Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist inLlandough inLlandough PUBLISHED
WED 9 OCT 2024
This position requires a psychologist with a keen interest in clinical health psychology, particularly concerning older adults who face complex mental and physical health challenges. The role not only involves direct clinical work but also supports service development, teaching, and consultation. The successful candidate will join a supportive psychology directorate that prioritizes professional development and training opportunities, while the ability to speak Welsh is considered desirable.
There is an exciting opportunity for a practitioner psychologist to work in a band 8b role in the Liaison Psychiatry for Older People (LPOP) service. The LPOP team work at the interface between medical/physical health and mental health. They offer assessments and interventions to people with mental health needs on medical wards across University Hospital Llandough (UHL) and University Hospital of Wales (UHW) and work closely with medical and nursing teams.
This post would be well suited to a psychologist with an interest in working with clinical health psychology presentations and with people in their later life who require complex formulation around physical and mental health. There are opportunities for the psychologist to be offering psychological and cognitive assessments.
The successful candidate will play an important role within the LPOP leadership team alongside the Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Lead and Clinical Lead and will help in supporting this proactive team with service development and improvement endeavours.
The successful candidate will offer psychological input to the LPOP team in the following ways:
Direct clinical work
- Offering psychological and cognitive assessment, formulation and brief psychological intervention where relevant
- Joint working with Occupational Therapist, Specialist Liaison Nurses and/or Consultant Psychiatrist/medical colleagues, all of whom work within the LPOP MDT.
Indirect clinical work
- Complex case discussion and team formulation
- Working closely with the clinical lead and team lead to offer teaching and training to the LPOP team and ward teams where relevant
- Offering informal team consultation regarding complex presentations
- Supervision of the Assistant Psychologist
- Supporting with service development and improvement projects
The successful candidate will be a member of the Older Adult Psychology which has psychologists and therapists working across a range of different areas including Dementia services (including the Memory Team and the Young Onset Dementia service), Mental Health Services for Older People, Elderly Care Assessment Service and Parkinson's and Movement Disorder service, Stroke Services, Neuropsychiatry and Care Home Liaison.
The specialty is part of a large and progressive health board wide Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies. Continued professional development is strongly encouraged and supported as is excellent opportunity for supervision and training.
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The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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