Senior Clinical Psychologist - Development Role

Additional temporary hours may be available at band 8a within the Memory Assessment Service Pathway, with a focus on neuropsychological assessment. Main duties at 8a level: To contribute to the systematic provision of a high quality highly specialist clinical psychology service to Service Users within the Older Peoples Service across all sectors of care, predominantly working within the Younger People with Dementia Team but across the cognitive impairment pathway as required. Where necessary this will extend to carrying out neuropsychological assessments within other areas within the Trust, such as Working Age Adult services. To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the YPWD team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, psychological and neuropsychological tests. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a SU's dementia and/or mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the SU's problems. To be responsible for providing advice, consultation, supervision and teaching. To identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice within the YPWD team. To provide a key role in psychological aspects of service development of the YPWD team. To contribute to, and where appropriate lead on, the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice and to contribute and lead where appropriate to the development and articulation of best practice in psychological professions across the service. To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.