Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

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).

Main duties of the job

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oPost-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and BPS
• oRegistration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist
• oFormal training in supervision of other psychologists.

Knowledge

Essential

• oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• oWell-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• oSkills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Desirable

• oKnowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups: older adults with serious mental illness and/or dementia.

Experience

Essential

• oSignificant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• oAbility to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive
• oEvidence of being able to work effectively in multi-disciplinary settings and teams

Desirable

• oExperience of teaching and/or training
• oExperience of the application of clinical psychology/psychological therapy in different cultural contexts

Other

Essential

• oAbility to plan, prioritise and organise own workload and that of others
• oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain own clinical practice and to contribute to that of others

Closing Date: 11 August 2026