Clinical Psychologist

The post holder will carry out psychological assessments (including neuro-psychological assessments), deliver specialist psychological interventions and provide supervision to junior members of Psychology Staff including Assistant Psychologists, Mental Health & Well-being Practitioners and Trainee Clinical Psychologists. The post holder will often be required to work alongside colleagues from other agencies including Care Homes, Primary Care, Social Care, Physical Health, Voluntary Sector partners and the wider secondary mental health services. The post holder will have access to supervision from a Principal Clinical Psychologist and line management from a senior nursing colleague. They will be offered training and CPD opportunities within the mental health trust., You will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to older people and people with dementia and their families, across the memory assessment, community dementia and older adult mental health pathways.
Your role will include provision of specialist psychological assessments (including neuropsychological assessments) of people with complex presentations
You will be required to offer psychological interventions, adapted to meet the needs of our client group.
You will provide psychological interventions to support with the care of people that demonstrate behaviours that indicate distress.
You will offer psychological formulations within a team setting.
You will offer supervision to junior members of our Psychology Team, including Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Mental Health Well-being Practitioners
You will offer training to MDT colleagues and support with service evaluations and audits.
The post holder will have access to supervision from a Principal Clinical Psychologist. They will be offered training and CPD opportunities within the mental health trust.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.
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NHS AfC: Band 8a
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services