Senior Clinical Psychologist

Hillingdon Older People's Mental Health Services are looking for a highly motivated and innovative HCPC registered Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologists working across two service areas, our Memory Service and Oak Tree Ward, our Older Adult acute mental health unit. Our well-established service works with people presenting with mental health needs, cognitive impairment, and very often, also living with physical health needs and frailty. We deliver services in a range of settings, including people's homes, care settings, and our acute inpatient ward.

In addition to the delivery of clinical services, there will be opportunities to work with service users, carers, other teams, and other partners to support service improvement and development work.

If looking to progress their career in a supportive and fully structured learning environment, we would welcome applications from current 3rd year trainee clinical psychologists and registered psychologists as a band 7 for a preceptorship role to 8a.

The preceptorship process has a set of individualised skill, knowledge, and experience competencies, which are developed based on an applicant's level of experience. We anticipate that applicants at band 7 moving to 8a in one to two years, based on previous experience and the completion of the agreed competencies.

We are also open to applications from HCPC registered psychologists looking for part-time roles in either the Memory Service or Oaktree ward., To provide a highly specialist psychology service to people accessing Hillingdon OPMH services including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.

To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in the mental health care of older people and people living with dementia.

To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.

To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.

To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

In addition to working with a great service user population in a great location, you will be joining an active and thriving, CNWL wide community of psychological professionals. We offer great opportunities for development, learning, and training. We are keen to work with you to identify your individual professional development needs and goals and support access to the resources and opportunities needed to achieve these. We also have a great network of psychological professionals working in older adult services, with more specific speciality based developmental opportunities and forums. For those who have an interest in leadership roles, we offer support to develop and hone your skills in this are too.

In addition to these developmental opportunities you will have access to high quality supervision, a generous annual leave allowance, and a generous NHS pension. We offer a relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.