Principal Applied Psychologist

Job overview

8B Principal Applied Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling/Forensic)

26.25 hours

We are looking to recruit a practitioner psychologist to work within, and support, the older people's inpatient (mixed mental health and organic) ward.

The wider older people’s psychology team has experienced significant investment, and this is an exciting time to join RDASH. We are looking for an experienced, resilient and reflective applied psychologist who can work with enthusiasm and versatility. We are especially looking for someone who has experience of working within an inpatient service and is keen to support the already successful integration of psychology within the older people’s pathway.

Part of your varied role will be to assess and formulate, to offer training, to deliver interventions and support others to deliver intervention plans, and to promote and support the continued development of Clinical Psychology. This role involves working alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and, where appropriate, to share supervision responsibilities for the wider older adult’s psychology team.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

• To provide psychological assessment of highly complex mental health and/or organic conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from a variety of sources.
• Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist formulations, care (individual and group) or treatment plans, to inpatient clients with complex psychological/mental health conditions/complex trauma, and/or a diagnosis of cognitive impairment.
• To provide clinical supervision to junior psychologists and offer training, learning opportunities, formulation sharing, consultancy and reflective practice to non-psychological colleagues across the MDT ward team.
• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
• (Where appropriate) to undertake formal research / service evaluations and to act as field supervisor for doctorate clinical psychology trainees.
• To be pro-active in continual service improvement, focusing on older adult needs and acute pathways.
• To promote, at all times, a positive image of people with mental health difficulties, the psychology service and wider Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role.