Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist - Devizes

Job description

Job overview

This is a role for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist to lead and develop Later Life Psychology Services within Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. You will provide strategic, professional and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care for older adults across Wiltshire.

This role combines leadership with direct clinical practice, management and supervision of psychology staff, specialist supervision, and professional leadership to psychology colleagues across BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire. Alongside maintaining a specialist clinical caseload, you will offer expert consultation and advice to multidisciplinary teams, service users, carers, and partner organisations.

We are committed to supporting your professional growth and development. We provide opportunities for specialist clinical neuropsychology training, leadership training, training in Quality Improvement methodologies and model specific training.

Main duties of the job

As Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist, you will help to shape, develop and support the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based psychological care for older adults. You will lead service development initiatives that support the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan as outlined in the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults.

The post combines senior leadership with expert clinical practice. You will manage and support a team of psychology professionals and maintain a highly specialist caseload involving complex psychological and neuropsychological assessment, formulation and intervention.

You will play a key role in service improvement, quality assurance and clinical governance. The role also includes leading and supporting research, service evaluation and audit activities to promote innovation and improve outcomes for older adults.

In addition, you will contribute to workforce development through teaching, training and supporting the development of psychology staff, trainees and the wider multidisciplinary workforce.

Working for our organisation

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

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

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details of responsibilities of the role. Additional information about services is provided within the Local Information Sheet.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 1. Clinical Psychology qualification or doctoral equivalent AND Registered by the HCPC as a clinical psychologist
• 2. Relevant Specialist CPD qualification (diploma, advanced therapy training etc).
• 3. Advanced specialist qualification in neuropsychology or equivalent experience.

Desirable criteria

• Advanced specialist qualification in neuropsychology

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• 1. Minimum of 6 years post qualification experience
• 2. Experience in delivering and interpreting neuropsychological tests AND Specialist knowledge of psychometrics applied to an older adult psychiatric context.
• 3. Specialist clinical knowledge and skills: (i) Extensive knowledge of specialist assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions with client group (ii)Expert analysis and differential formulation of highly complex case information. (iii) Expert knowledge of one NICE recommended intervention
• 4. Supervision experience: with Trainee Clinical Psychologists and with other professions.
• 5. Experience of Lecturing/Teaching/Training Psychologists and other professions
• 6. R&D and Clinical audit work relevant to role

Desirable criteria

• 1. Service development/project work.
• 2. Ability to use computer spreadsheets for data analysis & software to perform specialist/ advanced data analysis of clinical data.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• 1. Effective team player, with excellent communication skills. Advanced skills at engaging with/communicating sensitively to clients who exhibit severe problems of interpersonal relating.
• 2. Well organised with good administration skills.
• 3. Empathy/engagement skills with the client group AND Ability to cope with the stress of working with a difficult, potentially hostile, emotionally and behaviourally disturbed client group.
• 4. Ability to cope with workload pressure/prioritise workload AND ability to work independently
• 5. Self awareness and emotional resilience; skills in personal supervision.

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. 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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