Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Inpatient MH older people wards

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Radford Semele; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service provider is seeking a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead and provide governance for mental health inpatient services for older people. This role emphasizes leadership and collaboration with multi-professional teams to enhance the quality of care in inpatient settings. The ideal candidate will have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and experience working with older adults. The position provides generous annual leave and various professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee discounts

Wellbeing support

Staff networks and support groups

Qualifications

• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Experience working with older adult mental health services.
• Ability to provide leadership and governance for mental health inpatient services.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychological leadership and governance for mental health inpatient services for older people.
• Work closely with operational leads to ensure effective admissions.
• Develop and nurture psychological practitioners.

Skills

Leadership

Consultation

Communication

Relationship building

Psychological advice

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

If you're passionate about working with older people, and keen to support strategic developments in trauma informed, older adult centred, and dementia friendly practice on wards, this maybe the role for you! We are excited to be able to advertise this Consultant Clinical Psychologist role within our older adult inpatient mental health wards; having recently redesigned our workforce model, in line with ACP-UK guidelines about inpatient mental health services, we are working towards being able to staff that model fully.

Using your expert knowledge and skills relating to older people you will provide leadership, consultation, and supervision for colleagues working with mental health inpatient services for older people. You will be responsible for the governance of psychological interventions and provide expert psychological advice to senior management both about psychological services but also the wider inpatient teams.

You will hold responsibility for a range of senior and junior psychological professionals across various specialties as well as managing your own clinical caseload. There are four wards for older people and we anticipate that the successful post holder would provide strategic oversight and governance for up to three of these wards.

This role requires highly developed communication skills, being authentic and truly engaged with multi-professional team working, respecting others and excellent relationship building skills, and additionally offers back much satisfaction and a chance to make a tangible difference to the lives of older people experiencing challenges which require an inpatient mental health admission.

Inpatient services are currently engaged in a 3 year transformation programme focusing on purposeful admissions, increasing therapeutic interventions and proactive discharge. This offers an opportunity for development of new models and to contribute to effective and compassionate admissions - we'd love for you to join this exciting piece of work to ensure we are fully inclusive of the needs of older people in the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychological leadership and governance for Mental Health Inpatient Services for Older People.
• Work closely with operational leads in the service to ensure effective and compassionate admissions.
• Develop and nurture areas of interest as well as developing a team of psychological practitioners.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.

What We Offer

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
• Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more.
• Staff networks and support groups.