Clinical Associate Psychologist, Community

Clinical Associate Psychologist, Older People Community

If you are passionate about supporting the mental health of older people and are interested in working with people of all ages with dementia or other neurological conditions, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Qualified
Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP) to join the Older Persons' Community Service based in Ipswich. If you feel enthusiastic about service user and carer involvement in service development and enjoy delivering psychologically informed individual and group interventions, we would like to hear from you.

The successful applicant will join our professional and friendly multidisciplinary team. We are proud to say that our team's high standards of care attract positive feedback from our service users and carers on a weekly basis and Community Older People Teams in our Trust are consistently rated as 'Good' by CQC. Would you like to do a job that makes a difference every day, using your skills, experience, and compassion with older people and people of all ages with dementia?

Then join us.

The post holder will need experience in completing assessments, running groups and delivering mental health interventions in person. They will also be required to support and work collaboratively with our colleagues within the CMHT's along with and the other organisations and allied teams in our care group.

As a Clinical Associate in Psychology, you will alongside the existing Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Psychological Therapists and the wider multidisciplinary teams. The team are experienced and very supportive and collaborative, and your views and contributions will be welcomed and supported. Your duties could include:
The provision of psychological assessment, formulation, individual and group interventions, for older people and people of all ages with a dementia.

Working closely with qualified Clinical Psychologists to set up clinical pathways. Undertaking appropriate clinical work under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist. Ad-hoc assessments alongside the clinical psychologists observing older people at home and in care settings.

It will involve structured information gathering from older people/relatives/carers/care staff including life histories using service proformas. Including active participation in multidisciplinary case discussion and formulation meetings. Involvement in development of policies and project work and data gathering for audit and research purposes link. This an exciting time to join the team as we continue to grow and develop to deliver a high-quality mental health service for older people in the East Suffolk area.

Your experience, compassion and enthusiasm could be just what we need.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

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• Masters Clinical Associate in Psychology qualification
• Registered on the BPS Wider Psychological Workforce register as an Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP)

• Relevant supervised experience of delivering psychological assessments and interventions in [setting/service user group relevant to their specific scope of practice]
• Experience of working in a setting with Service Users presenting with moderate to severe mental health difficulties
• Relevant CPD as required by the BPS.

• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to build rapport, communicate
• Skills in managing time and workload in the context of multiple competing demands.

• Masters level knowledge of psychological theory and research, including psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation.

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