Principal Clinical Psychologist

• Maintain clinical psychology registration and adhere to professional and NHS codes of conduct.
• Ensure accurate, timely and professional clinical documentation.
• Comply with relevant Trust policies including confidentiality, risk management, infection control, safeguarding, health & safety, equality and diversity, sustainability and nosmoking policy.

• Provide advanced specialist assessments and interventions for older adults in the CMHT and Memory Service.
• Offer psychological perspectives and formulations to support multidisciplinary understanding and care planning.
• Manage a caseload with autonomous responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge.
• Provide expert consultation on risk, safeguarding, diagnosis and formulation.

• Support strategic and operational service development.
• Be responsible for governance of psychological practice and resources.
• Lead recruitment activities for psychology roles.
• Manage psychology therapy staff within the service.
• Provide leadership across multidisciplinary teams and external partners.

• Provide placements and supervision for trainee psychologists.
• Deliver training, consultation and supervision to multidisciplinary staff.
• Contribute to internal and external teaching programmes.

• Lead and participate in service audits, evaluations and quality improvement projects.
• Use research skills to support evidencebased practice.
• Support and advise staff undertaking research activities.

• Participate in appraisal, CPD and mandatory training.
• Demonstrate Oxleas organisational values (Were Kind, Were Fair, We Listen, We Care).
• Provide highquality customer care and maintain professionalism.

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Essential

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Leadership or management training
• Recognised supervision training

Essential

• Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with 2 years at a highly specialist level
• Experience working with a wide range of client groups across the life course and across all care settings (outpatients, community, primary care, inpatient, and residential), while maintaining professionalism in highly emotive, distressing, or abusive situations
• Experience exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a care coordinator and within a multidisciplinary care plan.

Desirable

• Experience of working in older people's mental health services, including people with dementia and their carers.
• Experience in neuropsychological assessment with adults with comorbid mental health/psychological needs
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (eg. Personality disorders, dual diagnoses, people with medically unexplained symptoms, people with additional disabilities, people with dementia, etc).
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.