Clinical Psychologist

About This Role

This role provides a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to an Older People's Mental Health (OPMH) inpatient unit and the Hospital at Home Team in Portsmouth. The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessment and therapy, as well as advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and carers. The work involves assessing, formulating, and treating behavioral and psychological symptoms in people with dementia and other mental health conditions, working autonomously within professional guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client's care
• Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings, including the behavior and psychological treatment of people with dementia
• Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group
• Contribute to the development, evaluation, and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation, and audit
• Utilize research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
• Undertake a personal research and development program and develop and encourage a research culture within the clinical team
• Demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients and their carers and the core values of the trust: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence

Requirements

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or DCounsPsy, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
• HCPC Registration
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, such as outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings