The Care Home Team is a psychology led service to support care homes in Bromley in providing the best possible care and support for older adults and their families residing in care homes who are experiencing behavioural and psychological symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) and severe mental illness (SMI).
The Assistant Psychologist will work as part of a small multi-disciplinary team under the supervision of the clinical psychologist. As a member of the Care Home Team, you will be providing training and on‑going support to nurses and carers in residential and nursing homes across Bromley.
The training and support focuses upon BPSD and severe mental illness (SMI) and promotes non‑drug person‑centred ways of understanding and delivering care. The team will manage referrals, complete specialist assessments and offer time‑limited interventions to individual care homes to reduce levels of BPSD, reduce the use of anti‑psychotic medications and admissions to hospital. This will require you to provide case management to individual clients as well as offer psychological input as part of the MDT to other clients.
Key Responsibilities
* To undertake psychological assessments of clients applying psychological theory, including neuropsychological tests; risk assessment; self‑report measures; rating scales; direct and indirect structured observations and semi‑structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist.
* To develop formulations and deliver therapeutic interventions involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems as part of a care plan, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
* To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic and/or psycho‑educational groups, training or clinical projects.
* To work with other staff to assess or support service users in care homes and other community settings and contribute to multi‑disciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision.
* To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
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