Clinical Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Dependent on expereince |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | Biggleswade / Clapham Bedfordshire, SG18 0PT |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7260342/363-BED7260342 |
Summary
Are you a creative, flexible and innovative Clinical or Counselling Psychologist looking for an exciting opportunity working on our Older Persons’ Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Memory Assessment Service (MAS)? We have a substantive 1 WTE working in Mid-Bedfordshire Older Adults CMHT and MAS in Biggleswade, and Bedford Older Adult CMHT in Clapham, Bedford. The post-holder will provide specialist psychological input, be interested in developing and delivering innovative approaches to the provision of psychology services in mental healthcare, and contribute to a positive holistic and person-centred culture within services using Trauma Informed Care ethos. The post holder will be part of a wider Older Person’s psychology team who are a supportive, compassionate and collaborative team. We particularly welcome people with an interest in service improvement. As a large Trust across we also have teaching, training and research links with local universities (UH, Bedfordshire, UEL and UCL).
We invite applications from those nearing or newly qualified. Newly qualified psychologists could be appointed at Band 7 preceptorship to work towards requirements for Band 8a, subject to satisfactory completion of the preceptorship. For any newly qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who have not met HCPC evidence of qualification by the start date we may appoint on a lower banding. Staff will be required to attain HCPC registration within 6 months of starting in post.
The post holder is responsible for the provision of specialist psychological input to Older People’s Mental Health Services in the Central Bedfordshire area, based at the Mid-Bedfordshire Older People’s CMHT and Memory Assessment Service based in Biggleswade and CMHT in Bedford.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
This role includes provision of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments, psychological formulations and delivery of highly specialist psychological interventions to service users in community, residential and inpatient settings. Service users seen by the post holder will include people who have experienced high levels of distress and complex mental health difficulties, and people presenting with distressed behavior associated with neurodegenerative disorders. Service users may present with a high level of risk to both themselves and sometimes to other people.
The post holder will also provide consultation to the multi-disciplinary community team and Memory Assessment Services in Bedfordshire and support in the development of care plans for service users. Supervision to Assistant and Trainee psychologists as well as Clinical Associates in Psychology forms an important part of the post. Contribution to service development initiatives, audit and research are expected as a senior clinician in the team. With guidance from the Older People’s Psychology Lead, the postholder will liaise closely with psychologists working in other Older People’s teams in Luton and Bedfordshire to develop and maintain a high standard of professional practice across the service.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Jun 2025