This development post sits in the Older Adult Community Mental Health Team for Preston, Chorley and South Ribble, within Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The core work is direct psychological therapy, complex case formulation and consultation with staff across the team. It suits a newly qualified psychologist seeking a preceptorship in older adults, or an experienced clinician, and includes supervising colleagues and offering trainee placements. Fit depends on a doctorate in clinical psychology, or an equivalent for those trained before 1996.
What the job involves
- Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients of the nominated team
- Offer advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues and non-professional carers
- Run psychology consultation sessions with staff
- Deliver direct clinical work
- Run formulation sessions and therapeutic groups
- Chair complex case meetings
- Deliver staff training
- Support staff well-being
- Supervise psychology and non-psychology colleagues when required
- Offer placements for trainee clinical psychologists
- Develop formal consultancy systems within the team under the Locality Professional Lead
- Use research skills for audit, policy and service development
What’s required
Qualifications
- BPS-accredited doctorate in clinical psychology, or equivalent if trained before 1996, covering psychopathology, psychometrics, neuropsychology, two or more therapies and lifespan development
- Postgraduate diploma-level knowledge in addition to an entry-level qualification
- Doctoral-level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Experience
- Specialist psychological assessment and treatment across outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
- Working with a wide range of patient groups across the whole life course, at the full range of clinical severity
- Handling highly emotive and distressing presentations, verbal abuse and threats of physical abuse with professionalism
- Full clinical responsibility for psychological care, including as a qualified care co-ordinator within a multidisciplinary care plan
Skills & knowledge
- Complex psychological assessment and intervention requiring sustained concentration
- Teaching and training others using complex multi-media materials for public, professional and academic audiences
- Identifying and applying clinical governance to support practice in the face of emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Communicating complex, technical or clinically sensitive information orally and in writing to clients, families, carers and professionals
- Providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups
Other
- Knowledge of legislation relevant to the patient group
- CPD log showing at least 40 hours a year, as recommended by the BPS
What’s offered
- Flexible working options such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time
- Wellbeing resources, tools and support in and out of work
- Preceptorship within a supportive team for newly qualified psychologists
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