Job Summary
We are looking to recruit a Clinical Psychologist, line managed within the psychology service, based within our Older People's Community Mental Health Team (OPCMHT) and Memory Assessment Service (MAS) in Daventry & Towcester, Northamptonshire. Each OPCMHT is supported by a part-time Assistant Psychologist and has regular trainee placements.Our OPCMHTs offer psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people over the age of 65 years with dementia, as well as those experiencing distress from emotional disorders or psychosis. The MAS provides a diagnosis service for those who may have dementia and offers post diagnostic support. There are also opportunities to be involved in staff training, service development and case formulation with teams.The 4 OPCMHTs in the county work alongside the 4 co-located Memory Assessment Services (MAS), each of which has a full-time Assistant Psychologist completing extended cognitive assessments and a comprehensive group programme supervised by a Clinical Neuropsychologist, who works within our Younger People with Dementia service. The 2 psychiatric in-patient units & 2 general hospitals are based in Kettering and Northampton, and are each supported by a full-time in-patient Clinical Psychologist position.

Main Duties of the Job

• Offer assessment, formulation and intervention for a wide range of presentations using both individual, family and group approaches within both the MAS and OPCMHT
• Offer Case Formulation and training sessions for staff teams to extend psychological ways of working
• Offer enhanced neuropsychological assessment for more complex presentations
• Support the post-diagnostic support for people with dementia and their families across the county
• Supervise the Assistant Psychologist for the OPCMHT & MAS
• Collaborate in using outcome information to inform and develop good practice
• Contribute to service user forums and audit projects to collect data that can inform Trust management, commissioners, users and other relevant stakeholders of the needs of this population

About Us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job Responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Joining this service can offer: Supervision from the Principal Clinical Psychologist; Support to develop skills in supervision and teaching through joint supervision and lecturing for Clinical Psychology Trainees at both the University of Leicester and University of Oxford; Opportunities for innovative joint work with 3rd sector organisations; Training in Structured Clinical Management; Potential for training in other therapeutic approaches, such as EMDR; Links and participation in the BPS Faculty of Psychology for Older People (FPOP); The opportunity to work within a well-integrated Psychology Service that meets for monthly CPD, case audits and organisational support.

Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Doctoral level training in Clinical psychology
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Experience within the diagnosis of dementia
• Experience of providing post diagnostic support following a dementia diangosis for people with dementia and/or carers or relatives

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, e.g neuropsychology
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to utilise them to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team based working environment as well as with service users and their families/carers

Desirable

• Experience and ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

Behaviours and Values
Essential

• Demostrate passion for working with people over the age of 65
• Desire to improve services for local service users

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.

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