Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Older People's CMHT inHuddersfield inHuddersfield PUBLISHED MON 24 FEB 2025
Working within a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, you’ll engage in diverse clinical activities, from providing assessments and individual therapy to collaborating closely with nursing and occupational therapy colleagues. Embrace a trauma-informed approach as you deliver high-quality psychological care, contribute to service audits, and gain invaluable experience in neuropsychology assessments for older adults with complex mental health needs. If you’re driven by a desire to support the well-being of our elderly population and thrive in an environment that prioritises self-care and teamwork, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now and help us create a brighter future for those we serve.
30 hours per week
This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Older Peoples Psychology team in West Yorkshire! There are options regarding WTE in addition to flexible and agile working available.
An exciting mix of autonomous working whilst also been supported by our established Clinical Psychologists. We will support you with CPD opportunities and potential to develop the post in line with your own interests. We also have close links with the Leeds Doctoral Training course and research opportunities are encouraged.
You will join a rich and established multi-disciplinary team including Nursing, Psychiatry and Occupational Therapy. The service places an emphasis on self-care and on supporting one another. This means that there are clear jobs plans and people are encouraged to maintain a good work/life balance.
The post can be 8a or a band 7/8a preceptorship opportunity, with progression based on completion of the relevant competency framework (not solely length of time in post).
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.
We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic about working with older adults. There is a lot of variety within this role for example supporting people with a range of clinical presentations. You will be providing assessment, formulation, and intervention through individual therapy and through consultation work with non-psychology colleagues. We are also motivated to be adopting a trauma-informed approach in our service. You will be supported in completing neuropsychology assessments for clients presenting with both mental health difficulties and queries around cognitive functioning.
The position requires active involvement within the CMHT who are very supportive of psychology, for example, attending MDTs, facilitating group and individual supervision, and delivering staff training. Working alongside colleagues you will promote clinical effectiveness, contributing to audits and reviews of service provision to maximise the wellbeing of older adults in Kirklees.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
About us
This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.
The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.
The post holder will provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.
Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and trusts policies and procedures.
Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the areas served by the team/service.
To offer consultation and supervision when required by other agencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being of service users.
To provide supervision of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists, doctoral level clinical psychology trainees, assistant psychologists and trainees from other disciplines as appropriate.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment for service users experiencing moderate, severe and complex mental health/psychological problems based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observation and semi-structured interviews with service users, their family and/or carers.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of mental health/psychological and/or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and exercising expert clinical judgement based on the highest standards of evidence based practice across a full range of care settings.
To establish rapport and build effective working relationships with service users and all those involved in their psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
To work jointly with other team members and professionals in delivering the most appropriate clinical service to service users and, where appropriate, their families/carers.
To follow appropriate local Safeguarding Adults and Children policies in all clinical work, including close liaison with all relevant agencies.
To provide specialist risk assessment of, and intervention to, service users who may present in local acute settings in line with agreed procedures
To liaise and consult with the wider professional network in the care of service users, offering consultation and supervision where necessary.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychological interventions and to autonomously manage a caseload of clients.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users, the settings in which they present, and agencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being.
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