Looking for a new job for 2026 in a fabulous city? We have a new post within the Older Adult Home Treatment Team (OAHTT) for a permanent 8a Clinical Psychologist (0.8wte). OAHTT works with older people with serious mental illness (SMI) and/or dementia who are at risk of admission to mental health in-patient wards or who require support following discharge from wards.
The successful post-holder will work directly with older adults with SMI and/or dementia and their families; will provide consultation and formulations, particularly where there are issues of risk & complexity; will offer staff support & reflective practice; and will lead/contribute to service development initiatives.
As well as delivering a clinical psychology (both therapy and neuropsychology) service to service users within OAHTT, the post-holder will supervise psychological professionals and other members of the MDT.
As part of the Older Adult and Neurological Conditions (OA&NC) psychology department you will have access to strong psychology support and leadership. The OA&NC department are a group of psychologists working into a range of settings (older adult mental health, dementia, stroke, brain injury, long term neurological conditions), allowing you access to a wealth of experience (CBT accredited supervisors, neuropsychology supervision, EMDR trained psychologists).
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to service users of Older Adult Home Treatment Team. To provide specialist psychological assessment, including neuropsychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering highly specialised advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
To provide clinical supervision to less experienced psychologists, assistant(s), trainee(s) or other professionals. The postholder is responsible for the co–ordination and organisation of the work of other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically informed care and treatment.
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of
If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.
We are very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, including neuropsychological assessments, of service users referred to Older Adult Home Treatment Team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the person’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the person’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.
To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems, including older adults with serious mental illnesses and/or dementia.
To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.
