Job summary
If you're passionate about working with older people, and keen to support strategic developments in trauma informed, older adult centred, and dementia friendly practice on wards, this maybe the role for you! We are excited to be able to advertise this Consultant Clinical Psychologist role within our older adult inpatient mental health wards; having recently redesigned our workforce model, in line with ACP-UK guidelines about inpatient mental health services, we are working towards being able to staff that model fully.
This is a 0.4 WTE Consultant Clinical Psychologist role across the inpatient wards for older people. You will join our supportive Inpatient and Urgent Care Psychological Services team which is part of the wider Inpatient and Urgent Care sub-directorate. You'll work alongside another Consultant Clinical Psychologist who also oversees parts of the older adult service and you'll be encouraged to develop and nurture areas of interest as well as developing a team of psychological practitioners.
Main duties of the job
Using your expert knowledge and skills relating to older people you will provide leadership, consultation, and supervision for colleagues working with mental health inpatient services for older people. You will be responsible for the governance of psychological interventions and provide expert psychological advice to senior management both about psychological services but also the wider inpatient teams. You will hold responsibility for a range of senior and junior psychological professionals across various specialties as well as managing your own clinical caseload.
There are four wards for older people and we anticipate that the successful post holder would provide strategic oversight and governance for up to three of these wards. Please get in touch to find out more!
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role requires highly developed communication skills, being authentic and truly engaged with multi-professional team working, respecting others and excellent relationship building skills, and additionally offers back much satisfaction and a chance to make a tangible difference to the lives of older people experiencing challenges which require an inpatient mental health admission. Inpatient services are currently engaged in a 3 year transformation programme focusing on purposeful admissions, increasing therapeutic interventions and proactive discharge. This offers an opportunity for development of new models and to contribute to effective and compassionate admissions - we'd love for you to join this exciting piece of work to ensure we are fully inclusive of the needs of older people in the region.
Under the professional leadership and operational management of the Directorate Lead for Psychological Services and Professions, and working closely with operational leads in the service, this role will provide clinical psychological leadership and governance for Mental Health Inpatient Services for Older People.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role requires highly developed communication skills, being authentic and truly engaged with multi-professional team working, respecting others and excellent relationship building skills, and additionally offers back much satisfaction and a chance to make a tangible difference to the lives of older people experiencing challenges which require an inpatient mental health admission. Inpatient services are currently engaged in a 3 year transformation programme focusing on purposeful admissions, increasing therapeutic interventions and proactive discharge. This offers an opportunity for development of new models and to contribute to effective and compassionate admissions - we'd love for you to join this exciting piece of work to ensure we are fully inclusive of the needs of older people in the region.
Under the professional leadership and operational management of the Directorate Lead for Psychological Services and Professions, and working closely with operational leads in the service, this role will provide clinical psychological leadership and governance for Mental Health Inpatient Services for Older People.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the HCPC in Clinical Psychology.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the designated services
- Post-doctoral training relevant to the post.
- Extensive experience of team working.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of clinical leadership and service development.
- Extensive experience of working with adults with mental health difficulties and those experiencing mental health crises.
- Extensive experience of delivering highly specialist services.
- Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the HCPC in Clinical Psychology.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the designated services
- Post-doctoral training relevant to the post.
- Extensive experience of team working.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of clinical leadership and service development.
- Extensive experience of working with adults with mental health difficulties and those experiencing mental health crises.
- Extensive experience of delivering highly specialist services.
- Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
