About this role
Job summary
This is a senior, part-time psychology leadership role within the Hospital at Home Team for people aged 65 and over. The postholder will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, combining highly specialist clinical work with enhanced leadership, consultation and service-development responsibilities. The role will support the prevention of avoidable hospital admission by strengthening psychologically informed assessment, formulation, intervention and decision-making across the service.
Main duties of the job
- Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and brief evidence-based intervention for older people with complex mental health, cognitive and dementia-related needs.
- Provide senior psychological consultation to the Hospital at Home multidisciplinary team, including complex case formulation, risk assessment, risk management and care planning.
- Lead the development of psychologically informed practice across the service, ensuring that psychological perspectives influence clinical pathways, operational decision-making and service redesign.
- Provide clinical and professional leadership to psychological practitioners and contribute to leadership across the wider Older Adult psychology service.
- Lead reflective practice, consultation, teaching and workforce development for multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Provide supervision to qualified psychologists, trainees, assistant psychologists and other psychological practitioners, as appropriate to the agreed establishment.
- Lead or oversee service evaluation, audit, quality improvement and research activity, using outcomes and service-user feedback to inform development.
- Build effective relationships across Older Adult urgent care, community, inpatient, memory assessment and partner services to support integrated pathways for older adults and carers.
About us
We are a thriving and forward-thinking Older Adult psychology team here at BCHFT with a wide array of special interests and a commitment to growth through CPD.
A closely linked team of psychologists that work across all services within the Division including Community, In-Patient and Memory Assessment services across the 4 Black Country areas of Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Walsall and Dudley.
The role will be with in the newly formed Hospital at Home Team a creative and innovative team where you will provide supervision, training, reflective practice to multidisciplinary teams in addition to individual and group work with clients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- Be accountable for autonomous professional practice in delivering highly specialist psychological care to older people supported by the Hospital at Home Team.
- Undertake specialist psychological assessment using clinical interview, behavioural observation, psychometric and neuropsychological information, and multidisciplinary input.
- Develop and communicate complex formulations integrating biological, psychological, social and systemic factors.
- Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions tailored to individual needs and risk.
- Provide specialist advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment, safeguarding, cognitive impairment, behavioural distress and carer support.
- Work collaboratively with patients, carers and families, adapting approaches to meet individual needs.
Leadership and Consultation
- Act as the Principal Psychologist and psychological lead for the Hospital at Home Team.
- Provide expert consultation on highly complex presentations and support multidisciplinary decision-making.
- Lead the implementation of formulation-led, trauma-informed and psychologically informed practice.
- Ensure psychological perspectives influence service development, clinical governance and operational decision-making.
- Advise senior clinicians and managers on clinical risk, workforce development and service improvement.
- Represent psychology within relevant professional, divisional and partnership forums.
Supervision, Teaching and Workforce Development
- Provide clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
- Lead reflective practice and consultation for multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Design and deliver training relating to psychological formulation, dementia, mental health, behavioural distress, risk management, communication and carer support.
- Contribute to the development of psychological capability across the wider workforce.
Service Development, Governance and Research
- Lead psychology input to audit, service evaluation, quality improvement and research activities.
- Develop and utilise outcome measures to demonstrate effectiveness and inform service development.
- Contribute to policy development, clinical governance, incident learning and implementation of evidence-based practice.
- Balance clinical responsibilities with consultation, leadership, supervision and service development within a 0.6 WTE role.
Person Specification
Essential
- Doctoral-level training in clinical, counselling or another relevant applied psychology discipline, or equivalent, accredited by the British Psychological Society.
- Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Minimum five years post-qualified experience as an applied psychologist practitioner.
- Evidence of substantial post-qualification specialist development relevant to older adults, complex mental health, dementia, neuropsychology, urgent care or leadership.
Desirable
- Experience of neuropsychological assessment and intervention.
- Experience in Hospital at Home, urgent care, admission avoidance or intensive community services.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Quayside House - Oldbury
Rounds Green Road
Oldbury
B69 2DG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)