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Leadership Role, The position offers a chance to take on a leadership role, contributing to the development of clinical practices within the service.
Diverse Work Environment, The role spans various settings including outpatient services, community mental health teams, and inpatient wards, providing a rich and varied work experience.
Specialized Focus, Working with older adults experiencing severe mental health issues and dementia allows for meaningful and impactful contributions to a vulnerable population.
Professional Development, Opportunities for teaching, training, and consultation enhance personal and professional growth, as well as knowledge sharing within a multidisciplinary team.
Collaborative Approach, The job fosters partnerships with various stakeholders, including local agencies and other mental health professionals, promoting a well-rounded approach to patient care.
Supportive Values, The organization's commitment to care, respect, and inclusivity encourages a positive workplace culture that aligns with professional ethics and personal values.
The Principal Clinical Psychologist role at Alfabétiko in London involves providing high-quality psychological services to the Tower Hamlets Mental Health Care for Older People (MHCOP). This position requires leadership in collaboration with the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based psychological care across various settings, including community mental health teams, memory clinics, inpatient wards, and outpatient services. The successful candidate will also be tasked with mentoring and training multidisciplinary team members and contributing specialist psychological perspectives to enhance patient care for those experiencing severe and complex mental health issues and dementia-related challenges.
Candidates should possess a postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council, and substantial experience within NHS settings, particularly with older adults facing severe mental health challenges. The role demands strong interpersonal and analytical skills to navigate sensitive situations, provide therapeutic interventions, and foster effective relationships with colleagues and service users. The position is part-time and offers flexibility in work arrangements, with a salary range of £70,387 to £80,465 per annum.
Candidates should possess a postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council, and substantial experience within NHS settings, particularly with older adults facing severe mental health challenges. The role demands strong interpersonal and analytical skills to navigate sensitive situations, provide therapeutic interventions, and foster effective relationships with colleagues and service users. The position is part-time and offers flexibility in work arrangements, with a salary range of £70,387 to £80,465 per annum.
Job Summary
This post entails a leadership role assisting the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist to ensure clinical psychology expertise and governance is monitored and maintained within Tower Hamlets MHCOP, across all parts of the service - Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), Memory Clinic, inpatient wards and outpatients.
The post holder will ensure the systematic provision of a high quality comprehensive specialist psychology service to the service users of Tower Hamlets MHCOP and their carers. They will ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding the needs of people presenting to the service through advice, consultation, supervision, teaching and training of psychological research and theory.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an active member of Tower Hamlet's Mental Health Care of Older Adult's service including the centralised MHCOP inpatient wards and wider East London MHCOP Psychology and Arts Therapies professional group.
They will work closely with psychologists and other professionals in the team, maintaining a standardised approach to the assessment and care of Service Users with complex needs across community and inpatient settings. As part of this, they will contribute to the provision of a specialist psychological perspective for the work of the team, providing highly specialist psychological advice and consultation to other members of the team as well as consultation into the borough's residential and nursing homes.
They will be responsible and accountable for the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service for people with severe, complex and enduring mental health and dementia related difficulties and their families, presenting to the service and across community and inpatient settings.
They will develop working partnerships with other members of psychology services locally and across East London boroughs, relevant statutory and voluntary agencies, locality services and providers/commissioners as appropriate.
About Us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the 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.
Date posted
January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£70,387 to £80,465 a year Per annum pro rata inc HCA
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number
363-NEW6862891
Job locations
Robinson Centre, Mile End Hospital
Bancroft Road
London
E1 4DG
Job Description
Job responsibilities
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Job Description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Education/qualifications/training
Essential
Essential
Essential
Essential
This post entails a leadership role assisting the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist to ensure clinical psychology expertise and governance is monitored and maintained within Tower Hamlets MHCOP, across all parts of the service - Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), Memory Clinic, inpatient wards and outpatients.
The post holder will ensure the systematic provision of a high quality comprehensive specialist psychology service to the service users of Tower Hamlets MHCOP and their carers. They will ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding the needs of people presenting to the service through advice, consultation, supervision, teaching and training of psychological research and theory.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an active member of Tower Hamlet's Mental Health Care of Older Adult's service including the centralised MHCOP inpatient wards and wider East London MHCOP Psychology and Arts Therapies professional group.
They will work closely with psychologists and other professionals in the team, maintaining a standardised approach to the assessment and care of Service Users with complex needs across community and inpatient settings. As part of this, they will contribute to the provision of a specialist psychological perspective for the work of the team, providing highly specialist psychological advice and consultation to other members of the team as well as consultation into the borough's residential and nursing homes.
They will be responsible and accountable for the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service for people with severe, complex and enduring mental health and dementia related difficulties and their families, presenting to the service and across community and inpatient settings.
They will develop working partnerships with other members of psychology services locally and across East London boroughs, relevant statutory and voluntary agencies, locality services and providers/commissioners as appropriate.
About Us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the 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.
Date posted
January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£70,387 to £80,465 a year Per annum pro rata inc HCA
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number
363-NEW6862891
Job locations
Robinson Centre, Mile End Hospital
Bancroft Road
London
E1 4DG
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person Specification
Education/qualifications/training
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
- Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees
- Relevant specialist training or qualifications, including-
- -Neuropsychology; assessment and rehab
- Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study or experience (or a combination of these) to an appropriate level approved by the Head of Psychology and demonstrated by certification, documented supervision logs, management appraisal documentation and/or assessment at interview
Essential
- Significant experience of work as a qualified Clinical Psychologist in NHS settings
- Experience of working in a mental healthcare setting with older adults who experience severe mental health problems and dementia including neuropsychology assessment and therapy with this client group
- Experience of developing and delivering highly specialist psychological interventions and teaching
- Work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
- Experience of working with couples, families and groups including attending to the psychological needs of carers of the service
- Use of psychological models for consultation with staff teams, notably relating to behaviours that challenge and trauma informed care
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Able to contribute a psychological perspective in work with other professionals
Essential
- Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, their families and carers
- Able to build good working relationships with other professionals
- Analytical & judgemental skills: Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
- Able to provide brief and longer term therapeutic interventions
Essential
- Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health dif
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