Specialist Clinical Psychologist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 25 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £62,785 pro rata per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 25 May 2024 |
| Location: | Wallington, SM6 0EX |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6262125/294-MHCA-6262125-JB |
Summary
We are seeking a highly motivated and committed individual to join the Sutton and Merton Mental Health Learning Disability Team. The role is a 3 day a week role and we can offer a hybrid approach to working.
You will be interested in working with external partners and be skilled at developing supportive networks. You will have energy, drive and enthusiasm for working with complex case load, delivering assessments and intervention which require clear communication across all agencies.
You will part of an established and highly supportive MDT which includes Nurses, Recovery Support Worker, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Psychiatrists.
There will be opportunities to lead in service development and shape the psychology provision within the service. You will be actively supported to pursue wide ranging CPD opportunities and to collaborate with colleagues across SWLSTGs Neurodevelopmental Services.
The service would welcome discussions with candidates interested in Band 7-8a Preceptorship opportunities
We offer in service training and development opportunities such as:
• Beginners and Intermediate Systemic/Family Therapy training delivered via highly experienced and skilled trainers/clinicians in the field of systemic work.
• Specific CPD for psychologists delivered by internal external experts, ‘Compassionate Leadership in the NHS’ and ‘Formulations around self-harm’.
• PTSD training delivered via a Consultant in PTSD and CPTSD.
You will have excellent written and spoken communication skills, an ability to work sensitively and thoughtfully with indivudals and their carers often around challenging and complex presentations. You will:
• Be responsible for providing a specialist clinical psychology service to adults with learning disabilities, including those with mental health needs and challenging behaviour, within the multidisciplinary team.
• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients. This will involve undertaking direct assessment and intervention with the client or indirect assessment, monitoring and intervention with staff or carers. To offer psychological consultation, advice and expertise to non psychologist colleagues and to care staff or family carers.
• Work as an independent, autonomous practitioner with full responsibility for highly complex clinical work and to be accountable for all clinical decisions. To work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Be responsible for clinically supervising and managing the workload of assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists within the service, and other staff as appropriate. To act as research supervisor to trainee clinical psychologists if required.
• Use and disseminate research skills to carry out audits, service evaluations and research activities relevant to the service. To contribute to policy and service development changes within the area served by the team.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team. This is to include appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a range of sources including independent use and scoring of psychometric assessments (e.g. cognitive assessments and neurological assessments), clinical questionnaires, self-report measures and observations of clients’ behaviour. To undertake clinical interviews with clients (and carers) in order to gain a thorough and holistic understanding of client’s needs, current and past experiences
• To work as an independent, autonomous practitioner with full responsibility for highly complex clinical work
• To be accountable for all clinical decisions whilst following BPS and HCPC guidelines, including the obligation for continued supervision.
• To be responsible for undertaking highly specialist assessments for legal purposes, such as assessments contributing to parenting assessments, residency issues, consent etc, as appropriate.
• To formulate and implement plans for the highly specialised psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, based upon a thorough holistic assessment. The formulation should include consideration of the client’s presenting difficulties, personal, social and developmental history, strengths and needs, environmental factors, intellectual ability and level of social support and independence. To consider, evaluate and decide upon a range of interventions and theoretical models across the full range of care settings, including consideration of evidence of efficacy, and to decide upon the most appropriate intervention in liaison with the client or staff or carer.
• To be responsible for providing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for clients, including individual therapy, group and family/couple therapy, psychological advice, behavioural interventions and formal training to carers and other staff, working towards optimizing well-being for clients and their families. Therapies offered are based on different theoretical models/approaches depending on clients’ needs and based on best practice, including positive behavioural support, CBT and systemic models. To use specialist skills to tailor/adapt interventions to be appropriate to the client’s level of learning disability and presenting problem (e.g. depression, anxiety).
• To have full responsibility and autonomy for the appropriate assessment, formulation and intervention package provided for the client, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis. Within learning disabilities this is likely to involve liaison with an extensive network of mental health professionals, social care professionals, voluntary agencies and families.
• To provide expertise and highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To provide expertise, consultation and specialist advice to professional colleagues on the psychological assessment and treatment of people with learning disabilities and to promote a psychological perspective of their needs. To provide access, advice and consultation on psychological knowledge, research and research methods to other professionals in the team.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• To act as care co-ordinator where appropriate, including under the Care Programme Approach (CPA) framework, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client’s needs. This is to include co-ordinating the work of others involved with care, arranging clients’ care reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in care; and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
• To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of the client group to staff and agencies outside of the integrated team and StGeorge’s NHS Trust including advice, consultation and support to clinical staff in mainstream health services to enable them to offer best evidence based practice to adults with learning disabilities accessing their service. These may include organisations such as the local Mental Health Trusts, independent sector agencies and social services.
• To work with other disciplines and agencies, to provide a coherent and effective service for people with learning disabilities.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024