Job summary
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and inspiring HCPC Registered Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead psychological professions working in older adult services across the East London Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and City & Hackney. Mental Health Care of Older People (MHCOP) services includes CMHTs, diagnostic memory clinics and post-diagnostic support, and inpatient psychiatric wards.

The post is suitable for an experienced Psychologist who champions older adults and older adults' psychological needs across community and inpatient contexts. You must have an excellent understanding of working systemically across and within organisational boundaries. You must have experience of working with adults with complex mental health needs and from a range of religious, cultural, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds.

Main duties of the job

• Provide professional, operational and clinical leadership and management to the psychological workforce across older adult services, with strategic and managerial oversight and responsibility for effective, robust and culturally competent psychological provision.
• Monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of trauma informed, applied psychology and psychological therapies and interventions.
• Provide expert clinical input, leadership and consultancy within and across specialist older adults services and teams.
• Provide neuropsychological and psychometric advice, consultation and supervision creating opportunities for staff to develop neuropsychological skills.
• Hold a limited caseload of complex cases requiring specialised psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
• Oversee the conduct of research, quality improvement, service evaluation and audits relevant to Older Adults and Dementia psychological services.
• Contribute senior psychological professions representation at the Tower Hamlets Directorate Management Team.

About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8c
Salary: £88,250 to £100,355 a year per annum Inc HCA
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 363-NEW8334833
Closing date: 30 October 2026

Essential requirements

• Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology & HCPC Registration
• Completed training course in clinical supervision
• Relevant specialist post qualification training
• Significant experience in older adult and dementia services
• Neuropsychological and therapeutic assessments, interventions, supervision of others
• Application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Co-production with service users.
• Supervising qualified and unqualified psychological professionals and other staff
• Teaching, training, consultation to psychological professions and MDT relevant to MHCOP
• Highly developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients, including comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.
• Ability to interpret, report and respond to performance and outcome data at all levels of the Trust.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies across the lifespan in complex developmental trauma, and stigmatised individuals attracting diagnoses of e.g. complex needs, personality disorder, psychosis, dual diagnosis, persons with additional disabilities.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to later life mental health and dementia.
• Understanding of audit and clinical effectiveness issues.
• Able to work to professional guidelines and Trust policy.
• Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.

Desirable requirements

• Additional training in neuropsychological assessment, interventions and supervision of others.
• Management and/or Leadership Training
• Quality Improvement Training
• Reflective Practice and/or working with group dynamics training.
• Recruitment of psychology and psychological professions staff.
• Leading or contributing to research, audit, service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services that impact beyond own service area.
• Leadership and/or operational management roles
• Representing the profession in local policy/development fora.
• Representing the profession in National or Professional Organisations.
• Active research interests and record of published research.
• Training others in quality improvement

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. 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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer contact
For questions about the job, contact: Day Njovana, Tower Hamlets Borough Director, day.njovana@nhs.net, 02076554000

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