This consultant post leads the psychological workforce across older adult mental health services for East London NHS Foundation Trust, covering Newham, Tower Hamlets and City & Hackney. The work combines professional and clinical leadership, oversight of trauma-informed therapy standards, expert consultation and research and audit, alongside a limited caseload of complex cases. It spans community teams, memory clinics and inpatient wards, and asks for systemic working with adults from varied cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Candidates need HCPC registration and a professional doctorate in clinical psychology.
What the job involves
- Lead the psychological workforce across older adult services, with strategic, operational and managerial oversight
- Monitor and implement professional standards in trauma-informed applied psychology and psychological therapies
- Provide expert clinical input, leadership and consultancy within and across older adult services and teams
- Provide neuropsychological and psychometric advice, consultation and supervision, creating staff development opportunities
- Hold a limited caseload of complex cases needing specialised assessment, formulation and intervention
- Oversee research, quality improvement, service evaluation and audit for older adult and dementia psychological services
- Represent senior psychological professions at the Tower Hamlets Directorate Management Team
What’s required
Qualifications
- Professional doctorate in clinical psychology
- Completed training course in clinical supervision
- Relevant specialist post-qualification training
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration
Experience
- Significant experience in older adult and dementia services
- Neuropsychological and therapeutic assessment, intervention and supervision of others
- Working with adults with complex mental health needs across diverse cultural, religious, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds
- Co-production with service users
- Supervising qualified and unqualified psychological staff, and teaching, training and consulting to psychological professions and MDT relevant to MHCOP
Skills & knowledge
- Communicating highly technical or clinically sensitive information clearly, including reports and letters
- Interpreting and responding to performance and outcome data at all levels
- Knowledge of specialist psychological therapies across the lifespan, including complex trauma and stigmatised groups
- Knowledge of legislation on later life mental health and dementia
- Understanding of audit and clinical effectiveness
Other
- Working to professional guidelines and Trust policy
- Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals
Nice to have
- Neuropsychological assessment, intervention and supervision training
- Management or leadership training
- Quality improvement training, including training others
- Reflective practice or group dynamics training
- Recruitment of psychology staff
- Active research interests and published research
- Leading or contributing to research, audit or service development beyond own area in secondary mental health
- Leadership or operational management roles, or representing the profession in local, national or professional forums
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
