Job summary
We are seeking to appoint a Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist to lead the Older Adult Psychology Team in Northumberland. The Psychology Team work into the Community Treatment Teams and the Memory Service, and have a number of roles in service development and research for the pathway as a whole.
This post would have responsibility for the Professional Leadership of all Psychology staff, and would be an integral member of the Older Adult Leadership Team, driving service development and continuous improvements.
As a Consultant in Older Adult Community Services, you would be working closely with the Associate Director of Psychological Services for North Community to consider the development of the Psychology workforce in the context of Community Transformation and the NHS Long Term Plan.
There is a strong network of Older Adult Psychologists in the Trust, including a Consultant Psychologist peer group and a Trust Wide Older People's Strategic Clinical Network. T
The services are very proud of their commitment to continually strive to improve the quality of the care provided to service users and carers. As an organisation we have a strong record in being trail blazers in elderly care and research and are keen to appoint someone who is passionate about innovating services whilst delivering the highest quality, compassionate, person centred care possible, as well as supporting the wider MDT and profession.
Main duties of the job
This post will have 2 days a week as Professional Lead for Older Adult Psychology, which will include the Professional Leadership of all psychology staff, responsibility for recruitment, managing resources, and ensuring access to appropriate supervision and CPD for staff.
You will also be working closely with the Older Adult Leadership Team to support the delivery of safe and effective services, and drive research and service development.
You will be responsible for co-ordinating Trainee Clinical Psychology placements and for providing teaching to the Newcastle Doctorate course in line with your own specialist areas in Older Adult Psychology.
There will also be 2 days per week undertaking direct clinical work with complex mental health problems across the Northumberland Community Treatment Team and neuropsychological assessments in the Northumberland Memory Service.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A detailed job description and main responsibilities for the role are in the attached documents.
We are inviting applications from experienced Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, or Psychological Therapists who fulfil the essential criteria in the person specification and have significant experience in Older Adult Services.
It is essential that the candidate has significant neuropsychological experience, including the supervision of others completing neuropsychological assessments as this is a key role of the postholder. They should also be competent and confident working with older and younger people with dementia as well as older people with mental health difficulties and complex trauma as they will have responsibility for direct clinical work and supervising staff across the pathway.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 5th October 2023
Closing date : 22ndOctober 2023
We welcome your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A detailed job description and main responsibilities for the role are in the attached documents.
We are inviting applications from experienced Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, or Psychological Therapists who fulfil the essential criteria in the person specification and have significant experience in Older Adult Services.
It is essential that the candidate has significant neuropsychological experience, including the supervision of others completing neuropsychological assessments as this is a key role of the postholder. They should also be competent and confident working with older and younger people with dementia as well as older people with mental health difficulties and complex trauma as they will have responsibility for direct clinical work and supervising staff across the pathway.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 5th October 2023
Closing date : 22ndOctober 2023
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.
- HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
Desirable
- Qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Non-medical approved clinician
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
- Substantial further specialist training and experience, equivalent to at least 6 years' experience, including being able to demonstrate further specialist training and experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counselling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months or an alternative agreed by the Psychological Services Professional Lead.
- Substantial post qualification experience of delivering evidence based psychological therapy training to a range of professional groups.
- Substantial experience of providing clinical supervision.
- Experience of contributing to strategic clinical or organisational development and/or service development or service redesign.
- Specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups relevant to the community pathway, e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariable data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of leading R&D programmes.
- Experience of professional management.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Specialist skills in evidence based psychological interventions and in adapting interventions to individual complex needs and complex systems , including people with disabilities.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Specialist teaching & training skills.
- Specialist skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in strategic/organisational work and service development / redesign.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
- Substantial skills in research and/or audit
- Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
- Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through self-management and use of the clinical supervision process
Role/Team specific requirements
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure of highly emotive behaviour.
Role/Team specific requirements
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of psychological services and the profession of clinical and counselling psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society.
- HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
Desirable
- Qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Non-medical approved clinician
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
- Substantial further specialist training and experience, equivalent to at least 6 years' experience, including being able to demonstrate further specialist training and experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counselling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months or an alternative agreed by the Psychological Services Professional Lead.
- Substantial post qualification experience of delivering evidence based psychological therapy training to a range of professional groups.
- Substantial experience of providing clinical supervision.
- Experience of contributing to strategic clinical or organisational development and/or service development or service redesign.
- Specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups relevant to the community pathway, e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariable data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of leading R&D programmes.
- Experience of professional management.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Specialist skills in evidence based psychological interventions and in adapting interventions to individual complex needs and complex systems , including people with disabilities.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Specialist teaching & training skills.
- Specialist skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in strategic/organisational work and service development / redesign.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
- Substantial skills in research and/or audit
- Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
- Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through self-management and use of the clinical supervision process
Role/Team specific requirements
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure of highly emotive behaviour.
Role/Team specific requirements
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of psychological services and the profession of clinical and counselling psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
