Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Older Adult Acute Pathway

As the Consultant Clinical Psychologist Lead you will be responsible for providing clinical, professional and strategic leadership in developing and maintaining systematic, high quality and comprehensive psychology services for older people within the acute pathway, and for professional and clinical leadership for the community Older People Psychology service in a locality. There will also be professional responsibility for locality Mental Health Liaison Psychology. You will be based in an inpatient service and work with the locality senior leadership team(s) and specialty clinical network to enhance and evaluate the psychological care offer for older people across acute inpatient wards, respite and urgent care services provided by the multi-professional workforce and in overall service planning and transformation across the locality and specialty. Providing training, consultancy, supervision and support to multi-professional staff, teams and managers will be essential, as will taking a
strategic and pragmatic approach to service evaluation, audit and research as partof on-going quality improvement. You will also provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention, and input to care and treatment planning and discharge planning for individual patients, working as part of the multidisciplinary team and as an autonomous specialist Consultant.

All applicants must be HCPC registered Clinical Psychologists with significant, relevant experience as per the job description and person specification.

CWP is an innovative and transformational all-ages mental health service provider. There will be opportunities to join internal and external professional and clinical networks, undertake research, and provide training and support to the next generation of psychology and mental health practitioners. There are strong connections to the three main DClinPsy regional training programmes (Liverpool, Lancaster andManchester). You will join the CWP Consultant Psychologists and Consultant Psychotherapists Group, a newly established, dynamic group with responsibility for developing and ensuring effective governance of psychological service provision across CWP. Clinical and professional supervision will be provided, and on-going continuing professional development supported.