We are delighted to advertise an exciting opportunity to take on an 8a role or a band 7 preceptorship within Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) Psychology in Leicester. This is a permanent role within our community service and is an exciting role for developing Psychology input to the Melton and Rutland Neighbourhood Team.
Main duties
- The post-holder will provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to patients and staff within the Melton and Rutland Neighbourhood Team.
- The post-holder will offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and where appropriate deliver psychological assessments (including neuropsychological assessment) and interventions; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the Trust policies, procedures and service priorities.
- The post-holder will manage and offer clinical supervision to less senior psychologists working in the MHSOP Inpatient Psychology Service.
- The post-holder will participate fully in multidisciplinary clinical teams, ensuring effective systems are in place for the management of referrals to the service and workload of team members to ensure timely and appropriate care is provided.
- With support of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist for MHSOP, to develop and provide innovative services to meet the psychological needs of patients referred to the service in accordance with evidence-based practice.
- The post-holder will be capable of conducting projects, working independently with only general briefings and working directly with senior managers.
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About The Trust
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered across more than 100 settings from inpatient wards to community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community and actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other relevant information can be found in the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed.
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