Band 8a Clinical Psychologist - North Somerset Memory Services

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Clevedon; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Clevedon is seeking a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist for its Later Life Therapies Service. The role involves providing high-quality neuropsychological assessments and leading a team within a supportive environment. Applicants should have a Doctoral qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and HCPC registration, along with experience working with older adults who have complex cognitive difficulties. This position offers opportunities for professional development and emphasizes a commitment to diversity.

Qualifications

• Experience of training others in topics of neuropsychology.
• Experience of working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Clinical supervision/consultation experience.

Responsibilities

• Providing high quality, evidence-based neuropsychology services.
• Performing neuropsychological assessment and team formulation.
• Supervising and consulting with other professionals.

Skills

Neuropsychological assessment skills

Good communication skills

Organizational skills

Empathy/engagement with clients

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Doctoral Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology qualification

HCPC Registered

Job description

Job overview

Come and join our Later Life Therapies Service, working in the Memory Service Team. You will work closely with the Later Life Psychology Lead and other psychologists in the team and supervise the Band 7 Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Psychologist in the Memory Service. You will be joining a supportive team, at an exciting time of change and transformation within our services.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be highly-motivated to provide a high quality, evidence-based neuropsychology service and will have experience of working with older adult individuals with complex cognitive difficulties.

The memory service has dedicated multidisciplinary clinicians, with opportunities for consultation and training, in the form of specialist neuropsychological supervision and consultation. The provision of neuropsychological assessment and team formulation will be a key part of this role.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

North Somerset Later Life Therapies Service (PTS) is a small, dedicated and friendly team including a Psychology Lead for Later Life, Clinical Psychologists, Music Therapist, an Assistant Psychologist and Trainee Clinical Psychologists. All share a passion for providing high quality, compassionate care.

We have established links with local training providers in Clinical and Counselling Psychology. All PTS staff have access to regular activities to support their ongoing professional development, including a bi-monthly CPD Club. We regularly host placements for Clinical and Counselling Psychology trainees and trainees in music therapy.

The successful applicant will be enthusiastic and highly motivated to provide a good quality, evidence based neuropsychology assessment, supervision and consultation service within a changing and challenging environment. They will have experience of working with individuals with complex cognitive difficulties and risk issues within secondary care, and a particular interest in working with Later Life service users and neuropsychology. They will enjoy working as part of a team and thrive on working under pressure.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

Essential criteria

• Doctoral Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology qualification, or equivalent.
• HCPC Registered.
• Post qualification and further specialist training in clinical neuropsychology

Desirable criteria

• Experience of training in supervision

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of training others in topics of neuropsychology
• Experience of working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues
• Clinical supervision/consultation with other professionals
• Neuropsychological assessment skills and knowledge
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the specialism. Ability to use this knowledge to think systemically/ organizationally.

Desirable criteria

• Relevant R&D or clinical audit work post qualification.
• Clinical supervision of Clinical or Counselling psychology trainees.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to work effectively and flexibly as an integral member of a team.
• Good communication and liaison skills.
• Well organised with good administration skills.
• Empathy/engagement skills with the client group.
• Ability to cope with workload pressure/ prioritise workload.
• Ability to work independently.
• Self-awareness and emotional resilience.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

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