Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic and creative service for older people and to be part of a psychology team comprised of 19 clinical and assistant psychologists. Specialist interests in the service include systemic work with older people, CBT, neuropsychology, working with carers and service user involvement.
To provide a psychology service to clients of Camden and Islington’s Care Home Liaison Teams (CHLTs) in Services for Ageing and Mental Health; providing psychological assessment and treatment and offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to referrers, non-psychologist colleagues and other professional and non-professional carers.
The postholder will lead on delivery of psychological interventions within the CHLTs, providing assessment and treatment to patients, and consultation and training to staff, in residential and nursing homes in Camden and Islington. The post holder will clarify the needs of patients and staff, shape how the service is delivered and evaluate its effectiveness.
For an informal discussion please contactAlison Milton(020 7561 4227)[email protected] Psychologist for Services for Ageing and Mental Health.
We are looking for a part time Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in Camden & Islington’s Care Home Liaison Teams (CHLTs) in Services for Ageing and Mental Health. The post holder will lead on delivering psychological interventions within the CHLTs - providing assessment and treatment to patients and consultation and training to staff in residential and nursing homes.
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital. We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston. Our trust is also a member of University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world’s leading academic health science partnerships. In addition we have specialist programmes which provide help and treatment for: veterans living in London, young people caught in the cycle of gang culture, older people living with dementia and other age related mental health conditions. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.candi.nhs.uk/
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Please see attached job description and person specification for more details about the roles and requirements of the role .