Clinical Psychologist

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a psychologist to join their multidisciplinary team in City of Westminster. This role involves providing high-quality neuropsychological assessments and support to older adults within the mental health services. The ideal candidate will have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and experience with interdisciplinary teamwork. Flexibility and a commitment to diversity are essential. This position also offers opportunities for ongoing professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Opportunities for professional development

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in providing neuropsychological assessments to adults and older adults.
• Ability to integrate assessment information into a formulation.
• Proficient in consulting with families and caregivers.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist neuropsychological assessment of patients.
• Consult and provide guidance to families and caregivers.
• Communicate assessment results and treatment plans to patients.

Skills

Neuropsychological assessment

Consultation skills

Communication skills

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Overview

Psychologists are integral and valued key members of the Mental Health Care of Older People’s multidisciplinary teams (MHCOP) in each borough across East London. Within and across the service, in line with National Guidance, psychologists are responsible and accountable for the provision of high quality, person-centred and culturally sensitive psychological services to older adults presenting to the service, their families and carers. Our goal is to alleviate psychological distress and promote psychological well-being, working alongside our multidisciplinary team colleagues in the community and liaison into the centralised wards, where required through consultation, teaching and training.

This is an exciting time for Tower Hamlets older adults\' services, with an innovative redesign of our diagnostic memory clinic offer currently underway. The particular focus of this post will be the provision of high-quality, specialist neuropsychological assessment and formulation into our newly redesigned Tower Hamlets memory clinics, working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues to provide a timely and holistic diagnostic service to service users and their families and carers. The post holder will be an active member of Tower Hamlets Mental Health Care of Older People\'s service, with a particular focus on delivering high-quality, specialist neuropsychological assessments and formulation under the Tower Hamlets Memory Clinic.

Key responsibilities

• Providing specialist neuropsychological assessment of adults and older adults presenting to TH memory clinic using appropriate methodology and to integrate this information into a neuropsychological formulation.
• Consulting with and providing specialist guidance to significant others including carers and families of service users.
• Offering advice and consultation on psychological and neuropsychological care to members of the interdisciplinary team, other relevant healthcare professionals, carers, and significant others.
• Communicating in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of service users under the care of the service and to monitor progress during treatment.
• Attending interdisciplinary team meetings and providing a specialist psychological perspective in the interdisciplinary formulation of appropriate treatment plans.

About ELFT and values

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people\'s lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive — so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don\'t stand still. We offer opportunities for staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

Strategy and delivery

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improved value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aims and culture

We were rated \"Outstanding\" by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated \"Outstanding\" again in 2018 and continue to be rated \"Outstanding\" in 2021. We were named in the HSJ\'s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018. We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and are pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Diversity and flexible working

ELFT is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. We offer flexible working arrangements and welcome discussions about how we might accommodate part-time, job-share or other flexible patterns.