Clinical Psychologist, Older People's Liason Psychiatry

The post holder will work alongside an enthusiastic multidisciplinary team to:

• Offer assessment, formulation and intervention for a wide range of presentations
• Offer Case Formulation and training sessions for staff teams to extend psychological ways of working, including joint training within the Frailty pathway
• Offer enhanced neuropsychological assessment to support dementia diagnosis for older people with more complex presentations
• Build on systems and processes that support person-centred care for people with dementia at the general hospitals
• Support the development of a wider Health Psychology service & IAPT LTC for people within Northamptonshire, providing insights from work with older people within the general hospitals to shape the service
• Collaborate in using outcome information to inform and develop good practice
• Contribute to service user forums and audit projects to collect data that can inform Trust management, commissioners and other relevant stakeholders of the needs of this population
  
  We are looking to recruit a full-time Senior Clinical Psychologist or a more recently qualified Clinical Psychologist seeking a preceptorship role to join the North Liason Psychiatry for Older People within Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT). This service offers psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people over the age of 65 years with dementia, as well as those experiencing distress from emotional disorders or psychosis who have been admitted to the General Hospital.., NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.