carers and networks.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
- Experience of working as a psychologist in a multidisciplinary team.
- Significant experience of the application of clinical / counselling psychology with people from different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to older adults and mental health
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in older peoples mental health, including challenging behaviours.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Well developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability and interest to contribute service development.
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health and Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable 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.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strong interest and commitment to working with older people.
- Strong interest in promoting the trust values.
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.
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).
