Band 7 Later Life Clinical Psychologist - Bristol

Job overview

South Gloucestershire Later Life Locality is committed to providing equitable psychological services for older people and people living with dementia, and their families, carers’ and communities.

We are looking for a clinical psychologist to provide highly specialist psychological assessment and interventions, improving access to psychological interventions for older people in line with the Community Mental Health Framework and NHS Long Term Plan for Ageing Well.

The post holder will have the opportunity to work across Later Life Community Services, predominantly based in the Specialist Care Home and Enhanced Dementia Support Team (SCHEDS) and Memory Service. There is an emphasis on working collaboratively with multi-professional colleagues to help to develop formulations and support staff to implement psychologically informed interventions for older people experiencing mental health distress and/or neurodegenerative conditions.

The post holder will be part of the South Gloucestershire Psychological Therapies Service and join a well established Trustwide group of Later Life Clinical Psychologist, which together support access to supervision and CPD. Newly qualified psychologist are encouraged to apply.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the development of equitable and evidence based psychological services within Later Life. This will include engaging in planning, developing and delivering individual and group interventions.

The post holder will also offer clinical supervision to trainees and assistant psychologists. Supervision, consultation, teaching and training of multidisciplinary professional within the service will be required.

The role will include consultation, teaching and training across services.

Expertise (and/or an interest in developing skills) in neuropsychological assessments and interventions will also be a requirement for this role.

The post holders will be expected to participate in evaluations, audits and research according to new developments.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder would provide specialist psychological input, including assessment and appropriate treatment interventions, to service users across our North Somerset later life community services. See Job Description attached to this post.

Person specification

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or soon to be awarded this)
• HCPC registered (or eligible for registration)
• Experience and interest in working with older adults
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams in secondary care settings

• Interest in carrying out neuropsychological assessments and remediation interventions
• Interest/experience of delivering psychological therapies for older adults
• Experience of carrying out audits, evaluations and research

Essential and Desirable

• Experience of working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues
• Use of evidence based therapeutic interventions

• Provision of clinical supervision/consultation to other professionals
• Interest in neuropsychology

This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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