Prinicpal Clinical Psychologist Older Peoples Mental Health

Job Description

The Principal Clinical Psychologist will be responsible for the delivery of a specialised Clinical Psychology service to older people referred via the multi-disciplinary East Dunbartonshire Older People’s Mental Health Service, across all sectors of care. You will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. You will work closely with another Principal Clinical Psychologist and clinical supervision will be provided by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.You will be a Clinical Psychologist with knowledge, skills and experience gained from working in with a variety of client groups, across the whole life course, presenting with the full range of clinical severity in a range of care settings; preferably with experience of working in specialist older people’s mental health services. You will have experience of undertaking clinical leadership roles within multi-disciplinary or multi-agency contexts; and providing consultation and supervision to colleagues on psychological aspects of care. You will be a member of the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Older People’s Psychology Service, which provides a highly specialist service to older people within the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde area. The mental health arm of the service is delivered through participation in Community Mental Health Teams for Older People around the health board area. The department also includes an Acute Hospital Liaison Clinical Psychology service for older people in acute hospital settings; a Rehab Clinical Psychology service for older people accessing physical health day hospital services; the GG&C Young Onset Dementia service; a Care Home Liaison Psychology Service in Glasgow HSCP; the OPTIMAL Team, tasked with widening access to evidence-based PI/PTs across GG&C; and an In-patient OPMH Psychology Team. You will be a member of this psychology department and will deliver a Clinical Psychology service to older people following referral by colleagues working in Older People’s Services in East Dunbartonshire HSCP. Professional leadership is via the Older People’s Psychology Service and the Psychology Directorate; with operational management provided through the East Dunbartonshire OPMH Service. It is essential that you have a Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. You should currently be registered with the HCPC.Please note that, using our agreed NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Older People’s Psychology Service Preceptorship process we can consider applications from candidates eligible for appointment at Band 7. If successful at interview, these candidates would be offered a Band 7 Development post, with a set of agreed objectives and a PDP constituting a development programme designed to assist them to develop the full set of competences associated with the Band 8a role. If you have any queries about this route into our 8a posts, please contact to arrange to discuss further.Informal Contact: Jacqueline King, Clinical Team Leader. Tel NoDetails on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs . (Please note the salary is Pro Rata) for part time hours.