8c Consultant Psychological Professions Lead for Mental Health for Older Persons Psychology Service inLeicester inLeicester PUBLISHED 21 AUG 2024

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Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages.

Job Overview

8C Consultant Clinical/Applied Psychologist or Consultant Psychological Therapist lead for Mental Health Services for Older Persons (MHSOP) Psychology Service.

We are looking for a highly experienced psychological professional with excellent leadership, clinical, organisational and management skills to lead the Mental Health Service for Older Persons Psychology Service.

You will be passionate about championing psychological approaches and mental health needs for older adults across community and inpatient services with extensive knowledge, skills and experience in Older Adult Mental Health with a range of experience across community and inpatient areas as an applied psychologist or psychological professional.

In this post you will provide leadership, development, management and clinical expertise to the Psychology Service within Older Adult Mental Health Services across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. This includes community and inpatient services.

You will provide professional leadership to a friendly, supportive and welcoming team of applied psychologists working into 8 Community Mental Health Teams, a Memory Service and 4 Older Adult Inpatient wards.

You will be part of a wider psychology and psychological therapies leadership team within a directorate and organisation that values and embraces psychological approaches and psychological professions.

Please contact: Dr Jo Scordellis, Directorate Lead for Psychology and Psychological Therapies:

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

To provide senior clinical leadership and line management to the Mental Health Services for Older People Psychology service.
To work with the Directorate Lead for Psychology and Psychological Therapies and other clinical and operational senior leaders in the Mental Health Directorate on development plans to support the design, development and delivery of a high-quality, responsive and accessible psychological service in an integrated way within service delivery teams.
To manage the delegated budget for the Mental Health Services for Older People Psychology service, which is part of the overall MHSOP budget.
To be responsible for the day-to-day management and leadership of the staff working within Mental Health Services for Older People Psychology Service.
Working within a multi professional and recovery-oriented framework to actively facilitate psychologically informed ways of working within MHSOP.
To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the supervision and governance of the clinical practice for all clinicians within the MHSOP psychology service.
To facilitate training, development and application of agreed models of psychological, psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions as needed within the Trust.
To ensure robust supervision, and clinical support is available to colleagues within MHSOP and the Mental Health directorate on matters related to the provision of Psychological interventions for Older Persons.
To provide clinical leadership on all matters relating to provision and practice of Applied Psychology and Psychological therapies within MHSOP.
To carry a small clinical caseload in a relevant area of MHSOP.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

To provide senior clinical leadership and line management to the Mental Health Services for Older People Psychology service.
To work with the Directorate Lead for Psychology and Psychological Therapies and other clinical and operational senior leaders in the Mental Health Directorate on development plans to support the design, development and delivery of a high-quality, responsive and accessible psychological service in an integrated way within service delivery teams.
To manage the delegated budget for the Mental Health Services for Older People Psychology service, which is part of the overall MHSOP budget.
To be responsible for the day-to-day management and leadership of the staff working within Mental Health Services for Older People Psychology Service.
Working within a multi professional and recovery-oriented framework to actively facilitate psychologically informed ways of working within MHSOP.
To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the supervision and governance of the clinical practice for all clinicians within the MHSOP psychology service.
To facilitate training, development and application of agreed models of psychological, psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions as needed within the Trust.
To ensure robust supervision, and clinical support is available to colleagues within MHSOP and the Mental Health directorate on matters related to the provision of Psychological interventions for Older Persons.
To provide clinical leadership on all matters relating to provision and practice of Applied Psychology and Psychological therapies within MHSOP.
To carry a small clinical caseload in a relevant area of MHSOP.