Principal Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Are you passionate about improving the lives of older people?

We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Tavistock-based Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team. The role is half time (18.75 hours per week).

This is a great opportunity to work at the heart of a multidisciplinary team, delivering specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments, therapeutic interventions, and consultation for older people with complex mental health needs, and cognitive difficulties. You'd also play a key role in supervision and service development.

We offer:

• A supportive team that values psychological perspectives
• Opportunities to innovate and shape services for older people
• Support for CPD, supervision, and career development
• A workplace culture that values kindness and collaboration

Our friendly and active specialty spans community, inpatient, and memory services across Devon Partnership Trust.

Informal discussions are encouraged, please contact Dr Tamsin Fryer, Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

Please note that we will be holding the interviews as soon as possible after the closing date and may close early if sufficient applications are received - so please apply early.

If you're ready to bring your expertise where it truly matters, we'd love to welcome you.

The Clinical/Counselling Psychologist provides specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for older people presenting with complex mental health needs and cognitive impairment, including dementia.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering evidence-based psychological therapies tailored to older people
• Opportunity to conduct neuropsychological assessments and formulations, including in memory clinic
• Contributing to service development and audit
• Promoting psychological thinking across the MDT
• Supporting and supervising a Clinical Associate Psychologist
• Contributing to clinical placements for Trainee Psychologists
• Engaging in peer supervision and service development

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people within the post holdersspecialist field of practice.

This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:

• To ensure the systematic provision of ahigh quality psychological service in specialist field of practice, acrossidentified locality area, as a key component of integrated mental health andwellbeing services across Devon Partnership NHS Trust.
• Providing clinical leadership and supervision for less experienced staff, trainees and volunteers employed by orattached to the OPMH psychology service.
• Carrying a specialist caseload ofclients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients and professionals.
• To work autonomously withinprofessional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematicgovernance of psychological practice within professional and
  
  Trust guidelines as leadspecialist.
• The post holder with receive regularprofessional and clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy and Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Societyor appropriate designated Professional Body.
• Observe,and abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practice including the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fullyregistered with the Health Professions Council as a condition of employment

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